Triggit - Site Reliability Engineer - San Francisco - Full time
We have a full OSS stack as the backbone of our operations, including Chef and Linux. Tracking our latency, performance, and server availability is critical to our business. Our systems are handling large and ever increasing amounts of traffic, so experience with load balancers and techniques for distributing traffic are a must. Solid networking fundamentals, knowledge of how the Linux operating system provides access to networking resources to applications, as well as CPU/RAM/Disk resources, will be used daily.
What you'll get to do all day:
Build and improve automated monitoring systems for our platform
Write Chef scripts to support our deploy processes
Work with other Engineers to deploy services
Make Chef deploys to push out configuration changes to Linux servers
Respond to any events that occur properly and escalate correctly as needed
Why you'll love coming into work every day:
Chance to make a real and recognised impact across all aspects of Triggit's operations
Pushing the boundaries with cutting edge technology is encouraged
Requirements:
Must have 3-7 years of professional work experience
Experience with managing an always on, 24/7 platform, including on-call duties
Safety first attitude toward emergency response
Higher level scripting language knowledge, particularly in Ruby and Shell.
Chef 10.0+ experience
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