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Job summary:
We are currently searching for a SysOps Administraot to join Spirula's technical team, which experience solving problems in unique ways. He/she contributes the dedication and persistence to Spirula's core team, as he/she deals with customers issues by applying his/her own creative techniques to identify the source of the problems; as well as keeping the customer aware of every step along the way. This of course requires a continuous learning process on the job, as well as learning in the usual methods as online courses and books. All this is done in a friendly and inclusive environment that promotes innovation and creative thinking.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Provisioning, administrating, securing, and optimizing both live and development environments for the clients of Spirula systems.
- Respond to urgent situations in the live environments, which may include some off-working hours.
- Direct interaction with the clients through emails or the ticketing system is a part of the job.
- Deploying, maintaining, and sometimes developing Spirula centralized management tools for the servers (i.e backup, configuration management, monitoring, .. etc).
- Testing new tools that can be pushed in production as they become available.
Job Requirements
General Skills:
- Possess analytical problem solving skills and the ability to think systematically under stressful conditions.
- Excellent written english language.
- Takes ownership, outstanding work ethic, high integrity, team player, and a lifelong learner.
- Self-managed and self-motivated.
Specialized knowledge:
No one knows it all, but these are the kinds of things we’re looking for:
- Proficiency with general Linux administration using CLI.
- Good working experience with shell scripting, LEMP stack, Linux package management systems, and main cloud computing platforms (e.g AWS, GCP, DO, ...)
- Basic working experience with monitoring and performance analysis tools (e.g zabbix, newrelic, ... etc).
- Solid understanding of the Linux OS and its underlying components.
- Good understanding of networking, HTTP protocol, DNS, RDBMS.
- Basic understanding of file systems, load balancing, and information security basics.
- Practical skills of technical documentation and research, analytical problem solving, quick learning, analyze and resolve complex infrastructure issues, application deployment issues, and working with a minimum amount of supervisions.
These points will give you a boost:
- Experience with stacks other than LEMP (e.g MEAN)
- Python scripting, or any other scripting language.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like ansible and docker.
- Basic programming skills.
- Contributions to open source projects.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary.
- Social insurance.
- Private medical insurance for the employee and his/her spouse and kids.
- Work-life balance friendly business hours.
- Friendly and inclusive environment.
Working conditions:
- This position is partially remote, you are expected to show up with the team 1 to 2 days per week.
- Spirula is an equal opportunity company, we don’t filter candidates based on race, gender, religion, or political views.
- Spirula encourages disabled individuals to apply to its job posts as long as the disability type doesn’t affect the work nature of the position.
