Linux Hosted Operations Engineer - Amazing Software Company

Linux Hosted Operations Engineer - Linux/Unix, Tomcat/JBoss/Apache, Puppet/CHEF/CFEngine, Cacti/Nagios/Zabbix etc...

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Our client

Our client is a leading software development company with over 20,000 clients across 130 different countries. The company employ over 400 people and expects this to grow year by year at a rapid rate. The company provide de bugging software and collaboration tools. They are a different type of software house that promote innovation. Do not be surprised to find a fridge full of beer and the team having a game of Texas Hold’em at lunch!

Obviously doing things differently mean this is not your typical job, you won’t get frustrated with Bureaucracy and lacklustre decision making, and as a company they love to promote innovation and creative thinking. They like to know your ideas and opinion in regards to everything that they do. As part of the team situated in Amsterdam, you will be mixing with a team made up of several different cultures.

Imagine working in a place where you get to do what you love every day. We are building a different kind of Software Company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity. We are not your typical company and proud of it!

• Love a rapid rate of change (with obsessive-compulsive attention to reliability)?
• Love the idea of working on high scale web operations?
• Want to work in a comfortable, casual environment with other smart people?

If so, This is the place for you!

What You'll Do

Working in our Amsterdam office, you will:

• Respond to system alerts, prioritizing and resolving incidents to restore service to maximize availability
• Analyze, troubleshoot, diagnose, and perform root-cause analysis of incidents in a global team
• Create and tune monitoring systems
• Create procedures to ensure service stability, including writing scripts
• Collate incidents into bug reports
• Liaise with other internal teams
• Make a difference

Key Requirements

• Ability to administer Linux production servers (Centos, Debian, Redhat)
• Understanding of Java specific performance issues and their resolution. E.g. garbage collection issues, heap sizing
• Ability to write in one or more scripting languages such as: BASH, Perl, Python, or Ruby
• Able to perform monitoring and metrics analysis of production servers using common monitoring tools. E.g. Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, Hyperic or others
• This position includes some weekend shifts

Highly Desirable Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated experience
• 3-5 years experience in system administration, development, or IT support
• Experience with java/J2EE, either programming or administration
• Analytical and systematic approach to problem solving
• The role is in a new team and rapidly changing product environment, so flexibility and initiative will be highly regarded

Bonus Points

• Having ever been on call
• Tools development experience
• Scalable web operations experience
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• Mention the word 'Kangaroo' in your application