System Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:
Work closely with development teams to integrate their projects into the production environment and ensure their ongoing support once there.
Gain a deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design.
Be a DevOps champion - work closely with other internal teams to build security, reliability, and scalability into the development lifecycle.
Dive deep into the software stack to troubleshoot as needed.
Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications in the production environment
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment and operations
Build from the ground up reliable infrastructure services to deliver highly scalable services
Work with a team of peers who are smart, professional, pull their own weight, and share a passion for what they are creating.
Collaboratively provide expert system administration skills and knowledge to internal groups, clients and third-party partners.
Provide on-call availability as and when required.

A few examples of technologies we work with on a daily basis include:
AWS
Apache
MySQL
Chef
git
Jenkins
JIRA & Confluence

Required Skills and Experience:
3 to 5 years of Unix/Linux administration and experience with Windows 2008R2 / 2012
Very strong scripting and automation skills – you believe you can automate everything
Solid experience and background working with AWS services (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, Cloud Formation, RDS, SQS, etc…
Proficiency with the AWS CLI.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code
A solid Ops foundation - you’re always thinking “What happens if this fails ” when you build things
Experience working in an iterative based development environment using Agile/SCRUM
Familiarity with build & release automation tools and methodologies like Jenkins.
Strong personality capable of leading and communicating effectively with subject matter experts across a wide range of specialties and companies
A clear thinker, demonstrating meticulous attention to detail who can operate independently
Experience with Docker or ECS and MySQL or PostgreSQL are preferred