This position is FREE LOCATION, you can work from your home country.
You’ll work in the Systems team which is responsible for
maintaining our platform’s technical infrastructure. You’ll be
responsible for making sure our Linux servers and Mysql databases are
always up and always running optimally by monitoring uptime, applying
security updates, backups and other configurations. We like to use
configuration management and IAC tools like Puppet, Ansible and
Terraform for that.
At Vendo we operate a PCI compliant platform and we take
security seriously. You’ll be responsible for adhering to industry
standard security practices and suggest better ways to be more secure.
You’ll help maintain and improve our systems monitoring and alerting
infrastructure by building dashboards in Splunk to give us better
insight into our operations and constantly search for improvements on
how we are alerted about problems on our platform.
You’ll take part in deployments of our products to live,
production servers. You'll use Vagrant to create development
environments for our engineering teams and participate in regular
meetings with those teams to discuss and plan the problems we need to
resolve and the improvements we can make.
This is an exciting time for us as we are building a
platform on AWS. You’ll get a chance to participate in that by helping
to design and build cloud infrastructure using VPCs, EC2 and RDS. You’ll
help us explore how serverless technologies and containerized
infrastructure can help us bring products to market faster.
Qualifications and Experience:
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in an IT related field
Experience in a Linux server environment
A qualification in Linux administration and/or Amazon Web Services an advantage
You should be familiar with:
Best practices and operations in an always-up, always-available service
Devops culture and tools
The interaction between web servers, the applications they host and the clients they serve (LAMP stack an advantage)
Be able to install and configure applications on web servers
Concepts in Web application security
Performing
administrative tasks on the Linux operating system with a working
knowledge of network and OS security (we use RHEL & CentOS)
SQL and database administration (Mysql an advantage)
Coding
/ scripting concepts in one or more of Bash, PHP, Python or another
language of your choosing with an understanding of version control
systems like Git.
Automation/configuration management tools (Vagrant, Ansible and Terraform an advantage)
Building and administering cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS qualification an advantage)
Speaking and writing in English