Join our web team to help us deliver our web sites and applications with high availability and maximum performance. This role will provide a cutting-edge platform for our software, and a reliable service that our clients and web users can depend upon.  You’ll be helping to manage our servers and associated network appliances, engineering for fault tolerance, maximum scalability, performance, and minimum environmental impact.

Responsibilities

• Operational management of Linux servers running Apache, MySQL, Django, RabbitMQ, Celeryd and associated technologies
• Test, debug, and troubleshoot platform-level problems, identifying and isolating problematic software to assist the development team and systems administrators with fault resolution
• Monitor and optimize server and application performance
• Support the development team with deployment and production configuration of their applications
• Day to day operation and management of Integration, Stage, and Production environments
• Share on-call duties

Required skills

• Experience managing Linux servers for high availability
• Server monitoring/Nagios etc.
• Shared storage
• MySQL database deployment, monitoring and optimization
• Proxy strategies for website acceleration or Puppet
• Package management using apt-get
• Python, Django, SQL to an advanced level
• Technical problem-solving abilities
• Good understanding of applications deployment with an underlying CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla)
• Understanding of Salesforce, Zendesk, and third-party APIs, and related web application deployments

Desired skills

• Data protection compliant backup strategy
• System performance tuning and capacity planning