Platform Delivery Engineer #2013-4425 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

Platform Delivery Engineer #2013-4425 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

2013-4425

Posting Job Title 

Platform Delivery Engineer

Job Location 

US-IL-Chicago

Category 

Technology

More information about this job:

Overview:

As a Platform Delivery Engineer, the ideal candidate will have experience designing, building and supporting highly-available hosting environments for large scale web sites within a virtual private cloud infrastructure.  You will collaborate with teams across OWW to plan, coordinate and carryout tasks and projects for our various environments.  Your focus will be on proactive system administration, orchestration, and detection of issues and vulnerabilities.  We value dedicated, enthusiastic, and energetic teammates who are serious about their careers and who value a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Be consistently proactive about identifying risks, vulnerabilities, and issues in our environments which you then collaboratively drive to mitigation
• Act as Unix/Linux virtual system administrator
• Use application monitoring tools for monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of network, application and server issues within the virtual cloud.
• Plan and execute deployment of new capacity and manage various deployments of virtual cluster hosts.
• Perform cluster and site performance analysis
• Act as 3rd or 4th level support for incidents escalated from our Service Operations Center and Site Reliability Engineering.
• Use change management tools and processes for environment configuration management and communication
• Create infrastructure documentation as well as Standard Operating Procedures which will be used by support teams 
• Automate repetitive tasks to eliminate manual work where possible
• Monitor application logs for errors and help in problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Ensure security of our environments by adhering to security guidelines and requirements; as well as working directly with OWW’s security team to proactively identify and manage security risks
• Act as technical consult and support for various projects throughout the organization

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, relevant field, or equivalent field experience.
• Minimum of 5 years experience as a systems administrator and operations engineer in a Unix/Linux environment
• Minimum 2 years solid experience with virtualization technologies (private cloud preferred)
• Solid experience with Unix/Linux, Tomcat, Apache, FTP, TCP/IP, and SSH
• Experience with Software Configuration Management (CVS, AccuRev, Git, or similar)
• Experience with Oracle and SQL (data manipulation and conversion, import, and export)
• Proven problem solver
• Proven ability / experience with virtualization platforms and clustering( CloudStack, Open Stack, VMWare, KVM, etc)
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Bugzilla, Jira and Wiki
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly
• Ability to use individual judgment quickly prioritize and manage multiple assignments simultaneously based on goals of the organization
• Excellent attention to detail
• Responsive and proactive troubleshooter
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Ability to work well as a team player and collaborate with others to identify and execute optimal outcomes
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals, making presentations to customers or management, and working closely with a wide range of individuals

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