San Francisco - Systems Engineer - Triggit
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We’re looking for people to help join our small but mighty operations team. In addition the requirements below, we really want to talk to you if you can speak C or Golang or can explain techniques to work around the Dining Philosophers problem.
What you'll do all day:
Learn and manage our infrastructure and be able to report on it’s health
Provide daily reports and system updates to the engineering team
Work with configuration management tools like Chef
Document best practices and knowledge into the engineering wiki
A variety of other tasks
Requirements:
Must have 3-5 years of professional work experience
Comfortable with shell scripting basic automated tooling
Expereince working in a UNIX environment -- basic commands to sysctl tuning.
Comfortable with the following topics in a UNIX context:
forking
threads
BSD sockets
routing
firewalls, understanding the different styles and the advantages thereof
Basic knowledge of network and systems security
Able to manage hardware provisioning, networking architecture
Comfortable working with vendors both in a collaborative and a dependency context.
Capable of drawing up documentation on architecture
Ruby/Python/Perl application development experience is preferred
Chef 10.0+ experience
A provable RFC-comfortable understanding of the following protocols and services that provide them:
HTTP
DNS
SMTP
TCP and UDP
Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 Experience
Must be able to be on an on-call rotation of varying lengths and periods of time
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