Operations Engineer
Twitter - San Francisco, CA
Our Operations Engineers have a huge impact on daily life for both Twitter engineering groups and users alike. Our team helps engineering groups design and build the next generation of web applications and systems infrastructure, and we're growing. The impact each engineer has today is long-lasting, and the opportunity to build systems at our scale is unique!

Responsibilities

Work closely with engineering groups to design, build, and maintain systems

Write scripts to monitor and automate processes

Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network

Document current and future configuration processes and policies

Qualifications

Experience in operations department of large-scale Internet service

2+ years of experience with Linux/Unix/BSD

Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, and memcache

Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python)

Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently

Track record of practical problem solving

Desired Skills

B.S. in computer science

Experience with Hadoop and similar technologies

Experience with Python/Django

Experience with Ruby on Rails stack performance tuning

Experience automating systems maintenance tasks

Experience building fault tolerant, scalable systems

Active user of Twitter

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