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Position: Service Engineer,
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Service Engineers ! thrive on the scale and mission-critical nature of our
complex systems as well as the challenge that comes along with their
operation. In this critical role, you'll utilize your rare combination of
UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and
coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all
operational aspects , revenue-critical platforms.
The ideal candidate is a technical generalist with skills ranging from
production systems/network management and perhaps even software
development. This position requires an aggressive learner and organizer,
with experience in systems administration, with development experience
and performance
tuning being a plus. This versatile position requires familiarity with all
the support concepts of busy web sites: Systems and database administration;
Networking; Process troubleshooting; QA and rollout automation.
This is a contract position located in Sunnyvale, CA, Burbank, Ca
Responsibilities
* Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health
and performance of the assigned Yahoo! Property
* Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and
monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment
* Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as
contributing to their overall design
* Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and
generally improve the operability and maintainability of our systems
* Identify and triage outages, monitor and remediate systems and network
performance
* Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate
our constant growth
* Function as a key member of a cross-functional team to address new
product deployment, system performance, capacity planning and SLA
compliance.
* Available to Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager
rotation
Minimum Job Qualifications
BS in Computer Science, BSEE or similar experience
Extensive system administration background
Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including
application and network-level troubleshooting ability
Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Apache, performance tuning concepts,
and web applications
Experience using scripting languages to perform
complex automation in a large-scale environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working with development teams
Preferred Job Qualifications
5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations
(ISP background a plus)
Experience with network designs, protocols, and troubleshooting.
Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python,
Ruby, Java
Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
Experience with high volume websites and deploying services to
international audiences
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