Senior DevOps/Systems Engineer

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech recruiting firm in Boston is seeking a DevOps/Systems Engineer to join their Infrastructure Team. You will support customer-facing web servers, manage continuous integration across virtualized hosts, and solve complex production issues. The ideal candidate has strong Linux administration skills, scripting experience, and a background in database engineering, with willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years supporting customer-facing web servers in production environments.
• Experience with automated provisioning and code management tools.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Manage continuous integration for virtualized hosts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues.
• Work on production-level problems and ship code.

Skills

Linux Systems Administration

Scripting (Bash, Ruby, Python)

Database Engineering (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis)

Configuration Management (Puppet preferred)

Monitoring/Performance Management

Problem Solving Skills

Tools

Git

Docker

Zabbix

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

We are seeking a DevOps/Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team at our downtown Boston office. We’re three strong now, and we’re really excited to be in growth mode. We run a big backup application in the cloud. We manage continuous integration to nearly 1000 virtualized hosts using various configuration management tech. We run Big Data. We solve big problems at big scale. Sometimes we’re cowboys, sometimes we’re sheriffs. You’re going to like working here.

Requirements:

• 4+ years supporting customer facing web servers and web sites in production environment
• Scripting and/or software development experience with at least one language (Bash, Ruby, Python, etc)
• Automated provisioning, configuration of many nodes with code deployment and configuration management tools (Puppet preferred)
• Strong experience in Linux Systems Administration and troubleshooting
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 on‑call rotation to respond to and resolve application issues to ensure SaaS applications are online. (It’s not that bad, trust us.)
• Strong background in Database Engineering (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis)
• Ability to pair with other engineers to dig into problems that occur in production and ship production code
• Experience with source code repositories (Git, Perforce, subversion)
• Experience with monitoring/ performance management of large scale cloud environments (zabbix, Graphite, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience running Ruby-on-Rails at scale
• Understanding of Docker and its applications
• Understanding and experience with code deployment and micro‑services
• Excellent problem solving skills, along with the ability to work independently, as well as part of a cross‑functional global team
• Ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Working knowledge of networking and security concepts
• Experience working with architecture or engineering disciplines