responsibilities 

• Construct systems and software to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve quality, reliability, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Optimize and measure performance of systems, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications

daily and monthly responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

required qualifications 

• 2+ years of software development experience in an interpreted language like Python
• Experience working with Linux / Unix
• Excellent Ethernet and IP networking knowledge and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers
• Awareness of cloud technologies and architecture
• Proven ability to quickly learn and adapt to new concepts

preferred skills

• Proven hands-on experience of working with AWS products to deliver software systems
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control , build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with distributed computing and large-scale systems
• Knowledge of major Internet routing protocols such BGP and OSPF advantageous
• Strong Build Systems and processes knowledge
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture
• Bias for automation and orchestration of processes
• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and network devices function, perform and scale
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, source control, code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations