Sr. DevOps Engineer (Linux & Python Expert)

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A Little About Us

Yahoo Search Production (DevOps) Engineering is a unique function that resolves production environment and operations challenges as if they are software problems. We strive to delight hundreds of millions of daily search users with highly scalable and reliable environments. We work to make sure that they are able to get what they want when they want it. We work closely with the rest of the business unit - Product, Development, Testing and Business teams - to support our goals of providing the best Search experiences in the industry. We integrate with the entire product lifecycle so as to be able to provide support for the agility that is requisite in this industry. In this we are responsible for service quality, performance and delivery to the Yahoo users across the globe. We leverage industry standards and best practices in order to achieve these high standards.

A Lot About You

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver the new and better experiences to our users while ensuring reliability and performance of the Search services. You are the type of person who will jump in to debug and fix things, multi tasks and context-switches well. You have strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Release management, Performance Engineering and Network Operations.

Your Day

• Maintain and support production systems and their associated infrastructure and tools.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the product and technical roadmap and manage impact to the operability of systems.
• Provide in-depth and timely solutions to complex technical issues, related to both site-up issues and product improvements.
• Maintain and improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business-continuity planning.
• Work closely with Quality and Release Engineering teams to facilitate release pipelines and enable the continuous deployment
• Participation in on-call pager rotation
  

You Must Have

• Computer Science degree or equivalent

• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Unix based production preferred
• Solid understanding of UNIX systems (PREFERRED: RHEL)
• Good understanding of IP networking concepts
• Experience with scripting on Python and/or Ruby - Good understanding of monitoring and alerting best practices
• Experience with PL/SQL on MySQL/Oracle
• Knowledge of Performance tuning & ITIL standards i.e. Change management, incident management preferred
• Experience with Continuous Deployment
• Experience with Infrastructure as code tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible and/or other tools in production environments at scale preferred
• Experience with AWS is a plus