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Onsite Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CompanyOnsite Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LocationSenior Site Reliability Engineer - Paris - FR
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttp://www.contentsquare.com/en/jobs/#senior-site-reliability-engineer
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TechReactScala
Parsed locationsSenior Site Reliability Engineer - Paris - FR
Posted bycf357
PostedAug 7, 2015
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Original posting

Onsite Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Paris - FR Ref. CS­-backend­-2015­-08­-SRO URL http://www.contentsquare.com/en/jobs/#senior-site-reliabilit... CONTEXT: Content Square is one of the current fastest growing company, deploying lots of analytics tools through a critical data pipeline. This infrastructure needs to remain strongly reliable and available, with minimum downtimes. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Build and maintain alerting tools, metrics, and methodologies to reduce possible downtimes. - Ensure production-ready applications fit the expected availability constraints. - React to system inefficiencies and resolve issues quickly to ensure system availability and performance. - Troubleshooting experience tracking down performance, load, networking, I/O and memory problems. Coordinate engineering and external communications. REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of experience with Linux system administration. - Experience with monitoring systems using tools (like Nagios, Icinga, Shinken, OpenTSDB) and writing health checks. - Interest in learning and managing newer technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Kafka… - Experience of a classical network stack : CDN, DNS, load balancers, TCP/IP... - Good understanding of how to think about data durability (think backups, max time to recovery, and generally how to avoid losing data at all costs) PREFERRED: - Experience with system management tools like Puppet or Chef - Experience with Scala and/or JVM.