Enable Humanity's Interplanetary Future
At 印慣敘, we believe that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. With this vision in mind, our team is actively developing the technologies to make human life on Mars a reality.
Sr. IT Systems Engineer
We are seeking an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Linux-based technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Linux Infrastructure team and will support the flight software, avionics, and automation teams, amongst other business users. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast-paced and challenging environment, with a proven ability to excel in self-directed roles.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate closely with other engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of demanding engineering teams. Build highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
* Take ownership of processes, systems, and tools, ensuring they align with the company's goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.
* Makes recommendations, justifies, and implements improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
* Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
* Define, document, and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
* Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems.
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, information systems, or other technical field of study and 5+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 8+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
* Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments.
* Experience with Linux shell (bash scripting, output parsing, etc.).
* Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
* Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc.
* Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions.
* Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion.
* Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
* Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes.
* Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls, and HA architecture.
* Comfortable working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
* Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management, etc. in both formal and informal situations.
Additional Requirements:
* Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.