Linux System Engineer - ref. 75653 (IGB405401273)
Organisation and department description
My client is one of the world's most private and secure email solutions, they are hiring a highly experienced Linux System Engineer to support its growth. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants a diverse and challenging technical experience while working on tools that matter in people's daily life.
Your tasks as a Linux System Engineer
- Installation, maintenance, and monitoring of our server infrastructure
- Installation, maintenance, and monitoring of the server infrastructure of our customers
- Update of the company application on our servers and on the servers of our customers
- Update and maintenance of the procedures and documents relative to our system operations
- Will gradually take full responsibilities on daily operations, maintenance and monitoring of around 100 Linux systems
- Maintenance and monitoring of network and Firewall (Netfilter)
- Management of log files, log analysis and appropriate actions (bug reporting)
- Maintenance of monitoring system (alerts, graphs, analysis)
- Participation in definition of system, network and security policy of the company
- Training of customers in system and maintenance aspects
- Support towards our private label customers of the business-critical locally hosted or externally hosted versions of our application
- Work with advanced IT technologies, such as enterprise messaging protocols, high volume Storage, and databases
- Physical intervention on servers when distant intervention is not possible
- Part of an 'On Call' team for night/weekend alerts management
- Will take care of the maintenance of the company application
- Setup of the company application as well as fine-tuning setups for best performance
- Setup, maintenance, and tuning of side applications (Postfix, Spamassassin, Clamav, Nagios, Munin, HAProxy, Tomcat, Java, Java VM ....);
- Level3 support requests
Experience required
- Relevant Work: Experience: 6+ years
- Career Level: Experienced
- Position: Senior System Engineer
- Education Level: Master in sciences (no soft sciences master such as Philosophy, languages, ...)
- Must have advanced experience with Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat...) and scripting (Bash)
- Deep understanding of the Internet and networking protocols is a must
- Monitoring and graphing tool abilities are regarded as important
- Experience with low-latency and high-availability MySQL administration would be a great plus
- Good practice of configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.) and virtualization tools (XEN, KVM, ...) would be appreciated
- Experience with cloud operating systems (OpenStack) or service providers (Amazon EC2/S3, etc.) would be a plus
- Knowledge of open-source Firewalling and high-availability technologies would be a plus
Offer
- An opportunity to make a difference in the fight for online privacy
- Room to grow, personally and professionally
- A very solid team to work with
- A great balance between life and work with the possibility to work from home
- A human company where every person counts
