Work at Blue Triangle

Blue Triangle has an immediate need for an IT Operations Engineer with 3+ years production experience in a 24×7 environment. Fulltime position is in Richmond, VA.

Responsibilities include configuration, monitoring, and administration of various mission-critical systems which support Blue Triangle’s data ingestion and analytics platform. This position will have a significant impact in building our growing infrastructure while maintaining service stability.

Job Duties will include:

• Maintain health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerting and other reported incidents.
• Triage problems in an efficient manner.
• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation and perform occasional after hours support.
• Work with Developers to execute software releases, configuration updates, and other release requirements.
• Complete project work as assigned and contribute to the technical direction of various objectives, your ideas will be valued.

Experience and requirements include but are not limited to:

• Prior work with Cloud Service providers such as AWS and Google
• Experience with Python, Perl, Bash scripting
• Experience with production Docker environments
• Familiarity with monitoring requirements and building dashboards
• Configuration Management/Automation
• Familiar with best practices for infrastructure security, reliability, and fault tolerance
• Familiar with SQL servers and language Clear communication of complex concepts and troubleshooting steps is required
• Knowledge of hardening Linux operation systems and closing security vulnerability on Internet facing servers
• Knowledge of CDN’s, DNS, web servers, and other supporting Internet services Experience with streaming data and pipeline/message-queue services is a big plus

Applicants should have solid problem-solving skills, work well with small teams, have the ability to multitask, possess an excellent work ethic and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively.