We are excited to be creating a new engineering team to add to our current team of System Administrators! Today, our System Development work is done within our joint Web-Ops and Sys-Dev group, but we are now growing out the team separately to provide more resources for us to improve our products, offer new products, and continue to grow our customer base.<\/p>\n
We are looking for candidates passionate about hosting as a product, platform availability, and driven by the desire to build something better than what our competitors can put out. You must be analytical and have a strong engineering approach.<\/p>\n
Expertise in the following areas will make you a good candidate. Not all areas need to be specifically part of your experience, but a blend of this experience is required. Candidates will be based in either Virginia Beach, VA or Los Angeles, CA.<\/strong><\/p>\n Systems\u00a0Engineer I \u2013<\/strong> 5+ years as a System Administrator in a Linux Environment. Minimum of 1 year in the environments listed below. Occasionally rotation into the operational team with on-call responsibilities. Bachelor\u2019s degree preferred.<\/p>\n Systems\u00a0Engineer II –<\/strong> 8+ years as a System Administrator in a Linux Environment. 3+ years in the environments listed below and experience selecting hardware, tuning, and growing the platform. Bachelor\u2019s degree required.<\/p>\n Network Storage of various approaches including background in: Automated Deployments\/Management Systems of various approaches: System Design Background including:
\n\u2022Hardware vendors like NetApp\/EMC
\n\u2022Software solutions like Ceph\/Gluster
\n\u2022Large scale (100+TB) storage systems with different levels of performance\/cost
\n\u2022Strong understanding of files systems and storage approaches
\n\u2022Transport considerations like iSCSI, Fiber Channel, including appropriate server and network hardware
\n\u2022Designing for particular performance for services typically found in a web hosting environment<\/p>\n
\n\u2022Openstack
\n\u2022Puppet\/Chef
\n\u2022Virtualization including KVM, Xen, Virtuozzo\/OpenVZ, VMWare, etc.
\n\u2022Automated networking
\n\u2022Self created automation using shell scripts, python, Perl, or other backend programming.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022High Availability for a large number of virtual machines (1000+ for advanced levels)
\n\u2022Automated performance leveling\/multiple performance levels
\n\u2022Experience designing and building against requirements
\n\u2022Create standards and work with operational teams to implement and maintain standards<\/p>\n