IT Operations Engineer

About 1&1 Internet Development

With 15 million customers, 1&1 is one of the world’s leading web hosting and internet service providers, serving both private and commercial users. The company offers a wide product range, from hosting and domains to dedicated and cloud servers, e-mail and e-commerce solutions.

The technology hub in Romania is the second largest software development center of the 1&1 Group and strives to offer own innovative products for millions of customers worldwide, plus high quality maintenance and dynamic enhancements for our software. In order to continue our success story, we need enthusiastic people, ready to take part in shaping the internet along with us.

Main Responsibilities

• Maintaining and supporting mission critical high-performance infrastructures in the Data Centers, and working with other groups to ensure application availability, reliability and performance.
• Planning, acquiring, updating and operating Corporate IT infrastructure such as servers, systems, applications, networks and other equipments.
• Performance tuning improvement, balancing, usability, automation, code deployment
• Support, maintain and document infrastructure architecture and functionality
• Integrate new software versions with existing systems maintaining compliance standards
• Work with other departments in creating solutions that meet their IT requirements
• Responsible for 24×7 mission critical application availability
• Monitor infrastructure as part of the department 24x7x365 coverage and investigate any issues that arise;
• Is available to respond and handle after hour issues and be on call; position require to participate toon-call rotation in both primary on-call and incident command capacities
• Collect and review systems data for capacity and planning purposes
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
• Respect company internal set of rules, procedures and policies
  
  

Job Requirements

• Preferable Computer Science faculty or Mathematics and Informatics faculty.
• Experience as IT engineer working with Unix/Linux systems, databases (Mysql, Cassandra), hardware, scripting and web applications (Apache, Tomcat)
• Experience with installing, configuring, maintaining UNIX systems (different Linux flavors: Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat etc).
• Solid knowledge of the administration of web-applications like Apache, Tomcat and their integration with databases, preferably in high-availability environments
• Detailed knowledge of common network protocols and -technologies, . TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP, DNS, routing, VLAN, IPVS.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage systems, backup systems and clusters technologies.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc.).
• Experience with tools like: Git, GoCD.
• Experience with virtualization (KVM) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) technology.