Description
Title: Sun System Engineer
Type: Contract- 6 months
Location: Atlanta, GA 30339
The systems engineer will be responsible for designing and developing solutions for infrastructure setup, configuration, automation and caching, primarily on the cloud. This requires an excellent understanding of sound application/infrastructure design, networking, application deployment and management, server provisioning and maintenance, and platform automation.
The systems engineer will work closely with data systems engineers/architects, performance/platform engineers and application developers/architects. The systems engineer will be responsible for the full deployment, infrastructure automation, and designing and developing tools and applications for code building, deployment and release management.
Client Details: Headquartered in Cobb County, GA since 1982, our client is the world's leading cross-platform media company and a pioneer in televised, radio, and Internet based media. They have been named one of The Top 10 Places to Work in Cable by Cable World Magazine for two consecutive years. This company has consistently rated in the Top Five for News, Entertainment and Information. As part of one of the fastest growing cable networks today, this organization is sure to meet your desire for an exciting career.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
- 5-10 years of experience with infrastructure management, linux administration, and networking services
- Experience in managing applications running hot-hot across multiple locations
- Experience in using puppet/chef to automate instance creation and configuration
- Good understanding of non-relational data stores such as MongoDB, Riak, Redis and MemCached
- 2+ years of experience in high volume public-facing web site environments
- Experience with Puppet (or other similar tools) and experience with Jenkins (and/or other similar tools).
- Experience with cloud compute (Google, AWS, Rackspace etc.)
- Linux Administration experience (RedHat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x)
- Experience with Puppet, and/or MCollective and/or Factor
- Experience with configuration and management of CDN's (Akamai or level3)
- Experience with designing and developing custom caching solutions
- Experience with varnish or Squid or Memcached
- Experience with building and deploying applications and release management
- Good working knowledge with Scripting languages such as, Perl, Python or PHP
- Experience with message queuing technologies (RabbitMQ)
- Experience with NoSQL (Redis, Riak, MongoDB, Hadoop) would be a plus
- Knowledge of creating RPMs for open source and CPAN modules a plus
- Experience administering SAN, NAS storage and Netbackup a plus
Please contact Denise Wicks
Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.
Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.