Engineering Manager

InMotion Hosting is a leading web hosting company serving customers around the world. We provide reliable, high-performance hosting environments that are affordable and easy to use, but the hallmark of InMotion is excellence in customer service.

Are you a blend of technical expertise and product development? Know how to turn a concept into a project and then lead a team to create the product? If so, then we would love to speak with you. We are currently recruiting for an experienced leader who will have oversight of our Linux System Engineering team and engineering projects here at InMotion. In addition to the Engineering Manager, our System Development work is done by two dedicated System Engineers and a by project assigned team of members assigned from other technical departments (System Operations, Advanced Client Services, etc.).

The selected candidate must be analytical, utilize a strong engineering approach, has successfully led other system admin teams and be passionate about hosting as a product, platform availability, and driven by the desire to build something better than what our competitors can put out. Candidate will be based in either Virginia Beach, VA or Los Angeles, CA.

- 8+ years as a System Administrator in a Linux Environment required. - 6+ years in the environments/technologies listed below. - 3+ years leading development projects. - Bachelor’s degree or above in IT related field preferred. - Proven team management including leading system engineers during new platform creation. Network Storage of various approaches including background in: - Large scale (100+TB) storage systems with different levels of performance/cost - Strong understanding of files systems and storage approaches - Designing for particular performance for services typically found in a web hosting environment Automated Deployments/Management Systems of various approaches: - Virtualization of various types, Container and VM – Virtuozzo/OpenVZ knowledge preferred - Configuration Management for large scale standard deployments - Automated networking - Self created automation using shell scripts, python, Perl, or other backend programming – in a formal environment using versioning control and deployment staging System Design Background including: - High Availability for a large number of virtual machines (1000+ VMs or Containers) - Automated performance leveling/multiple performance levels - Experience designing and building against requirements - Create well documented standards and work with operational teams to implement and maintain standards