Senior Systems Engineer
ServiceNow
- San Diego, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage large scale, global infrastructure with code; write and maintain software-defined declarative infrastructure, at scale.
- Help develop systems, cloud infrastructure services, and automation tools that are thoroughly specified, documented, and testable.
- Build orchestration workflows by leveraging features of the ServiceNow platform.
- Research and implement new open-source and commercial tools, technologies and methodologies.
- Collaborate with peer teams who have built world class networking and orchestration solutions
- Develop in Python and Javascript in order to help build web services and automation tools which are thoroughly specified, documented, and testable.
- Write test plans and test automation for declarative infrastructure.
- 4+ years experience in system admin on Linux servers
- 2+ years experience in automation frameworks (bash, python, ansible, Terraform or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting systems such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience (at large scales) with Internet Mail or event streaming systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka is a plus.
- A working understanding of related infrastructure concepts such as IP networking, virtualization, block and file storage, load-balancers, etc.
- A focus on constant learning and improving technical and personal skillsets
- A drive and a passion to figure things out. You will have documentation and many peers to turn to for help, but your work will touch many interconnected systems and technologies - too many to rely solely on the knowledge of others. To succeed you will need to investigate and discover on your own.
- A strong ability to design, write and debug code. You should also have experience writing test specifications and understand the fundamentals of test automation.
- A working understanding of related internet protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, SMTP, HTTP, etc.
- Integrity, honesty, and will embrace ServiceNow’s values