Job Description
The successful engineer in this role will:
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- Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
- Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills.
- Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
- Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
- Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
- Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
- Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
- Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
- Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.
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Core Requirements:
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- In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment.
- Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
- Strong system troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting.
- Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.)
- Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls.
- Experience in building SQL queries.
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Highly Desirable Attributes:
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- Knowledge of C, C++ or Java.
- Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn).
- Understanding of AWS technologies.
- Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
- Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems.
- Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms
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This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to a Fortune 5 Client.
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The pay range that Tundra in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $67.69/hour - $76.71/hour.
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Tundra’s benefits offering includes optional medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, and a New Child Benefit.
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Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.