DevOps Engineer / System Administrator


Your primary responsibilities will be:

  • Manage and scale our learning applications software and hardware infrastructure
  • Design and implement large-scale web applications
  • Design and improve monitoring solutions for production applications for availability and performance
  • Design, implement and administer build & deployment systems, infrastructure and environments
  • Be on call for handling site outage events
  • Automate new server configurations

Requirements:

  • Strong programming and information design skills
  • Ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly
  • Prior experience with LAMP stacks
  • Working in a fast paced agile environment with continuous integration, unit/integration/load/performance testing
  • Estimating and scoping development work accurately
  • Source control experience
  • Strong sense of ownership and detail-orientation
  • Linux/Unix environment (Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat/Gentoo)
  • Building test tools and interfaces to assist testing
  • Background of working in interdisciplinary teams of 3+ members
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written business English + conversational Japanese)

We prefer those who can demonstrate experience in:

  • Developing with Rails in a production environment, at least six months (preferably two years or more)
  • In-depth understanding of SQL in general and MySQL in particular
  • Database replication, backup, tuning
  • Custom package creation
  • Automated Configuration systems such as Chef/Puppet script
  • Deployment tools such as Capistrano
  • Monitoring tools such as Nagios
  • Webservers such as NGINX / Apache
  • Caching such as Squid / Varnish
  • Monitoring and graphing solutions such as Munin, collectd and ganglia
  • Monit, bluepill or other watchdog daemons
  • Systems programming a plus
  • System level debugging using strace and gdb
  • Cloud computing experience EC2, OpenStack etc
  • Experience with Rails Paas providers like Engineyard, Heroku

Please contact us at recruit@cerego.com if you are interested in this position.

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