#Intro
As a systems engineer you will work with a small DevOps team supporting existing systems, and helping to build and deploy new ones. We are a Linux server environment operating mostly in VMs.
#Responsibilities:
Help support a production stack that supports scalable, stable, and fast back-end services.
Develop a deep understanding of dependencies within our infrastructure, so that you can help avoid and mitigate security, reliability and performance exposures.
Communicate the design and operation of the production environment to non engineers.
Own back-end services like our databases, and server side applications as well as front-end services like web based end user tools, infrastructure components like RabbitMQ, and everything in between
#Requirements:
Extremely sound knowledge of UNIX (Linux) and TCP/IP network fundamentals
Sharp and tenacious troubleshooting skills: you can fix anything
Experience supporting live production infrastructure, can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong.
Good knowledge of basic large-scale internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP,) even if you haven't worked on one
Configuration and maintenance of common applications such as Apache, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS
Solid understanding of SQL, relational (e.g., Mysql) databases
#Bonuses
Familiarity with NoSQL technologies like Redis, CouchDB, Cassandra.