Your role :
Global Relay delivers enterprise services to 23,000 customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 global banks. Our infrastructure teams provide fantastic opportunities to System Administrators who are passionate about maintaining reliable Linux systems with a strong interest in automation, performance, and security. We are looking for someone who is motivated to automate 'on-prem' only solutions including Linux based OS Updates, configuration management, and custom based implementations created by our talented developers.
- Deploy, update, and monitor Linux systems
- Collaborate with development teams to reduce TOIL related to bespoke application deployments and associated tooling
- Support multiple on-premise environments
- Collaborate with application support teams to share and document knowledge and operational run books
- Scale and manage infrastructure with high throughput, availability, and storage requirements
- Assist with urgent issues including being part of an on-call rota to provide 2nd level troubleshooting support when required
- Automate all the things
About you :
We are looking for someone who is willing to grow in the role and extend their skill set as our Information Archive solution continues to evolve to meet our future architectural goals to exceed customer expectations.
Minimum 3 years of experience as a Linux system administrator of bare metal, VM, and orchestrated deploymentsEnjoys automating away manual tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, etc.) and configuration management tools such as AnsibleA desire to dig deep to troubleshoot, debug, and decouple the layers that comprise automated deployments and configuration managementAbility to analyze complex systems and problems and express them in simple termsExperience in troubleshooting networking issuesExperience working in Agile based teamsA problem solver who takes initiative and is proactiveEffortlessly self-motivates while working on team-based projectsA well organized, thorough, and detail oriented personAble to keep the 'bigger picture' in mind while prioritizing conflicting demands and tasksConfident enough to voice your opinion, ask questions, and not afraid to suggest a better solution, without being abrasiveEnjoys collaborating with others, including other functional teams to implement automated, scalable, stable, and efficient infrastructureNice to haves :
Scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)Automation and Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Fabric, etc.)Experience researching and advising on new technology implementationsSQL administration (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)Hands-on Kubernetes experienceContainerization experience (Docker, Podman, etc.)Networking experience (DNS, VLANs, etc.)Experience with web servers and load balancers (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, etc.)Monitoring and logging infrastructure (Zabbix, Splunk, ELK, Graphite, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)Experience of CICD practicesProficiency in Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines developed in Groovy running on a Linux foundationExperience with object-oriented languages (Java, C# etc.)Experience with performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning for Database clusters (e.g., Ceph, Cassandra)#J-18808-Ljbffr