Intermediate/Senior Linux Sysadmin

Kira Systems is looking for an intermediate or senior Linux System Administrator to join our Systems Team. Our ideal candidate would have good familiarity with technologies mentioned below, the drive to learn more about them, and some demonstrated ability to dig into ambiguous problems and find a solution.

The objective is to keep our servers and code running smoothly, this includes: availability, code deployments, automation, optimization, performance, change management, scalability, logging, monitoring, alerts, emergency response, capacity planning, security.

We also want someone for whom the idea of building automation is attractive — we have build a lot of it, and need to build more, and the ideal candidate would love to get their hands dirty with it.

Main Responsibilities:

• maintaining and monitoring our production and development environments

• supporting our infrastructure and application

• supporting client-hosted installations of our software

• documenting client questions and incidents

Personal Requirements:

• available during UTC business hours

• clean background check

• good oral and written communication skills

• a curious-minded and independent work ethic

• troubleshooting-oriented

• at least 5 years’ experience in relevant areas

Technical Requirements:

• experience in multi-server Linux systems administration

• strong knowledge of system security

• knowledge of AWS (EC2, Autoscaling, Route53, CloudFormation, etc)

• proficiency with RDBS and SQL

• proficiency with scripting for automating tasks (we use Python, Bash, Ansible, among others)

Nice to have:

• knowledge of VMware, Docker, RabbitMQ, and Zookeeper — we use these

• knowledge of SELinux

• knowledge of orchestration tools (especially Ansible)

• knowledge of Linux internals applied to troubleshooting or optimization

• experience with CentOS/Red Hat Linux

• experience with PostgreSQL

• experience with JVM-based languages (Clojure in particular)

• experience with highly-available systems in general

• experience building distributable virtual machines

• experience with logging and monitoring tools like Zabbix, ELK

• experience working remotely

• a university degree in computer science (or relevant field)

How to apply:

Does the above sound interesting? We’d love to hear from you. Be sure to send us a CV and a cover letter (really — we want to know why you’re interested in us, and what motivated you to apply). Email tokirasystems-krsy0946@applications.recruiterbox.com, and see kirasystems.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk06gnq to apply via the web.