Enterprise Systems Engineer

Meta; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media company in London is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer. This role involves building and securing the Linux environment, automating infrastructure management, and ensuring high availability of services. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in systems engineering, familiarity with automation tools, and a strong understanding of Linux internals. The position offers opportunities to influence engineering practices and work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in systems engineering.
• 3+ years experience automating infrastructure management.
• Thorough understanding of Linux operating system internals.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and secure the Linux environment.
• Lead incident root cause analysis.
• Provide guidance on best practices.

Skills

Linux administration

Infrastructure-as-Code

Automation tools

Monitoring tools

Coding (Python, Ruby, Go)

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

Chef

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Summary:

Enterprise Engineering is at the heart of Meta. By transforming the way businesses function, we are helping to bring billions of people around the world closer together. The mission of the Enterprise Infrastructure & Security (EIS) team is to provide best-in-class infrastructure, data, and security services to Meta and its partners. This requires unconventional thinking and lightning-fast, modular solutions. We build enterprise products for Meta first.As one of the leading engineering teams in the enterprise world, our goal is to provide a solid foundation and platform for Meta businesses to build services and run workloads. As a Linux Systems Engineer, you will build the infrastructure for our high traffic, high visibility services. You will provide operational support for critical services that enable connected experiences found across Meta. We constantly review our processes, automate wherever possible, and develop our own toolchains when necessary. Join us and become part of a world-class team that allows Meta to deliver high quality services to its employees.

Required Skills:

Enterprise Systems Engineer Responsibilities:

1. Build, scale, and secure the Linux environment within Meta enterprise infrastructure, a heterogeneous environment containing varied operating systems and applications

2. Apply modern engineering methodologies such as Infrastructure-as-Code, container orchestration, and software-defined storage

3. Design & implement systems that are scalable, automated, monitored, and well-documented

4. Find ways to leverage the scale and complexity of the larger Meta production infrastructure to solve problems for enterprise customers

5. Lead incident root cause analysis through multiple infrastructure layers (compute, storage, network) and act as a final escalation point

6. Provide guidance to other engineers on best practices to build mature services which are highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable

7. Help others around you move faster by identifying issues and driving them to resolution

8. Influence outcomes within your immediate team, peer engineering teams, and with cross-functional stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)

2. 3+ years experience in systems engineering

3. 3+ years experience automating the management of infrastructure and services

4. 3+ years experience working with monitoring and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack, etc

5. 3+ years experience coding in at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, PHP, Rust, or Go

6. Thorough understanding of Linux operating system internals

7. Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities for the org, handing large projects simultaneously, and prioritizing team roadmap and deliverables by balancing required effort with resulting impact

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Prior experience supporting configuration management in a multi-region environment

2. Prior experience building services

3. Prior experience building PaaS or internal clouds

4. Prior experience with virtualization or container technologies

Industry: Internet