comScore is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join its world-class Platform Services Engineering team within IT Operations. The right candidate will provide essential support for comScores critical internal infrastructure, utilities and core services. They will work with development and business assets throughout the company in order to gather requirements, provide advice, and assist in implementation of software services.
What You’ll Do In This Role:
Perform day-to-day system administration duties on Linux servers and PaaS / SaaS services across comScore’s environments, supporting business-critical systems
Respond to and resolve incident tickets and monitoring alerts
Automate common procedures used to resolve incidents and monitoring alerts
Standardize and document common procedures that can’t be easily automated for hand-off to other resources or teams for execution
Work with diverse teams to provide advice and assistance with budget estimates, tools choices, and to translate business needs to appropriate cloud native application design.
Participate in rotating 24×7 on call schedule of production systems
What You’ll Need In This Role:
Fluent in Python, Ruby, Go or similar languages for developing Linux applications
Fluent in the Linux command line and adept at system administrative tasks on Linux
Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc) is required
Experience with Amazon Web Services is required
Experience collaborating and managing source code with Git is required
Excellent oral, written and computer communication skills with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members in local and remote locations
Able to manage day to day tasks while fielding interruptions
Self-starter type of individual, willing to take on tasks and ask for help as needed
Able to work with various development teams to implement and assist with best practices
Desired Skills:
Familiarity with Continuous Delivery and software development / deployment concepts
Understanding of basic networking and common internet protocols
Amazon Certificationspreferred
