Job Description:
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Position: Service Engineer / Unix - Linux
Duration: Long term.
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Client: Confidential
Candidate can work as a RFT employee or as a Contractor through any employer.
Estimated length of project is two years.
Responsibilities:
Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of the assigned Clients Property
Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment
Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design
Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and generally improve the operability and maintainability of our systems
Identify and triage outages, monitor and remediate systems and network performance
Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
Function as a key member of a cross-functional team to address new product deployment, system performance, capacity planning and SLA compliance.
Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation
Perl
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus) and FreeBSD
- 5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (LAMP background a plus)
- 2+ years experience working with Apache
- 2+ years experience working with Nagios
- 2+ years experience working with a package management system (yum and RPM a plus)
- Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
- BS Computer Science
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