System & DevOps Engineer

Position: System & DevOps Engineer

Company: Pipl

Location: Hod Hasharon

Description:

Pipl.com is the best, most comprehensive people search engine with over 10 million monthly visitors.
We deal with tens of billions of web pages, petabytes of data and multiple clusters of servers and data storage systems.
We offer a fun and challenging environment where you have a chance to excel at your craft, break your own records and have the time of your life doing it.

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. You will be 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 incharge 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