Operations Engineer

Skytap is looking for talented Engineers to join our operations team. Skytap operations is a fun, collaborative environment integrating disciplines of systems engineering, network engineering, and operations practices. Cloud computing is one of today's hottest technologies, and Skytap is leading the way by providing self-service virtual data centers in just a few clicks. Skytap's operations team helps ensure the continued excellence of our production cloud service as well as our corporate IT infrastructure.

We are looking for individuals with experience designing and managing full application stacks; ranging from custom software to physical datacenter equipment.

This is an opportunity to apply and expand your skills across a wide range of emerging technology. We strive for DevOps style integration between our operations, development, and QA teams. Our service is built primarily on open source software including Linux, Mysql, HAProxy, and others. Experience with these technologies along with hypervisors and scale-out architectures is preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with a talented team of engineers and architects
  • Participate in the full application lifecycle with product management and development teams
  • Perform monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting, and reporting on Skytap production platforms
  • Manage and expanding physical datacenter infrastructure
  • Release management and deployment of Skytap production platforms
  • Identify and triage bugs in Skytap's service

Required background and skills:

  • BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
  • 4+ years experience in maintaining 99.95%+ uptime production environments
  • Self-directed and a great team member
  • Strong general *nix operational experience
  • Strong background in developing tools and scripts to support production environments
  • Background in server virtualization, including hardware and networking
  • Able to participate in off-hours on-call rotation

Software:

  • VMWare ESX
  • Ubuntu Server
  • Oracle Solaris 10
  • Relational databases
  • LAMP stack and components
  • Microsoft Windows XP/7 and Server 2003/2008 (secondary skill set)

Hardware:

  • Blade servers and chassis
  • Core routing and switching (Juniper, Brocade/Foundry, Cisco)
  • Network security appliances
  • Layer 1 data center infrastructure
  • Storage / SAN technologies

Skytap has a fun startup atmosphere, and is located in the historic Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle. To learn more about Skytap, please visit our website at http://www.skytap.com. If interested please send your resume to us at jobs@skytap.com.
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