Staff Linux Systems Engineer
Company Description
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Job Description
The Team
As a key member of the Self Host Operation Team you will be assisting our self-hosted customers to troubleshoot their system, database, and infrastructure-related problems. In this challenging role you will ensure the availability and reliability of the ServiceNow applications running within our customer self-hosted environments. You will also work closely with engineers and developers in Cloud Operations and across the company.
In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
The ideal candidate will have expert-level skills with Linux / Unix with RedHat certification stongly preferred.
In addition you should have a strong background in systems or database administration and engineering, understanding of the components of cloud infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, applications, databases, networks, web and application servers.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- 10+ years experience with Linux (RedHat and/or CentOS)
- RedHat certification strongly preferred
- Working-level experience with the SSL protocol, TCP/IP, database replication, languages such as Perl, Python, JavaScript and storage configurations.
- Several year’s experience with MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle or similar technologies; proficiency preferred
- Strong experience with service troubleshooting in a production environment covering web front-end, Tomcat application servers, Systems, Databases and Networks.
- Experience with Networking Technologies such as routing, switching and load balancing. F5 and Apache/NGINX experience is ideal.
- Experience with performance and availability monitoring, analysis, and configuration management platforms (e.g. Nagios/Icinga, Cacti, Ansible, Puppet, cfengine, chef, Splunk, Logstash) is desirable.
- Understanding of ITIL v3 framework and how it applies to incident, problem and change.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics (or equivalent experience)
- Candidate must have good communication skills and work well in a collaborative team environment.
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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