The world's largest entertainment company is searching for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their team on a hybrid basis in Seattle, WA . In this role, you will support massive, enterprise, customer-facing applications that demand 24/7 uptime in a cloud environment by automating scripts via Terraform , developing various telemetries , and acting on system alerts .
This exciting opportunity to ensure the hottest and most iconic content is delivered to millions of users worldwide begins as a 12-month, W2 contract that offers competitive benefits and the potential to extend or convert to permanent employment!
Contract Duration: 12-Months
*Please Note: This position requires the support of a rotating shift to cover off-hours*
**Only W2 applicants can be considered, C2C (Corp-to-Corp) candidates cannot be supported**
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate and provide technical leadership within and across teams
- Code and deploy systems to define and establish best practices in cloud hosting environments using self-healing, infrastructure-as-code, security, and automation patterns
- Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and responses to identify and address reliability risks
- Participate in on-call rotation with other engineering teams
- Identify, experiment, & evangelize new technologies, ideas, and best practices across the broader engineering community
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5 years of experience in technical operations or systems reliability engineering
- Configuration management and orchestration (e.g. Chef, Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- One or more languages in your skillset (e.g. GO, Python, Java, Ruby)
- Containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Elastic Container Service)
- Skill in Cloud/PaaS Environments (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Compute)
- Thorough knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
- UNIX/Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, & security
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field preferred
- 3-5 years operating complex, large-scale Enterprise guest-facing Applications or websites
- Strong collaboration and communication skills are a must
- Experienced with Distributed Data Platforms
- Knowledge of AWS, Google or similar cloud computing environments.
- Experience working in a high capacity, highly scalable mission-critical web serving environment
- UNIX/LINUX and some Windows server experience, including expertise in system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance, capacity planning, monitoring, and security procedures
- Web (IIS, Apache) and Java application (Tomcat, Jboss, etc) server expertise
Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.