Operations Engineer-Well-Funded Startup Job in San Mateo 94403, California US
Job Description
The ideal candidate has strong experience maintaining up time with production websites, Windows and Linux and system administration and familiarity with front-line web application support. The Site Reliability-Operations Engineer will play a key role in maintaining and expanding our hosted platforms. Responsibilities will include problem diagnostics, security functions, spinning up, managing and monitoring the cloud servers on a continual basis.
Primary Responsibilities
· Maintain uptime with Linux/Windows production systems
· Configuring and monitoring servers/applications ensuring reliability, high availability, scalability
· Quickly perform troubleshooting at various levels in the technology stack while maintaining composure during high stress situations
· Maintain and support backups, data redundancy and fail over protocol for systems
· Maintaining an on-call rotation, able to address problems remotely and in a timely and efficient manner
· Problem diagnostics, security functions, spinning up, managing and monitoring cloud servers
· Work well in a team setting and welcome input from team members
· Initiate and take ownership of work without requiring supervision
· Interact with management, upper level support, vendors and customers and be able to effectively communicate issues in a clear, straightforward manner
Requirements
· Minimum 3 years of experience with Linux/Windows production systems administration in a 24x7 environment
· Experience with scalable systems, monitoring tools and load balancers
· Excellent understanding of TCP/IP networking
· Experience with configuring load balancers, network routing (NAT, TCP/IP, firewalls, intrusion detection, networking services (DNS, DHCP, VPN)
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
· Linux and windows scripting experience
· 4 year University degree