AudienceScience, Inc. has exciting opportunities for Sr Operations Engineers (Applications) within the Engineering team. Operations Engineers at AudienceScience are running the production platform behind a massively scalable system that provides audience targeted advertising for some of the biggest names on the web. They have a knack for building highly scalable operational environments that keep the infrastructure behind 2.5+ billion daily transactions humming along.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Manage our web and java based applications, ensuring uptime, responsiveness and SLAs in a production environment
- Configure and maintain tools in our operations center that help keep the application operating
- Manage new builds and server deployments
- Troubleshoot service problems, escalating issues within the organization as needed
- Provide daily / weekly operations reports to Operations Management
- Work in a shift-based work schedule
- Manage a shift consisting of 2-3 resources
Requirements/Skills:
- Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent degree/diploma
- 4+ years of full-time relevant experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to be detail-oriented
- Strong analytical skills
Successful candidates will have:
- Knowledge or familiarity with one or more of the following monitoring tools: Nagios, Cacti, Keynote.com, Ganglia, Webmetrics.com
- Knowledge or familiarity with CFEngine, Kickstart or other similar configuration tools
- Knowledge or familiarly with Tomcat, Java and other open source projects
- Previous production environment, data center experience involving Linux/Unix, Java applications, databases
- Good knowledge and familiarity with Linux environments (some scripting skills would be advantageous)
- Working knowledge of Internet protocols, relational databases such as MS SQL/ Oracle / MySQL, and data warehouses
- Some experience diagnosing and resolving server, OS, applications, hardware and network failures
- Knowledge or familiarity with Amazon EC2/S3, the “Cloud” and Hadoop / HDFS would be a plus
- Spent 18 months or more at their current workplace (for those applicants with work experience)