DevOps Engineer (Linux)

The client is seeking a talented individual to manage and architect the environment that underpins our e-commerce platform. Though focused on Linux systems administration, this individual will be a member of our technology team with a broad exposure to a range of technologies with a view to architect the platform of tomorrow. The majority of your projects will initially focus on scaling infrastructure, security, performance tuning, and automating daily administrative tasks. The client is one of Australia’s fastest growing online retailers and this role provides a once in a career opportunity at the start of an exciting period of growth where your dynamism and vision will have a direct influence on the success of our business.

• The management, oversight and future architecture of production infrastructure and systems that power the client's customer experience.
• Providing general administration, performance tuning and system hardening for Linux and Microsoft server environments.
• Working with Engineering teams to improve overall application performance across multiple architectures
• Building, deploying and automating server infrastructure and tuning configurations for application performance
• Improving security, scalability, availability and performance of infrastructure
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues that affect the production environment
• Working closely with technology team members to learn and support new applications provide feedback to and input into future development.
• Oversight of the general support processes. Working with the frontline team to define and develop processes and policies for support functions.
• Experience working in virtualized environments, such as VMWare
• Linux/Unix/BSD background (preferably Centos/RHEL)
• Experience using continuous integration tools (Gitlab, Git
  workflows, Jenkins)
• Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish
• Expertise with Puppet development and deployment
• Develop software and system solutions, utilising a number of technologies (Python, PHP, Java, C++, Ruby, SQL,
  Memcached, Redis, SOLR, Elasticsearch (ELK), Graphite, StatsD). 
• Active Directory, Group Policy and general corporate systems administration a plus

• 5+ years of experience in systems and/or software engineering and the SRE and DevOps paradigms
• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure within hybrid environment with high availability requirements
• Expertise in performance testing tools and SRE best practices
• Ability to multitask
• Analyse failures and identify root causes in conjunction with engineers
• Contribute to the agile and test-driven engineering culture with creative problem solving and can-do attitude
• Want to be a part of a team working to build an awesome e-commerce platform for Australia’s largest Furniture & Homewares online retailer. As the business continues to grow at an exceptional pace, we will be working on tools and processes to help scale technical operations to meet the demand of expiation of internal and external customers.

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