Position: Infrastructure Architect in VPS Hosting Team (Linux)
Company: ZONE3000 (Namecheap)
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Your expertise:
- Linux-based Virtualization / Private Cloud administration experience 3+ years (50+ nodes)
- Advanced Linux / Unix experience
- Distributed storage experience (e.g. Ceph)
- Networking Virtualization experience (SDN, VXLAN, TCP / IP, UDP, Routing)
- Strong cloud platforms experience (any of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean)
- Web hosting technologies experience (HTTP, DNS, SQL / No-SQL DBs, Message brokers)
- Infrastructure security implementation skills
- Infrastructure monitoring / logging experience (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Nagios, etc.)
- Scripting skills. Experience with automation scripts development (Bash, Python, etc.)
- Strong designing / troubleshooting skills
- Be able to work as part of the team
- Have a strong will for self-development

Will definitely be a plus:
- DevOps skills
- CI (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.)
- IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or ECS)
- Experience working in an Agile / Scrum / Kanban environment

What’s in it for you?
- Opportunity to deal with top-notch technologies and approaches in a world-leader product company with millions of customers
- Opportunity to make a difference for online privacy, freedom of speech, and net neutrality
- Decent market rate compensation depending on experience and skills
- Developed corporate culture: no micromanagement, culture based on principles of truth, trust, and transparency
- “You build it, you own it” mentality in most contexts
- Support of personal and professional development
- coverage of costs of external trainings, conferences, professional literature
- support of experienced colleagues
- in-house events and trainings
- regular knowledge sharing in teams
- English classes and speaking clubs
- Life-balance support
- truly flexible schedule, no time-tracking at all
- 25 working days of vacation
- 5 days of paid sick leave per month (if necessary) without providing a medical certificate
- generous maternity leave program
- Professionally strong environment, friendly and open atmosphere, ability to influence the product development and recognition for it

You will be involved into:
- Research, design, and implement technical solutions to build new VPS Hosting product
- Analyze current VPS Hosting market mainstreams
- Document research and development results to be used inside and shared with other teams
- Build and maintain virtualized environments
- Install and configure software
- Perform system upgrades and patches
- Troubleshoot issues
- Optimize service performance
- Maintain security, monitoring, logging
- Automate tasks
- Be an active part of the team to improve technical and soft processes

About the company and project:

ZONE3000 is proud to represent its partnership with Namecheap (www.namecheap.com). Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company with over 12 million customers and 16 million domains under management — and we’re just getting started.

Our culture is built on the values that we live every day: the way we work, the way we collaborate with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the emerging needs of our customers.

We are the Hosting team, and at the moment we are preparing to launch new VPS Hosting product for clients around the world. This is going to be huge.

We need a teammate to share our passion for building and improving hosting infrastructure, making it secure, manageable and smart.

Our working processes allow you to take your time for a task, plan your work and dig deep into it without being bothered by external alerts. We do more R&D and fewer operations work.

There is a team you are going to be part of, we will support, discuss and challenge ideas.