Position: Middle Linux System Administrator
Company: SMTP
Experience required: 3y
Category: Sysadmin
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

SMTP.com Integrated Operations Center is looking for an ambitious System Administrator / Incident Engineer to join our growing team in Kyiv. The successful candidate will play an important role in maintaining a modern Email Delivery Platform serving thousands of customers worldwide. 

**You will be responsible for supporting a complex platform of email delivery technology sack, ensuring its stability and availability.**

**Working as a part of Integrated Operations, you will be closely working with DevOps, Development and Customer Success departments performing a critical role of connecting the dots between the early stages of new products creation to its live delivery and continuous support and improvements.**

**Requirements:**
- At least 2 years of experience in Linux server-side system administration
- Practical understanding of industry standard Incident Management processes 
- Ability and create and implement best-in-class technical documentation, processes and procedures 
- Solution driven mindset, strong problem solving skills 
- Ability to be a part of off-hours on-call rotation and escalation schedule or be a part of 24/7 shift rotation
- Confident spoken and written English language

**Qualifications/Experience:**
- Strong expertise (2+ years) in administration and engineering of Linux OS (Ubuntu, CentOS, AWS Linux)
- Experience with LXC, Docker virtualization. AWS containerisation experience preferred
- Bash/python scripting experience for daily routine automation
- Experience in various database administration and management (SQL, Redis, Mongodb)
- Experience (1+ years) in task automation - Ansible CM or similar
- Experience in monitoring systems administration (Zabbix, Prometheus)
- Experience with AWS EC2 and Route 53

**Responsibilities:**
- Build and support Monitoring Systems around the product, as well as highly available and scalable services
- Architect and implement increasingly better High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (Backup) solutions
- Ensuring the timely pickup and response to incidents from assigned teams
- Participation in resource management and efficiency strategy 
- Providing in-house help desk assistance to other Company departments 
- Handling and escalation of incidents - detection of problems with system stability and performance. Close coordination with the development team to quickly fix critical bugs
- Participation in software release management cycle
- Maintenance and support of infrastructure SLA and uptime commitments
- Support and maintain the documentation for the infrastructures, systems, components, services and network layers

**We offer:**
📝B2B contract / Free opening and dedicated accountant for your PE (FOP) with full tax coverage for Ukrainian residents
🏝 Social package: paid vacation and sick leaves (29 days)
💸  A transparent assessment and reward policy with a yearly review
👍 Ongoing professional development
🎉 Corporate events.
🗽 Free English classes.
🎓 An active and friendly team of professionals comfortable to work with and achieve your goals!