Position: Senior Linux System Engineer
Company: A2 Hosting
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

As a Senior System Engineer, you will be part of our global 24x7 technical operations team. As a member of the technical operations team, you would be responsible for investigating and providing solutions to complex technical issues that will make our customer experience better.  This position is 100% remote and you can work anywhere in the world. 
The System Engineering team operates 24x7x365, working a schedule similar to Monday - Friday, 12AM-8AM EST. 

**Responsibilities for Senior System Engineer:**

- Provide solutions to complex technical issues from internal business units.

- Monitor the A2 server farm for stability and take proactive and reactive measures to correct and prevent system issues.

- Work closely with our monitoring, engineering and platform teams to come up with best practices and ways to improve the existing infrastructure and new infrastructure build-outs. 

- Build tools and solutions to automate recurring tasks.

- Write formal documentation on configuration standards, troubleshooting steps, and infrastructure design.

- Design and implement large and complex technology projects.

- Participate in an on-call rotation.

- Other duties as assigned.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 5+ years of Linux (CentOS/RHEL) experience.

- The ability to write shell scripts to help automate routine tasks.

- Familiarity with configuration management systems and the ability to write new modules and modify existing modules, e.g. Salt.

- Expert knowledge in web hosting software such as Apache, Litespeed, MySQL, and Exim.

- The ability to work on a flexible schedule including nights and weekends.

- Ability to work on your own or as a team in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.

- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills - we have daily video meetings.

**Desired Certifications:**

cPanel & WHM System Administrator I Certification (CWSA-1) 

**What We Offer:**

- Paid parental leave

- Paid Time Off (PTO) bank of hours to be used for vacations, holidays and sick time

- The ability to work from home, this position is 100% remote