System & DevOps Engineer

Position: System & DevOps Engineer

Company: Pipl

Location: Hod Hasharon

Description:

Working at Pipl

Our big-data challenges are BIG, we deal with tens of billions of web pages, petabytes of data and multiple clusters of servers and storage systems.

We are a company that cares a lot about fostering a great work environment and a fun, energetic, success-oriented culture. We have a strong philosophical belief that our people are our most important assets. And we don’t just pay lip service to that phrase — we incorporate it into our policies, and we live it every day. Yes, that philosophy means we have generous ‘traditional’ benefits and perks, and it also means we take a lot of time to make sure everyone in the company is in the right job, knows how his or her job contributes to the overall company mission, and has a clear sense of learning and career growth. We have great employee retention over the years because people love coming to work here and really feel like they’re part of something special.

Take full responsibility of our entire server farm (hundreds of servers); including production servers and db clusters as well as our backend Big Data NoSQL clusters.
Responsible for everything from server installation and maintenance to monitoring, from security and network administration to DB management.
Take part in cutting edge Big Data infrastructure research and implementation.
Be in charge of performance analysis and tuning of dozens of high scale distributed systems.

High level Linux expertise
At least 3 years of experience as linux system administrator or devops
Strong scripting capabilities – required; python – advantage
Experience with remote management of large server farms
Experience with SQL databases – required; MySQL – advantage
Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra especially) – advantage
Experience with Load Balancing – required; haproxy – advantage
Experience with monitoring services – required; munin & nagios – advantage
Experience with web servers – required; apache, django & tomcat – advantage
24/7 availability by phone
Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment in simultaneous projects
Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills; enjoy working in both individual and team settings
Very High proficiency in both speaking and writing English

Contact: system_devops @ pipl . com