Essential Skills:

• Build, scale, and support high-availability Ubuntu Linux production and development systems in public cloud environments.

• Work with tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Manage and improve security/availability monitoring, ensuring policies are consistently enforced.

• Deploy workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP; hands-on experience with core cloud services (instance management, IAM, databases, caching, troubleshooting).

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes (ability to build clusters from scratch).

• Expertise in load balancing, service mesh, and optimizing uptime/availability.

• Maintain quality documentation for infrastructure systems.

• Use Prometheus and monitoring tools to proactively resolve issues.

• Troubleshoot failures/performance issues; participate in on-call rotations.

• Code ownership in Go, Python, Rust, or Bash to build tools and improve integrations.

• Strong grasp of networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, routing).

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Desirable Skills:

• Excellent spoken/written English and collaboration skills.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 3+ years' experience with Linux/UNIX systems (troubleshooting, memory management, security).

• Experience with Ansible/Chef/Terraform for provisioning.

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar).

• Programming skills in Go, Python, Bash.

• Working knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases.

• Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm).

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.