Skills & Requirements

The right candidates will probably have a CS degree, solid scripting and automation skills, great troubleshooting skills across the OS and network, a good grasp on security concepts, experience with routing platforms and protocols, and enjoy working collaboratively.

Specific requirements include:

- Experience in automating tasks through scripting. You should be very well versed with Python, and probably a few other languages. We will ask for script samples.

- High degree of drive to improve and automate your environment with minimal guidance

- Be able to solve for immediate, and plan to accommodate for future problems

- Experience with Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or CFEngine. Experience with Ansible and Terraform preferred.

- Experience with build pipelines, integration testing and Jenkins.

- Experience administering a wide variety of *nix platforms, including multiple Linux variants.

- Solid understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols including IPv4/6, 802.1Q, BGP, MPLS, etc., and understanding a multitude of different network architectures.

- Experience with Google Compute, AWS, or other cloud based compute and database services.

- Understand the importance and implementation of backup and redundancy across many layers of databases, systems, and network configurations.

Some knowledge that would be a huge plus