Systems Administrator

The Position:

As a Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for the design, set up, and maintenance of the technology stack supporting our evolving cloud architecture. This position provides you with the opportunity to work with a small team focused on developing enterprise services using the latest technologies where your individual contributions will have a large impact. We are looking for engineers who move fast, can break down and solve complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done.

The successful hire will be located and work out of the Contour Software office, working as part of the resource-center team, as an extension of the division-based R&D department.

Responsibilities:

Work with team to architect scalable, secure, enterprise services

Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements for created services

Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, SDET, and DevOps Engineers

Provide ongoing management and support for production software environments

Tune application and environment monitoring ensuring uptime and site responsiveness

Manage Linux and related open source systems (apache, nginx, postfix, redis, postgresql, etc.)

Assist in iterative design, implementation, and management of environment build and maintenance procedures.

Develop tools and scripts to assist with routine maintenance tasks

Document work to be reviewed and shared with others on the team

Be willing to work off-hours when necessitated by business requirements or system failures.

Participate in oncall rotation for ongoing support of the application and related systems

Basic Qualifications:

5 years+ of professional experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available infrastructures

5 years+ of experience working with various Linux distributions (Red Hat/CentOS preferred)

2 years+ working with Kubernetes or docker containers including container registries

2 years+ working with Google Cloud Platform

2 years+ working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

Familiarity and operational knowledge of open source systems

Proficiency in scripting technologies desired (at least one of Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Bash)

Experience with monitoring technologies like AppSignal, New Relic, Splunk, etc.

Experience with orchestration technologies (examples Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins)

Working knowledge of HTTP and web applications

Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired:

Experience building and maintain Elastic Search clusters desired

Experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure (example GCP, AWS, Azure)

Exciting Benefits we offer:

Market-leading Salary

Medical Coverage – Self & Dependents

Parents Medical Coverage

Provident Fund

Employee Performance-based bonuses

Home Internet Subsidy

Conveyance Allowance

Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]

Life Benefit

Child Care Facility

Company Provided Lunch/Dinner

Professional Development Budget

Recreational area for in-house games

Sporadic On-shore training opportunities

Friendly work environment

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