Senior Support/ Release Engineer

By Tawny on September 22, 2009

Job ID: BE541124

Job Title: Senior Support/ Release Engineer

Salary: $90-120k

Location: Northern California

Job Description:

Our client is all about passion, challenging problems, intellectual discussions, and maintaining a work-life balance with numerous entertaining events. Their team searches for smart eclectic people with a sense of adventure who want to contribute to killer technologies for innovative new web products.

Our client is looking for an awesome engineer to manage and support their production sites. You will be responsible for the availability and performance of high traffic sites. A key element of the role is diagnosing and resolving production software issues, and for this you will need to develop an in-depth understanding of our client’s application architecture and work closely with their developers. You will need excellent scripting skills – to enhance our automated test and release process, and to automate anything you have to do more than once.

Qualifications:

must have a BS in Computer Science or related field
must have 4+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX system administration
must have a solid scripting skills in Perl, Python or Shell
must have proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
must have sharp analytical skills
must have experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment
must have a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
must have customer focus
must have great communication skills – to communicate production issues to developers, operations, product and business teams
should have SQL experience

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