System Engineer

You will be working for a leading social network development company in the center of Amsterdam. The company has shown a rapid growth in the last few years and needs various new co-workers to keep up with the pace.

You will be working in a non-formal yet professional working environment and have the opportunity to lead or work in a highly skilled and motivated team of young ICT professionals.

As system engineer you have the chance to work with state of the art (b)leading edge open source technology in a large scale environment. The company extensively uses a very large amount of the standard unix/linux toolbox to build the platform on which the codebase is hosted. On top of that they 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.


Tasks and 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 at least one linux distribution preferable multiple distributions ;
• At least bachelor degree IT field;
• You need to be able to program in one of bash, 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
  

• The opportunity to work at an innovative, high-paced web 2.0 product company, located in the center of Amsterdam;
• An executive-level salary package, with interesting upside possibilities;
• Relocation package included.