Responsibilities
A part of the internal Acronis systems run on Linux on bare metal servers or in VMs, both on-premise and in the cloud. Your job will be to:
Deploy, manage and upgrade Linux servers; using Ansible for consistent provisioning and configuration.
Manage infrastructure monitoring (Zabbix and Prometheus), implement new monitoring checks and retire obsolete ones.
Fix the problems when they arise, ensuring SLOs are reached.
Based on the operational experience gathered, design and implement infrastructure improvements for better security, stability, performance and efficiency.
Maintain the documentation and the configuration repository.
Experience & Skills Required
We are looking for a candidate who possess the ability and willingness to learn new things. Unbeatable curiosity and the tenacity to solve problems is a must.
You must be familiar with Linux system administration, both on bare metal and in virtualized environments. Ideally, you should understand storage technologies including iSCSI, RAID and SDS.
Understanding the principles of infrastructure-as-a-code, experience using Ansible and shell scripting for Linux system administration/automation.
Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies, hands-on experience with Docker, KVM and oVirt.
Experience using GIT in collaborative development.
Good understanding of TCP/IP and network technologies.
Basic knowledge of MySQL administration and knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go would be highly advantageous.
