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Gearbox Software

Frisco, Texas - United States
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DevOps Systems Engineer

Description

The main responsibilities for this candidate will be to create a rock solid and flexible infrastructure to support our growing Internet-facing and in-studio applications. You'll be comfortable using automation to deploy web applications in a virtualized environment, and you'll be familiar with other portions of the system stack including nginx, apache, memcache, MySQL, and redis. You'll think automation first and manual second. A successful candidate will need to possess discipline to build platforms and services that will live on for a long time. This individual must be comfortable in a team environment and be willing to handle IT tasks from top to bottom (you'll build up our online presence and run the cabling to do it).  The candidate should be a self-starter with the ability to complete tasks without a great deal of hand-holding. This position will require you to carry a mobile device and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

 

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor¹s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent training and professional experience        
  • A strong foundation in systems administration/DevOps
  • Proven experience with Linux, including command line tools and common applications, and at least one scripting language (bash, Perl, Python)
  • Deployment and support experience with applications in a cloud environment, such as Amazon Web Services
  • Comfort with configuration and deployment tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Capistrano, and the depth of Ruby/Rails knowledge to develop within these tools
  • Familiarity with Perforce, Git, or similar versioning software
  • Hands-on, “get it done” attitude
  • Work well as part of a team in a fun, fast-paced environment

Bonus points for having knowledge or skills in the following technologies:

  • Monitoring (Zenoss, Nagios, or similar)
  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, NoSQL databases)
  • Messaging and Queuing (ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ)
  • TCP/IP networking
  • PHP or Java
  • C or C++
  • Consumption or development of RESTful services and APIs

What you might work on:
  • Building systems and applications that work in the cloud
  • Building systems and applications that live on indefinitely
  • Building tools to support a variety of endeavors
  • Automation
  • Big Data: Hadoop, Analytics, Visualization
  • Influencing the tools you use, the languages you work on
  • Using an API or RESTful service to add features to existing system




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