Staff Systems Engineer

Description:

What you get to do in this role:

• Develop with Puppet, Python, and Golang in order to build web a configuration management pipeline that is safe, fast, and observable.
• Manage a large-scale hybrid cloud of bare metal and VMs.
• Work as part of a team that writes, reviews, and deploys everything as code.
• Write test plans and test automation for declarative infrastructure in multiple cloud environments.
• Build orchestration workflows by leveraging features of the ServiceNow platform.
• Research and implement new open-source and commercial tools, technologies and methodologies.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Has experience operating bare metal Linux servers at scale in a production environment, using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Can research best practices and help maintain and promote high standards for development.
• Has a deep understanding of Linux servers and their components, including networking, storage, and software packaging.
• Can document and communicate systems architecture.
• Is comfortable with their ability to design, write and debug code in a team setting. You should also have experience writing test specifications and understand the fundamentals of test automation.
• Has experience with a variety of open-source tools used in the operation of a production computing environment.
• Can figure things out – you’ll be working with a wide variety of systems technologies. There is plenty of help, but to be successful you will need to be capable of digging deep into internals of DevOps tools.