Unix Operations Engineer

Contract opening for Unix Operations Engineer with large namebrand Internet Search company in Silicon Valley.

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Data Production Team is a center of excellence for managing one of the world’s largest data platforms and hundreds of data pipelines that deliver data products to our customers.

Essential Job Functions

• Maintain and troubleshoot production data pipelines and data tools

• Coordinate with IT and developers on new processes release

• Work with development team to help them create highly reliable data applications

• Managing SLA (service level agreement) for hundreds of Yahoo data pipeline machines

Production support: troubleshoot, report, and prioritize bugs on operational issues with the production data pipeline

Improve and promote operational scalability and standardization

• Diagnose OS, network and storage issues

• Coordinating with IT and developers on new product releases

• Tuning hardware and software settings

• Creating and updating operational documentation: run books, maintenance procedures

• Deployment and troubleshooting software releases according to the operational CMR procedures

Non-essential Job Functions

• Create tools and programs to automate jobs

• Work with IT to manage hardware resources

Requirements

• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking and communication skills

• Very strong sense of responsibility and commitment.

• Fast learner with the ability to work independently and in a team environment.

• Prior experience with development in Perl, Shell Scripts and SQL

• Experience with building system and application level monitoring tools for large deployment are highly preferable. Familiarity with some of monitoring applications like NetSaint / Nagios

• 5+ years of experience in release engineering, operations and technical support.

• Detailed knowledge of the UNIX operating system, prior experience with FreeBSD is a plus

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

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