Senior Linux System Engineer

INSYS Group is a full-service management and technology consulting firm, wholly committed to providing the momentum your company needs to get you where you want to be. In everything we do, we move with clarity, vision and purpose, creating the kind of innovative business and information technology solutions that consistently drive value for our clients.

Startup style operation in NYC to accelerate new technical innovation across UI, Search, Platform Technology, IAAS, Big Data, Social, etc. The concept and vision behind the strategy is "Innovate like a Startup " with the goal of delivering highly automated, intelligent and predictive solutions to the market. Our goal is to have specialized teams of superstars focused in these areas to keep pace with market trends and quickly incubate and deliver capabilities that dramatically increase the value of our solutions for clients.

• As Senior Linux Systems Engineer you will set the bar for masterful Linux engineering while working alongside some of the best software development talent in NYC on our Infrastructure Team.
• You'll have an opportunity to maintain & contribute to open-source projects. You will pipe, grep, sed & hack your way across posix with the best of them.
• You will think in terms of nimbly composed patterns from the kernel out to the application services.
• You will have a chance to build a fully automated, highly elastic, cloud-orchestrated platform over multiple IaaS providers including AWS, Google and On-premise.
• You will leverage next generation deployment automation and configuration management frameworks, such as Ansible, Mesos, Docker, Kubernetes and others.

Requirements

• Coding chops: It's important for members of the Infrastructure Team to be competent programmers in order to interact with other engineering groups and for automating system tasks.
• Strong Linux fundamentals: System calls, iptables rules and kernel features. We leverage linux from local dev all the way to production and will need hands on across our stack.
• Metrics: Experience with open-source solutions like Graphite or hosted solutions like Librato. We can communicate key data to colleagues & stakeholders.
• Persistent data stores and queuing systems: We make use of many of these like MySQL, Redis and RabbitMQ. We may quiz you on SQL during your interview.
• Networking: deep concepts from the NIC card up to resolv.conf
• Start up or nimble technology organization experience would match our fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in bash, posix api, packagae managers (yum, apt, etc.) as well as a scripted or interpreted language like Go, Ruby, Python or Groovy.
• Strong experience with network protocols, from the lower layers (IP, TCP, UDP) to HTTP
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service e.g. AWS
• Experience with multiple modern Linux application runtimes such as Node, JVM, Python & C
• Familiarity with RDBMS, NoSQL & In-Memory databases
• Experience with Agile/Scrum as software development methodology
• Previous experience working with external technology vendors