Chess.com is looking for someone who is passionate about building & managing infrastructure. We are looking for someone who has the deep experience of a traditional sysadmin, and also the future-oriented skills of managing in a cloud / Kubernetes ecosystem. Our team firmly believes in automating everything and building provisioning scripts to automate all our tasks. We are blending our existing bare-metal datacenter hosting with AWS/GCP for microservices and scaling, and need your help to make sure that we’re always up, stable and performant.

QUALIFICATIONS
– Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters
– Experience with AWS or GCP
– Particular experience with Terraform (we treat Infrastructure as a Code)
– UNIX/Linux generalist
– Experience building CI/CD pipelines
– Good understanding of modern monitoring & logging stack i.e. Prometheus, Cortex, EFK
– 2+ years supporting php/java, mysql, and redis
– Traditional sysadmin skills of building hosts, monitoring, and capacity planning
– Understanding of networking fundamentals, http, etc
– Comfortable with scripting
– Bonus: Experience with message brokers (e.g. Kafka, PubSub, Redis)
– Bonus: You are interested in building a hybrid on-prem/cloud Service Mesh

This is a REMOTE, FULL-TIME position open to anyone in the USA or Canada. You can learn more about us
here and here.