System Engineer (Linux) 7289

Logical People

Amsterdam, Netherlands

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Shift work

Languages

English

Experience level

Intermediate

Job location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tech stack

Microsoft Word

PHP

Apache HTTP Server

Systems Engineering

Bash

Border Gateway Protocol

CFEngines

System Configuration

CouchDB

Software Debugging

Linux

DNS

Ethernet

Ganglia (Software)

Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server

Internet Message Access Protocols

Python

Linux kernel

Linux Distribution

Linux Servers

Memcached

MySQL

Nagios

Network Connections

Nginx

Open Shortest Path First

Open Source Technology

Peering

Subversion

Systems Integration

TCP/IP

Linux Virtual Server

Zabbix

Postfix

GIT

Cacti

Puppet

Job description

The social networking site of our client is one of the largest websites in the Netherlands. Currently, the site has over 8,5 million members and reaches 55% of the Dutch population.

Features include: profiles, photo's, blogs, messages, chat, schools, companies and music. Their product can be used on a browser, a mobile phone and a desktop client. Recently they have joined the OpenSocial initiative, opening up the platform to 3rd party developers. Functie The System Engineering Department is responsible for the operational well being of all 3000+ Linux servers and the network between the three datacenters.

Where other companies focus on configuration of the systems, our client focuses on ensuring optimal performance of all available systems and their integration. To realize that in a scalable manner, we make extensive use of cutting edge open source technologies. Important components of our architecture are a.o. Gentoo Linux, nginx, MySQL, (stackless) Python, memcached, and puppet. The team performs on an academic level, and actively contributes to the open source community.

As system engineer you have the chance to work with state of the art (b)leading edge open source technology in a large scale environment. We extensively use a very large amount of the standard unix/linux toolbox to build the platform on which their codebase is hosted. On top of that they work in tight integration with the development team that builds the codebase.

You need solid understanding of general system administration with a twist because most of your work involves changes in an automated configuration system which roll out over clusters sizing from 10 to 1000 servers. We promote and support open source and have a liberal policy with regard to open source work within the company.

Responsibilities

Take part in the 24×7 on-call rota
Ensure maximum availability and performance of the 3000+ server infrastructure
Server and service monitoring
Optimize server & grid configuration
Propose improvements to current setup
Stay up-to-date with new technologies and developments Eisen

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience with at least one linux distribution preferable multiple distributions

At least bachelor degree " Informatica"
You need to be able to program in one of bash, python, php or perl
You have solid hands-on experience with at least 3 of the technologies listed below:

Apache-httpd / nginx / lighttp / pound
MySQL-innodb / MySQL-myisam / MySQLProxy
Linux Virtual Server / keepalived / pirhana
Nagios / Zabbix / Cacti / Ganglia / OpenNMS
Memcached / Project-Voldemort / CouchDb
xmpp in all it's incantations
Puppet / CFEngine / BCFG2
trac / subversion / git
TCP/IP / BGP / OSPF
DNS / Postfix / IMAP / POP

Compiling a linux kernel should be something you have done before on multiple occasions and you should feel comfortable rolling your own kernels for production environments.

If you bring experience in the categories below this would be an advantage: