Senior Systems Engineer

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Detail information about job Senior Systems Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Amazing Company Culture 
• CBD Location
• Global Brand 

This role operates in a fast moving Agile/DevOps environment with a product and platforms that are growing and changing rapidly. You will be a critical team member in delivering the infrastructure and platforms with open source and cloud-based technologies. You will be experienced in bootstrapping infrastructure from scratch using AWS Cloudformation - creating performant, autoscaling and self-healing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a high volume transactional environment across both AWS and self-hosted Ganeti/KVM environments
• Work with Engineering teams to improve the operational readiness of product features.
• Be the gatekeepers of production, raise awareness of potential risks to production stability.
• Become part of a weekly based On-Call rotation with other engineers, responding to the occasional major incident that needs your help to resolve.

Profile:

• At least 4 years’ experience in a Systems Engineer role
• Experience in working with high volume transactional websites
• Strong Linux Systems Administration skills - RedHat, CentOS
• Application & Webserver skills – Tomcat/Java, Apache\Nginx
• Experience with AWS
• Scripting, Coding and configuration management skills with the likes of Puppet, Bash, Python
• Strong verbal and written communication skill
• Ability to work in a complex environment and handle dependencies across multiple teams
• A strong work ethic, the ability to keep complex tasks organised, and an amazing attention to detail

The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Linux server administration, networking, DNS; combined with being an automator by nature and be comfortable with scripting languages like Bash & Python.