Python Job: Systems Engineer

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Company

Exads

Location

Porto - Portugal

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

Porto, Portugal - Remote
Any timezone
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Permanent
DevOps / Sysadmin
2 - 10+ years of experience - Intermediate
Requires work permit
Language(s): Required English
| Nice to have Portuguese
SKILLS

Must have:
ClickHouse
MariaDB
Nginx

Other Required:
Google Cloud Platform

Nice to have:
Python
PHP
DESCRIPTION

EXADS is a young international software startup specialising in adtech. In business since 2013, EXADS is a self-sufficient, well funded and privately owned company with offices in Dublin and Porto. We are part of EXOGROUP, a set of companies made up of +150 talents and offering a wide range of services within the digital business landscape with headquarters in Barcelona and offices in Dublin, Porto, Valencia, Madrid, Tarragona and Buenos Aires.

As a company, we actively develop and maintain our own proprietary ad-serving technology platform and custom-built infrastructure enabling us to innovate and deploy new features and functionality quickly in a fast-moving and demanding industry.

We are revolutionising the online ad-serving industry for advertisers, publishers and networks alike and are seeking to recruit highly skilled and talented System and Network Engineers to join our growing team in Porto to help install, maintain and support the server and network infrastructure powering the company’s ad-serving platform.

The ideal candidate will work closely with the application developers to provide maximum performance and availability across all servers, services and networks ranging across many exciting projects..

Responsibilities:
Installation, support and maintenance of the server hardware and software infrastructure
Management of database systems (MariaDB & ClickHouse) and web servers (Nginx)
Monitoring server and network usage
Ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient use of resources
Planning and implementing future deployments
Some 24/7 availability for critical infrastructure situations
Contribute to team process improvement adhering to industry best practice and principles
Participate in team knowledge sharing activities

REQUIREMENTS

Skills & Experience:
Extensive Linux experience (preferably RedHat) with an appreciation for OSS
Advanced knowledge of web servers with PHP
Experience with MariaDB administration
Configuration management notions (i.e. Puppet)
Experience with caching (Redis, Memcached, CouchBase)
Exposure to Agile methodologies (SCRUM) and related management tools (JIRA, Confluence)
Excellent written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills

Desirable Skills:
Platforms
Cloud Platforms (Google Cloud & AWS)
Scripting
Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl
Git / GitHub
Networking
DNS configuration
VRRP
Remote server installation (PXE, Kickstart)

Education & Qualifications:
BS / MS in Computer Science / related technical discipline OR equivalent experience.

NICE TO HAVE

Some exposure to PHP, Python & Go
Big Data exposure (Hadoop, Impala and others)
ELK (Elasticsearch and friends)
Security (SELinux, IPTables) & Advanced Networking
Monitoring tools (Nagios)

PERKS
Flexible start times - Health insurance - Your Birthday off as a paid holiday - Udemy for Business learning & training platform - EXOGROUP University, our in-house training - Employee referral program bonus - Off-site team building days out - Fresh fruit - Friday team breakfast - English & Spanish classes

REMOTE DETAILS
The candidate can work remotely from anywhere in Portugal