[sf-lug] [JOB POSTING] Service Engineer, Sunnyvale, $80 to 120K

[jim]

SERVICE ENGINEER @ Yahoo!

-Full Time / Contract-To-Hire
-Location: Sunnyvale, CA
-Salary: $80K to $120K DOE 

Responsibilities
• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health
and performance of the assigned Yahoo! Property 
• Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and
monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment 
• Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as
contributing to their overall design
• Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and
generally improve the operability and maintainability of our systems
• Identify and triage outages, monitor and remediate systems and network
performance
• Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate
our constant growth
• Function as a key member of a cross-functional team to address new
product deployment, system performance, capacity planning and SLA
compliance.
• Available to Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager
rotation

Minimum Job Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, BSEE or similar experience
Extensive system administration background
Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application
and network-level troubleshooting ability
Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Apache, performance tuning concepts, and web
applications
Experience using scripting languages to perform complex automation in a
large-scale environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working with development teams

Preferred Job Qualifications:
5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP
background a plus)
Experience with network designs, protocols, and troubleshooting.
Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java
Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
Experience with high volume websites and deploying services to
international audiences  


To apply email your resume to contact at wildcog.com

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