Description
SmartX Net Apps is seeking a highly motivated IT professional for the position of Systems Engineer. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies including Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Private and Public Cloud services, and much more. In addition, you will be interacting regularly with individuals at all levels of the organization as a leader and mentor. If you are someone looking to bridge your technical knowledge with strategizing needs of client organizations, this is an exciting opportunity to apply your skills across a diverse landscape.SmartX Net Apps provides Internet development services to a group of customers that run some of the largest, most successful websites in the world. One of our main projects consists in maintaining and developing a website visited daily by 5-6'000'000 unique users (among top 300 in the world traffic-wise).
Our challenges include maintaining high uptime availability, delivering key features for product growth in a fast-paced environment while at the same time keeping an engineering culture based on code-reviews, unit-tests and high hiring standards.
SmartX is a growing company with an expanding team of great people. We enjoy supporting our staff with a warm office environment, kitchen essentials including coffee, tea and espresso, and celebratory company outings. We are an equal opportunity employer looking to develop a diverse workforce that reflects our vibrant city, and shares in our corporate values.
The successful candidate will:
- Consult on new system requirements and be part in architectural design phase;
- Research and recommend technologies and tools for systems administration tasks;
- Guide less experienced members of the team;
- Work closely with development and testing teams to ensure the smooth launch of new code updates or additions.
- Install and document new systems and application servers;
- Operate, update, maintain and monitor environments on a daily basis;
- Define, improve, document standard operational procedures where needed;
- Troubleshoot environments and correct issues;
- Perform periodic reporting of performance and tuning actions for assigned systems;
- Write automation and monitoring scripts
Skills & Requirements
- Experience supporting Linux Systems (at least 6 years);
- University degree in computer science;
- Red Hat System Administration II exam RHCSA certification;
- Strong experience with CentOS, RHEL or Debian;
- Strong experience with Virtualization environments;Good experience with high availability and failover clustering from different perspectives (OS, application, hardware);
- Good experience with high availability and failover clustering from different perspectives (OS, application, hardware);
- Experience troubleshooting application servers (at least one from Tomcat, Jboss or Glassfish);
- Experience supporting JAVA based environments;
- Experience debugging network problems;
- SQL, NoSQL and Graph Databases; MySQL database experience would be a plus,;
- Good experience writing scripts in Bash, PERL, PYTHON or PHP;
- Familiar with capacity planning;
- Experience with system performance monitoring and tuning;
- Familiar with service transition and service operation (preferable).
- Tomcat, Apache, and Node.js application servers; Managed DDoS Protection Systems;
- Automated cloud deployment systems using Salt and Asimov
- AnyCast DNS
- Elastic Search Cluster growing at 15GB daily
About Smart-X Net Apps
You may have never heard of SmartX, but you’ve sure heard about our clients, whom we helped become among the best in their domain. Our fame doesn’t concern us, but we strongly believe that our customers’ reputation is crucial. Thus we provide development services for some of the largest, most successful websites in the world. One of our main projects consists of maintaining and developing a website visited by unique users every day. And yes, we’ve double counted the zeros and there’s no mistake about it.
Our challenges consist in maintaining high uptime availability, delivering key features to help product growth, in a fast-paced environment, while at the same time keeping an engineering culture based on code-reviews, unit-tests and high hiring standards. We can be the hard workers every established business needs or the brilliant minds that start a new one.
Our key objective is to make Smartx Net Apps the best workplace in Bucharest.
We value our staff by investing in their health and good employment practices. We offer a creative workplace and a flat organization, focused on teamwork, product quality, dynamic and a fun atmosphere. We have a very nice and comfortable office downtown, with a break area where we provide fruit and snacks every day. We have flexible working hours, to help maintain a healthy balance between your professional and personal life.
We also offer great opportunities to:
> Work with some of the newest networking technologies and protocols;
> Work independently with minimal supervision;
> Increase your depth of technical knowledge.
We value our staff by investing in their health and good employment practices. We offer a creative workplace and a flat organization, focused on teamwork, product quality, dynamic and fun atmosphere. We have a very nice and comfortable downtown office, with a break area, outside space, fruits and different daily snacks. Flexible working hours are to support work-life balance.