System Administrator (remote — Europe)

System Administrator (IT Team)
Location: Europe (remote: Georgia, Serbia, Cyprus, Poland, Spain, Armenia, Portugal)

ABOUT GRIDGAIN

We live in a world that increasingly expects instant gratification. To remain competitive, enterprises must process and analyze extraordinary amounts of information in milliseconds.

GridGain's Unified Real-Time Data platform enables a simplified and optimized data architecture for enterprises that require extreme speed, massive scale, and high availability from their data ecosystem. It seamlessly combines streaming data in-motion and historical data at-rest with compute functionality to help companies handle complex analytical, streaming, and transactional data workloads at ultra-low latencies.

GridGain is trusted by companies like Citi, Barclays, American Airlines, AutoZone, and UPS to manage mission-critical data operations across their businesses.

GridGain is growing! Join the team and play a critical role in a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup that's changing the definition of "real time," and the world's expectations for high-speed data processing, computation, and analytics.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We seek a creative, experienced, proactive System Administrator to join our internal IT team.

Upcoming tasks:

• Private server room in remote Data Center:
• DELL Bare Metal Servers (Linux/Windows): provisioning, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, backup;
• Network Switches and Firewalls: configuring, maintenance, monitoring, backup, implementing the high availability and fault tolerance networking;
• On-premises Kubernetes Cluster: the same things as the bare metal servers;
• Automation: Developing and implementing the automating provisioning and configuring tools.
• Major clouds:
  AWS, GCP, and Azure: provisioning and maintaining infrastructures by IaaC tools;
  Cloud Networking: Configuring inter-network connections between clouds and on-premises equipment.
• Security:
  Collaborate with the Security manager to implement infrastructure security tasks.
  
  

Our expectations:

• Linux, Windows, and macOS as the System Administrator, including bulk system provisioning, directory services administration, and implementing security requirements;

• Networking in general as the Network Engineer, including switching and routing, network security, and encrypted network interconnection;
• Fluency in automation and IaaC tools, including Ansible and Terraform;
• Fluency in Bash or Python or both scripting;
• The ability to perform routine tasks for a long time, clearly follow established procedures and rules, and the power and desire to maintain detailed documentation;
• Goodwill and willingness to share knowledge with team members;
• Intermediate English: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  
  

The following experience will be a plus:

• Configuring and managing Atlassian products, including Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Opsgenie, and Confluence;
• Configuring and managing CI/CD tools, including TeamCity, Jenkins, etc.;
• Fashionable monitoring and alerting tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
  
  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability.