Systems Engineer, Development Operations (LA)

LOCATION: Rubicon Project HQ (West LA)

We are seeking a seasoned web operations engineer with developer background to join our ops team, to help build and automate Rubicon fast-growing infrastructure. You'd be on a team of infrastructure experts, working extremely closely with Rubicon Engineering to come up with solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to tie the operations tool chain to an automated front end framework
• Building and maintaining Rubicon infrastructure, from installed iron to production
• Taking part in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care Requirements
• Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.)
• Experience in systems programming and general scripting tasks (perl, bash, php, python, etc.)
• Experience with high-volume web applications
• Experience with multi-datacenter architectures, global fault tolerance, and CDNs
• Experience with fault-tolerant replication strategies
• Experience with Hadoop
• Experience working with customizing network management systems and monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Graphite, Cacti, Graphite etc.)
• Strong understanding of web application architecture, including TCP/IP and HTTP, and caching strategies at all layers
• Support of software engineers and their development environment and code repository (Subversion), including code deployment to production
• Enterprise experience with internal core systems, such as but not limited to DNS, LDAP, NTP
• Experience with data center management, including strong knowledge of power, space, and cooling issues
• Experience with credit card gateways and PCI compliance issues
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bonus:

• Experience in a "continuous deployment" environment
• Experience with managing the infrastructure for a growing open API
• Database query optimization
• Hands-on network security tasks, including VPNs/firewalls configuration
• Network experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VLAN, PVLAN,Spanning-Tree, MSTI
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby

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