Senior Linux System Administrator (offline)

OpsWorks Co. is a Ukraine-based IT engineering company. We specifically focus on providing professional DevOps and System Administration Services, delivering complex Engineering Solutions and Digital Transformation. We are looking to expand our team with an experienced Senior Linux System Administrator who will help us to ensure that we meet our customers’ demands of service delivery and QoS. The position implies working with the latest technology stack and constant growth within the role. We will work together to improve clients infrastructure development, configuration management, continuous integration and delivery processes to guarantee reliability, availability and high performance of the underlying environments.

This is a full-time, remote, and long-term position.

Your Qualifications/Skills:
- At least 5 years of experience in IT Operations, Systems Engineering or SRE;
- Outstanding knowledge of *nix systems;
- Moderate understanding of virtualization concepts (at least 2 of these: KVM, Xen, OpenVZ, ESXi);
- Solid LAMP or LEMP stack experience with HA systems implementation;
- Database administration skills (at least 1 of these: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB);
- Strong scripting skills (at least 2 of the following: Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, Groovy);
- Experience working with common systems management tools (at least 1 of these: Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, Chef);
- Intermediate English level is a must, Ukrainian or Russian fluent;
- Deep interest in DevOps streaming.

Nice to have:
- Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker/Rkt, ECS, K8s or similar)
- Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud);
- Understanding of microservices architecture concept;
- Understanding of Infrastructure as a code paradigm.

You will be responsible for:
- System administration and DevOps support of worldwide development teams;
- Cloud architecture design and implementation;
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery implementation;
- APM and application ecosystem lifecycle monitoring.

We offer:
- Challenging tasks;
- Opportunity to learn new technologies in an innovative industry;
- Possibility to do new things, not just maintain old;
- Plenty of responsibility and freedom in choosing technological solutions;
- Possibility to grow your career to DevOps Engineer position;
- Appreciation and honest/open leadership style;
- A friendly team of experts who inspire and support you;
- Self-education support (access to premium subscription to Safari Books - Online, etc; paid attending professional conferences and meetups);
- Corporate English lessons with a native speaker;
- Cozy office;
- Flexible schedule;
- Paid vacation (21 working days per year);
- Paid sick leaves and medical insurance;
- Compensation negotiable, based upon experience.

We are a small but very diverse team. We are not looking to expand or hire aggressively as we prefer to give new employees the time to become an organic part of our team.

Apply and we look forward to meeting you and hopefully work with you very soon!

About OpsWorks Co.

We gather all the newest technologies in cloud computing, virtualization, automatization, and infrastructure development to deliver it to our customers as a service. Opsworks offers DevOps consulting & DevOps services by employing the best tools of deployment, monitoring and configuration management. We provide knowledge services in continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, and customized infrastructure management services. We give the tools your team needs to successfully transit into a DevOps environment. We are inspired by the best DevOps practices and Agile development that makes us professionals in these areas. Over a couple of years, we have consulted small and mid-sized companies, all across the world. Because of such an extensive experience in the field, we consider ourselves to be among the best companies in the industry.

Company website:
https://job.opsworks.co/