About the Team
As Verizon s media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine - learning, and 5G, we re transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
About The Role
If you want to learn about Verizon Media's Big Data platform and manage a large scale system; this is the job for you. We are looking for experienced and motivated devOps/SRE engineer, with sound coding skills to help build and enhance solutions to ensure the availability & reliability of our Hadoop infrastructure. If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to gain expertise in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
Work on a combination of tasks & projects such as analyzing and assisting in the resolution of production software and infrastructure issues, reporting, deployments, monitoring, automation, and designing for redundancy/business - continuity planning.
Understand all aspects of Verizon Media s Big Data Stack and learn select components in depth.
Work closely with engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting - edge solutions that allow Verizon Media to answer today's most challenging big data questions.
Work in tight collaboration with Verizon Media Hadoop development team during the development lifecycle to ensure operability and reliability of new products, feature enhancements & research experiments.
Scripting, Networking, Capacity planning and performance tuning
12x7 oncall
Qualifications
B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent
Minimum 2+ years of industry experience, preferably at large scale
Prior experience supporting 24x7, highly - available systems
Hands - on expertise in administering, supporting, debugging and tuning Unix/Linux systems and technologies
Solid understanding of best practices around operations, software development, release engineering & continuous delivery.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Minimum skill set required
Hands - on exposure to and in - depth understanding of the Unix/Linux Operating System
Sound knowledge of Systems Management: Apache Traffic Servers, load balancing, Caching, TCP/IP, DNS, Kerberos, Monitoring, Traffic Management, Log Collection and Aggregation
Excellent Troubleshooting & Analytical skills
Working knowledge of programming paradigms and coding skills in Perl/Python/Ruby/Shell
Good to Have skills
Exposure to and understanding of Network Technologies like TCP/IP, sockets, routers, switches, load balancers, VIPs
Exposure to and understanding of Internet technologies like http servers, caching systems, DNS, GSLB techniques
Exposure to and understanding of Data storage/File system technologies like mysql, Oracle, NoSQL, HDFS, NFS, SAN/NAS, RAIDExperience or familiarity with Internet Scale systems / Large scale production systems
Experience in supporting platforms built on Java/J2EE technologies
Knowledge on Infrastructure Management tools like Chef/Puppet and Openstack
Working knowledge or experience with DevOps practices, Release management
Automation experience in infrastructure monitoring
Knowledge of Developer and Collaboration tools like JIVE, GIT, JIRA and Hudson/Jenkins.
Experience in supporting Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, and associated Service Products
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Keyskills: Unix Performance tuning Automation Linux Networking MySQL HTML Perl Oracle Apache
As Verizons media group, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine - learning, and 5G, were transforming media for tomorro...