Staff Systems Engineer - Cloud Operations

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Job Description

We are currently seeking a Staff System Engineer to support our on-premises customers. As a key member of the Cloud Ops engineering team, you will be responsible for supporting infrastructure related needs for on-premises customers to build/manage their environment to run ServiceNow products.

What you get to do in this role:

• Assist in delivering and promoting end-to-end solution architecture roadmaps that guide product and service evolution.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, test, and production support teams to ensure proper implementation of solutions.
• Supporting built systems, web services, and automation tools that are thoroughly specified, documented, and testable.
• Design solutions for replication, sharding and performance optimization.
• Recommending code tuning/optimizations
• Design scalable software and database architecture to support customer growth.
• Researching and implementing new tools and technologies

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

The candidate should have a strong background in systems architecture and engineering, an understanding of the components of software infrastructure, including hardware platforms, OS, virtualization, application, database, web and application servers. Prior experience in software development/engineering, release management/develops and managing large-scale server infrastructure is highly desirable. Strong Linux expertise is a must. Other requirements:

• 6+ years' experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems
• 6+ years' experience working on one (or more) Relational Database technologies: MariaDB, Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, time management, and critical thinking skills.
• Investigate and discover on your own, being self-driven and accountable.
• Strong experience with database/system performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization
• An in-depth understanding of the technology associated with operating a service or platform in the public or private cloud, including data centers, systems, networks, web applications, and relational databases.
• Familiarity with networking and storage concepts such as routing, IP networking, DNS, load-balancers, block and file storage, etc.
• Is comfortable designing, authoring, testing, and debugging code in a popular systems languages: Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl.
• Solid understanding of database replication/high availability, storage engines, system performance and benchmarking, performance analysis and capacity management
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Candidate must have excellent communication skills and work well in a collaborative team environment. A CS/EE degree with 6+ years of proven, related experience is required.

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Additional Information

ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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