Position: Lead Systems Operations Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA

Lead Systems Operations Engineer, Palo Alto, CA; full-time, permanent

Details:

Palo Alto based well-funded startup company building a state-of-the-art video communication platform, is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Lead Systems Operations Engineer to join their exceptional team of engineers and researchers.
The company is becoming a leader of the hottest emerging space in mobile video.
It is founded by seasoned entrepreneurs in the technology and Internet space and backed by the top Silicon Valley investors.

The compensation is a generous mix of base salary, stock options package and full benefits package.

Responsibilities:

Lead the design of a highly scalable, 24×7, infrastructure for services deployment
Lead the development of a deployment plan of the company’s multi-media communication platform, and play an active role in rolling out reliable releases
Create development, staging, and production environments to support the development team
Put in place a set of monitoring tools and alerts for company’s products infrastructure

Requirements:

Strong desire to work for an early stage startup company
3-5 years experience in leading or participating in the operations of large-scale customer-facing products
Extensive experience in deployment and scaling of large Linux servers based 24×7 systems
Ability to provide creative solutions for Linux-based systems deployment with emphasis on High-availability , load balance, and performance
Solid experience in scripting languages (Perl, Python, etc.)
Experience deploying monitoring and alerting systems such as Nagios, Hobbit, cacti…
Experience with maintaining servers across several datacenters
Experience with SCons
Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Great communication skills

Pluses:

Experience with EC2
Experience in corporate IT(network management, security, account management, etc.)
Experience with rollout of mobile applications
Virtual Clouds computing experience
Experience in large Chat Servers deployment (IRC, ICQ)
Experience with Scrum or Agile development methods

To apply:

Please send your resume in WORD format to lilia AT eltisolutions DOT com
Place the text “Senior Systems Operations Engineer” in the subject line.
Please provide the date you are available to start work.