* BS/BA preferred or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of relevant experience in Linux systems administration, provisioning, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring (Nagios, Zenoss, SNMP)
* Experience leading/mentoring small teams
* Programming experience in Python preferably (Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, and Perl are acceptable)
* 2+ years of experience in network technologies (JunOS, IOS)
* Excellent understanding of current methodologies in high performance operations and large-scale implementations
* Experience developing and automating continuous integration/delivery pipelines
* Deep understanding of the Linux OS, internals, kernel & file systems tuning, protocols and services (PXE, DNS, HTTP, NFS, CIFS, FUSE) and troubleshooting utilities (strace, sar, vmstat, mpstat, tcpdump)
* Extensive experience in shell scripting/programming, systems automation tools (Salt, Puppet, Chef, FAI, Kickstart)
* Expertise in advanced networking subjects (TCP/IP, BGP, VLAN, Bonding/Trunking, switches, routers & firewalls)
* Working knowledge of virtualization technology (KVM, Xen, ESXi, OpenStack), Dell hardware (DRACs, Livecycle Controllers, BIOS, RAID controllers), and Apache/Nginx, MySQL, LVM, LVS software
* Must possess strong documentation skills and be able to work with rapid change, Configuration Management utilities (SaltStack, Puppet, etc), and Source Control (Git, SVN)
* Prior experience with CDN, ISP, 2,000+ server environments, or production Internet-facing services for large enterprise customers is highly preferred