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Datto, the world’s leading provider of IT solutions delivered through managed service providers, is looking for a Senior Linux Distributed Services Engineer to join a growing team responsible for providing monitoring and alerting for internal customers. We work with numbers (metrics) and messages (logs) that your application produces, reacting in real-time as well as recording significant historical trends which can be graphed. We build in-house systems that feasibly work at our large scale, such as elkstack and OpenTSDB.
You will report to the Sr. Monitoring Engineer I - Lead.
A Look Inside the Job:
- Participate in the architecture, installation, and operation of various Big Data systems including Hadoop, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis
- Work with big fleets of hosts, and large scales of data
- Learn what makes distributed systems tick by collecting and analyzing metrics
- Ensure system stability, scalability, security, and performance
- Solve complex scaling challenges
- Partner with developers to construct solutions to analytics problems
- We build and support in-house systems that feasibly work at our large-scale, using open source technologies, primarily Zabbix and others like kafka, elasticsearch, Hadoop (hbase, OpenTSDB, hdfs), redis, cassandra, Icinga, and Bosun
- Travel on a limited basis (No more than four times per year for the quarterly department meeting in Norwalk, CT)
- Limited on-call responsibilities (It's not bad, trust me)
About You:
- 10+ years of experience with Linux administration (Ubuntu preferred, but it doesn't matter)
- Willingness to participate in a small team that consists of mostly remote members
- Intermediate knowledge of at least one Big Data technology: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Hadoop
- 10+ years of experience with monitoring platforms at scale, preferably Zabbix
- Solid configuration management skills (Ansible preferred, Datto also uses Puppet, Salt)
- Experience with scripting and system automation (Bash, Python, Perl, Awk, etc.)
- Work well in an energized environment
- Documentation skills mandatory
- Excellent diagnostic expertise including problem investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution skills
- The desire and ability to see a problem through to a complete solution
- You pick up on things quickly
- Ability to effectively manage time and push multiple projects at once
Note: We are looking only for candidates willing to join us directly as W2 employees (No 3rd party candidates)
Benefits:
- At Datto, we believe our employees are our greatest asset and offer all full-time employees a wide-ranging benefits package, including:
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