Systems administrator/architect

Exacaster is looking for systems administrator/architect to join the team! You will work in one of the largest big-data environments in the Baltics where we personalize offers for 40 million consumers on a daily basis for the clients in the Europe, USA, Central and South America. Overall, we operate one of the largest Big Data environments in the Baltics and certainly have one of the most diverse sets of data and challenging analytical projects.

Responsibilities:

• Developing new solutions, improving and providing support for Exacaster hosted and client hosted Data Lake services, Exacaster products and Exacaster development/testing environment, internal systems.
• Building and supporting automated continuous integration and delivery solutions based on latest technologies and DevOps practices.
• Configure and use system monitoring tools and notification/alerting services
• Participate in research, concept testing and usability testing to deploy new technologies

• You have experience installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Linux/Unix servers
• Hands on experience of installing, configuring, maintaining and optimizing open source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo)
• You can use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Good understanding of computer networking, routing, DNS, VPN and firewall concepts
• Server and application monitoring and alerting (preferably Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Willingness to learn new things
• You feel the constant urge to automate everything
• Understanding of the ITIL based support process
• You have strong problem-solving skills
• Fluent written and spoken English

Bonus points if you:

• Previous experience in SaaS B2B web applications.
• You are familiar with Hadoop Environments (preferably Cloudera) or have experience with administrating any Data lake or DWH solutions
• Hands on project experience to roll out complex systems on Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google or other well-established Cloud services platform.
• You are the expert of Docker and Kubernetes and hands on experience with container orchestration
• You have a good knowledge of Ansible or Jenkins
• You understand backup/recovery systems, development automation routines, storage area networks and virtualization
• Knowledge of Active Directory or other LDAP based service.
• You have a good understanding of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery in the software engineering process 
• You have experience working on Java-based projects and applications