[ALE-jobs] Linux Engineer (Amazon Web Services) 6-Month Contract-Perm - Smyrna GA

[Benton Watson]

Our client is looking for a systems engineer to join a fast paced dynamic
environment to build the next generation weather data platform. The systems
engineer will be responsible for designing and developing solutions for
infrastructure setup, configuration, automation and caching, primarily on
the cloud. This requires an excellent understanding of sound
application/infrastructure design, networking, application deployment and
management, server provisioning and maintenance, and platform automation.

The systems engineer will work closely with data systems
engineers/architects, performance/platform engineers and application
developers/architects. The systems engineer will be responsible for the full
deployment, infrastructure automation, and designing and developing tools
and applications for code building, deployment and release management.



Requirements:

●      Strong Linux experience (RedHat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x)

●      Experience with configuration and management of CDN’s (Akamai or
level3)

●      Solid understanding of Amazon web services (or other cloud
providers) and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure
components in Amazon (or other cloud providers)

●      Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as, Perl,
Python or PHP

●      Experience with Puppet, and/or MCollective and/or Factor

●      Experience with API management gateways and portals.

●      Experience with Memcached or varnish or squid.

●      Experience with building and deploying applications and release
management

●      Apache and Tomcat experience

●      Experience with Jenkins

●      Experience with messaging technologies (RabbitMQ)

●      Experience with NoSQL (Redis, Riak, MongoDB, Hadoop) would be a plus


●      Knowledge of creating RPMs for open source



Qualifications



KNOWLEDGE

1.      BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

2.      5-10 years experience with infrastructure management, linux
administration, and networking services

3.      2+ years experience in working in AWS or in other cloud providers.

4.      Experience in managing applications running hot-hot across multiple
locations

5.      Experience in using puppet/chef to automate instance creation and
configuration

6.      Good understanding of non-relational data stores such as MongoDB,
Riak, Redis and MemCached

7.      2+ years experience in high volume public-facing web site/API
management environments.

8.      Experience with Jenkins (and/or other similar tools).



SKILLS

1.      Excellent problem solving, with the ability to distill a problem
down to one or two key hypotheses and quickly able to validate based on live
and experimental data.

2.      Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability
to relate with sensitivity to the unique needs and problems of a 24-hour
operation with critical deadlines.

3.      Ability to work closely with customers in defining content
requirements.

4.      Must be able to manage several active projects simultaneously.

5.      Can work with minimal supervision.

6.      Goal oriented, customer focused, self-starter attitude, not risk
adverse

7.      Exceptional interpersonal teamwork skills.

8.      Possess positive and professional communication skills with all
levels of stakeholders and management

9.      Dependable, organized, and highly motivated with ability to
multi-task



Thanks again and I look forward to hearing from you!



Benton Watson

Senior Recruiter

Pareto Staffing Group, Inc.

Accounting, Finance & IT

(: (770) 804-8020 ext. 819

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