DevOps enginner with strong Ruby, Chef background are a definite a plus in addition to working with monitoring/automation teams to advocate automation framework for monitoring. This position of DevOps Engineer will be part of monitoring operations team helping monitoring team in
Responsibilities:
· Deploying monitoring applications in newly provisioned environments using Chef
· Maintain/Enhance process of building monitoring application configs using Chef
· Engineer should have a strong background in configuration management enabling standard configurations for systems, network, and storage components
· This is a hands-on role working collaboratively with automation and monitoring operations to enable quick builds in parallel project driven Agile development environment
· Participate in a team responsible for the design, implementation, and automate deployments of monitoring systems and services
· You will be expected to deliver innovative ideas through automation to enable standard deployable units of monitoring applications across multiple environments in production
· Point of contact for projects - responsible to identify, design and deliver project needs
· Partners with Project managers, Monitoring Operations to ensure monitoring deliverables has been deployed, validated and operational guidelines and documentation has been handed over to monitoring team
· Influence others through presentations to the architecture group to drive initiatives and technical project designs
· Maintains a high degree of professionalism and mentorship as cross-training & knowledge sharing.
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of Unix/Linux experience.
• 3+ years of experience in managing system configurations using Chef.
• 3+ years of solid experience with Ruby programming.
• Deep focus and breadth of Ruby, Chef experience is required.
• Building Chef configurations using Jenkins.
• Familiarity with open source monitoring tool chains such as Nagios, Graphite, Cacti, Collectd, RRD.
• Knowledgeable on Tomcat & Apache.
• Familiarity with VMware, KVM, XEN and Open Stack
• Familiarity with AIX VIO LPAR a plus
• Excellent team player, including the ability to work cross functionally in a fast paced environment
• Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and ability to concurrently manage multiple deadline-driven tasks and projects; self-starter
• Experience working in an agile development environment
Monitoring Engineer
Responsible for maintaining and improving a high-volume monitoring and metrics infrastructure based on Nagios for monitoring, and collectd, collection3 and Graphite for metrics. Typical tasks involve maintaining and adding to Nagios configurations, creating custom monitoring scripts and building out bleeding-edge open-source tools such as mod_gearman and Thruk. Work also involves system performance analysis and communicating regularly with project and support teams to develop new monitors and keep the monitoring system in line with code updates and site developments.
Required skills:
• Strong unix scripting. Bash and Perl are must-haves, any skill with Ruby is a big plus.
• Strong linux system administration (Redhat). Solid ability to troubleshoot a variety of performance issues and other problems, from slow disk response to running out of file descriptors.
• Strong understanding of init scripts, creating new filesystems, /proc and other sysadmin essentials.
• Experience with monitoring. Nagios experience is a huge plus, but experience with another major monitoring system will suffice.
• Must know the in and outs of creating monitors, setting thresholds and sending notifications.
• Experience with any metrics application, such as RRDTool, Cacti or MRTG.
• Chef config experience with Nagios will be plus.
• Able to troubleshoot network problems from the system perspective, such as identifying dropped packets or high latency that traces back to a particular network device. Ability to capture and analyze network traffic across a particular interface is a big plus.
• Familiarity with SNMP. Understanding of how to use snmpget and snmpwalk and work with the output.
• Ability to work closely with development and support groups to define new monitoring needs
• Hands on experience with Chef. Building Nagios configs using Chef is a plus.
Good-to-have skills:
• Ability to create a custom rpm (big plus)
• Experience with RRDs.
• Apache administration experience. Able to define a new virtual host and handle other basic configuration updates.
• Experience with subversion. Able to check in/out, check logs, perform merges, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL. Able to run remote queries against a database and incorporate such queries into a script.
• An understanding of yum repositories.
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Express Global Solutions LLC
www.egsonweb.com
975 Corporate Way, Fremont CA-94539
Phone : 510-578-9293
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