Remote Linux Distributed Service Engineer

Written By Brian Hughes

Stamford, CT · Information Technology

  • Salary to $145-185,000 ( two positions open, one more senior)

  • Comprehensive Benefit and Retirement Programs.

This is a 100% Remote, Work-From-Home opportunity! Full-time role with extraordinary benefits in one the fastest growing MSP's with an incredibly well-established 10+ year history.

Job Description

Does This Describe You:

You're a creative thinker who loves teamwork.

A Look Inside the Job:

  • Participate in the architecture, installation, and operation of various Big Data systems including Hadoop, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis

  • Work with big fleets of hosts, and large scales of data

  • Learn what makes distributed systems tick by collecting and analyzing metrics

  • Ensure system stability, scalability, security, and performance

  • Solve complex scaling challenges

  • Partner with developers to construct solutions to analytics problems

  • We build and support in-house systems that feasibly work at our large-scale, using open source technologies like kafka, elasticsearch, Hadoop (hbase, OpenTSDB, hdfs), redis, cassandra, Icinga, Bosun, Zabbix

Qualifications

About You:

  • 5+ years of experience with Linux administration (Ubuntu preferred, but it doesn't matter.)

  • Willingness to participate in a small team that consists of mostly remote members

  • Intermediate knowledge of at least one Big Data technology: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Hadoop

  • Solid configuration management skills (Ansible preferred, Datto also uses Puppet, Salt)

  • Experience with scripting and system automation (Bash, Python, Perl, Awk, etc.)

  • Work well in an energized environment

  • Documentation skills mandatory

  • Good diagnostic expertise including problem investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution skills

  • The desire and ability to see a problem through to a complete solution

  • You pick things up quickly

  • Ability to effectively manage time and push multiple projects at once

  • Travel on a limited basis (No more than four times per year for the quarterly department meeting in the NYC area)

  • Limited on-call responsibilities (It's not bad, trust me.)

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Brian Hughes

Brian has considerable experience as a street-smart headhunter, who utilizes technology to achieve high-quality hires in a timely manner. While leveraging his deep network of contacts and resources across the nation, he is a power user of the telephone, his proprietary database, social media, job board resume databases, and internet search queries to attract top talent for his clients.


Working in the staffing marketplace since 1997, Brian founded Great Bay Staffing LLC in 2008, bringing a fresh approach to the business of matching successful companies with quality people. His success as a recruiter includes previously working for large national firms where he achieved million dollar sales marks supplying candidates to Fortune 100 clients. 


Brian is proud to say that clients and candidates find his professional, personal, and relaxed approach refreshing. Many of his new business relationships are generated from his referrals.

http://www.greatbaystaffing.com/
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