System Engineer

As a System Engineer you will be working for a leading social network company in the center of Amsterdam. This young company has grown to have the largest website in the Netherlands. With 10 million members and over 240 million page views a day, you will be part of a company which uses cutting edge technology and innovation. You have the chance to become a part of wolds best experts of Web 2.0 and Open Source technologies.

The culture within the company is informal yet professional. The decision- and deploy circles are very short. Something that you have thought of today, might be online within 6 weeks. You will be encouraged to be creative and have all the freedom to try new ideas. You will receive coaching and courses in areas of your interest. There are also many growth opportunities within the company in the long run. You will be part of an international team of developers and engeneers from countries like the Netherlands, France, Romania, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Poland, India, Russia, Germany and Australia. English language will be the only means of communication for all developers.

As system engineer you have the chance to work with state of the art leading edge open source technology in a large scale environment. We extensively use a very large amount of the standard unix/linux toolbox to build the platform on which the codebase is hosted. On top of that we work in tight integration with the development team that builds the codebase. You need solid understanding of general system administration with a twist because most of your work involves changes in an automated configuration system which roll out over clusters sizing from 10 to 1000 servers. We promote and support open source and have a liberal policy with regard to open source work within the company.

Responsibilities:
Take part in the 24x7 on-call rota
Ensure maximum availability and performance of the 3000+ server infrastructure
Server and service monitoring
Optimize server & grid configuration
Propose improvements to current setup
Stay up-to-date with new technologies and developments

• At least 3 years of experience with multiple Lenux distributions
• At least bachelor degree " Informatica"
• You need to be comfortable in bash
• You need to be able to program in one of, python, php or perl
• You have solid hands-on experience with at least 3 of the technologies listed below:
  Apache-httpd / nginx / lighttp / pound
  MySQL-innodb / MySQL-myisam / MySQLProxy
  Linux Virtual Server / keepalived / pirhana
  Nagios / Zabbix / Cacti / Ganglia / OpenNMS
  Memcached / Project-Voldemort / CouchDb
  xmpp in all it's incantations
  Puppet / CFEngine / BCFG2
  trac / subversion / git
  TCP/IP / BGP / OSPF
  DNS / Postfix / IMAP / POP
• Compiling a linux kernel should be something you have done before on multiple occasions and you should feel comfortable rolling your own kernels for production environments.
• If you bring experience in the categories below you get bonus points:
  compiling and packaging software for a linux distribution
  hands-on experience with OSPF/BGP, peering and IX/LIR setup and maintenance
  Debugging network connections up to the ethernet frame-level of the stack
  ISP experience or system integration experience
  A drivers license :-)

• The opportunity to work as a System Engineer at an innovative, high-paced web 2.0 product company, located in the center of Amsterdam;
• 6 months contract followed by permanent employment;
• Above market average salary package, with interesting upside possibilities;
• 8 % holiday allowance on top of the base salary;
• 25 working days holidays;
• Pension scheme;
• Assistance with paperwork (work permits, local bank account, social security number etc.);
• Free plain ticket for face to face interview and moving to Amsterdam;
• Up to 4500 euros relocation fee;
• Assistance with finding an accommodation of the initial period;
• 30% tax benefit for everyone recruited from outside of the Netherlands.