Sr. Operations Engineer
Company Information
Lithium offers a great working environment and competitive compensation and benefits packages. We're looking for fast-thinking, innovative, passionate team players who enjoy brainstorming new ideas, working with the best and brightest in the social media software industry.
At Lithium we encourage our employees to be real. In keeping with this philosophy, we appreciate diversity and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information or criminal history.
Job Description
Lithium is seeking an Operations Engineer who will be an integral member of our Infrastructure Operations Team and will focus on supporting our 24x7 SaaS application, maintaining and improving existing infrastructure and planning and implementing new technologies in a high scale, high uptime and high security environment.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain Lithium's cloud and datacenter infrastructure
- Monitor infrastructure stability, capacity and performance
- Develop tools to build, maintain, and monitor infrastructure
- Work cross-functionally with various product engineering teams
- Improve the reliability and efficiency of Lithium products
- Write comprehensive documentation
- Respond to incidents and participate in an on-call rotation
Skills & Requirements
- 5+ years of Linux/UNIX systems administration experience
- Expert level knowledge of AWS with SysOps focus
- Configuration management using Chef and/or Puppet
- Shell and/or Python scripting
- Excellent troubleshooting capabilities
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Bachelors degree with technical major or equivalent experience
Additional Desired Qualifications:
- MySQL and Cassandra database administration and tuning experience
- Hadoop, Cassandra or other large distributed data store experience
- Experience in server/network hardening and security best practices