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NOW HIRING: Senior System Engineer


Company: Amazee
Website: https://amazee.io
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland


PLEASE NOTE: This position requires that you work during standard office hours in Central Europe (UTC+0 to UTC+3)

System Engineer with Drupal exposure

We are excited to introduce our latest job opening for amazee.io. We invite you to take a look at our website at amazee.io, read of the job description below, and to make contact with us if you find our offer exciting.
The company and the job

 amazee.io provides a Drupal hosting Platform as a Service to clients worldwide. We excel in offering outstanding support and a local Docker-based development environment congruent to production servers, supporting production deployment to any server in any datacenter in the world.

Do you like to support and share knowledge with other engineers? Do you automate processes rather than doing the same thing three times? Do you believe in DevOps as a culture? Do you want to contribute to an open-source project on a daily basis? Then we may have the perfect job for you.

amazee.io is looking for a System Engineer to join our tech team. You will be essential in ensuring the happiness of our clients, the stability, and the growth of our high-performance hosting environment. We are a lean, open, international, and fully remote distributed team.

Our hosting environment is based on Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, operates in multiple locations all over the world, is completely open source, and currently serves over 500 million hits per month. We are constantly updating and improving the platform and need bright minds who are interested in helping us scale to build the world's best and fastest Drupal hosting environment.


Responsibilities:
  • Client onboarding and training
  • Provide outstanding support to our clients via Slack and in E-Mail
  • Go the extra mile for our customers to provide trouble free deployments of their sites
  • Assist with ensuring the stability of our hosting environment
  • Specify, implement, document, and roll out features/updates
  • Support tech teams by being an advocate for and implementing DevOps Principles
  • Share the responsibility for frequent off hours “on call” duty

 Requirements:
  • You prefer to work during standard office hours in Europe (UTC+0 to UTC+3)
  • 3 years+ of System-Engineer/System-Admin experience
  • Working knowledge of Linux, Nginx, Varnish, MariaDB/MySQL
  • Working knowledge of Drupal and PHP
  • Talking to clients and providing training to technical client personnel doesn’t scare you
  • Communicating effectively via cat gifs and emojis 🐱
  • Experience with Docker
  • Basic knowledge of high availability and clustered servers
  • Basic knowledge of Mac OS X, Windows
  • You're able to self-organize, work independently, but also work as part of a globally distributed team
  • You are experienced with or are familiar with agile project methodologies and principles
  • Ability to analyze problems and keep calm and focused during outages
  • Very good at reading, writing, and communicating in English

 Bonus points:
  • Experience with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
  • Experience with AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience with server security and system hardening
  • Experience with Ansible, Node.js, or Golang
  • Experience with performance optimization and load testing
  • You like to share your knowledge by speaking at conferences and meetups

 We offer:
  • Work in a very tight knit yet distributed team of creative professionals in a flat international organization
  • Opportunity to contribute daily to a open-source hosting environment that is the backbone to many international clients and organizations
  • Be part of a team that is driven by continuous improvement and does not shy away from change
  • Budget for tech equipment every two years - free choice of hardware to work with
  • Flexible working hours
  • Possibility to work remotely for 2 weeks per year from our Hubs in Zurich or Cape Town
  • Annual budget for education and conference attendance
  • An annual grant for health & wellness related things
  • 40-hour working week
  • 5 weeks of vacation plus 10 days annually for local holidays
  • Attendance to events and conferences

 Work location:

 Location is not that important, however a desire to work during business hours in the UTC+0 to UTC+3 timezone is critical.

If you are excited by the opportunity to join an international hosting company and think you might be a good fit, we would love to hear from you!


Application instructions

 To apply, please upload a maximum one-page cover letter in PDF format. Your cover letter should introduce yourself, detail your relevant technical work experience, and highlighting anything you feel we should know before we make contact with you. Feel free to also upload a concise resume. Bonus points if you send also your SSH public key ;)

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


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