OmniTI Operations team is looking to recruit an intelligent, dedicated and ambitious Operations Engineer. This is a unique opportunity to be on a small team where we all pull our own weight and everyone makes a difference. Other jobs promise the opportunity to learn a lot and make a difference, this opportunity promises you will learn a lot and you will make a difference.
As with all operations jobs, this isn't for the shy. You wear a pager; you go on-call; you arrive first after catastrophic failures; you get to be a hero.
You will be playing with small toys, enormous toys and hundreds of different technologies. From your run-of-the-mill web servers to OpenBSD router/firewalls shaping Gigabit Internet links to Asterisk phone switches to multi-terabyte database systems; the fun just doesn't stop.
This job is not for the faint of heart. This is hard. This is opportunity. You make a difference every day. You will grow in this position like in no other position. If you don't grow, you'll fail. Think of it like any other fun and challenging job you've had -- now remove the margin for error.
Responsiblities:
- Collaborate on a tightly-knit operations team to select and implement technology solutions for a variety of business and technical problems.
- Develop thorough monitors (both systemic and business) for production services.
- Author detailed operations documentation.
- Compile open source applications and build packages for the platform du jour.
- Troubleshoot application failures.
- Manage systems and network change control.
- Implement backup and disaster recovery policies.
- Work with developers and other engineers to improve the design and implementation of their work product to improve robustness, reliability and scalability.
- Participate in an incident response and remediation on-call rotation in which you:
- Respond to critical events.
- Follow pre-established escalation and notification procedures.
- Troubleshoot and rectify production emergencies to minimize the impact of failures.
Skills:
- Administration knowledge at least one of: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris.
- Familiarity with compiling open source applications like Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, FreeBSD, perl, etc.
- Familiarity with a packaging tool (rpm or svr4) is a plus.
- Fluency working in a UNIX/UNIX-like environment. (ssh, sh, tar, find, grep, etc.)
- Familiarity with the Subversion version control system or equivalent.
- Fluency in IPv4 networking.
- An intolerance for not learning something new every day.