Operations Engineer Cedexis

Overview

Here at Cedexis we are building a faster Web. Be a part of an innovative engineering and operations team designing a massively scalable and performant, global load-balancing product.

We need an experienced IT ?Operations Engineer? to help design, implement and deploy applications, subsystems and network topologies. This position is full-time and located in our Portland OR office. The Operations Engineer will take applications developed by the Engineering (software development) team and design highly available IT architectures.
Desired Skills & Experience

Experience with virtual and cloud based compute and storage resources
Experience building and maintaining a global, multi PoP monitoring system a plus
Comfortable configuring BGP announcements and community strings is a plus
Minimum of 4 years administering Linux systems in a production environment
Proven ability to quickly learn and implement unfamiliar technologies
Experience with scaling database driven web applications to handle significant load
Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment.
Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus.
Advanced experience coding in one of the following languages is a plus: Shell, Python or Perl
Proven analytical abilities, coupled with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

Primary Responsibilities

Participate in the design of architectures that deliver against strict requirements for functionality, scalability, performance, cost and reliability
Continually evaluate and improve our processes and application standards with the goal of repeatability and standardization
Installation and configuration of UNIX servers
Write scripts to monitor and automate processes
Write & maintain operational, monitoring, and deployment documentation
Create and maintain security measures (firewalls, patches, ssh keys, ?)
Shared 24/7 pager responsibilities

Company Benefits:

We?re a small shop, and benefits will grow as we do, for now we?ve got a few qualities that we think makes us rather unique:

100% medical care coverage for you and your family
Vacation policy: take it when you need it.
Inner SE Portland location
Competitive compensation
Sponsorship is not available

Location:	Portland, OR United States