LinkedIn · 4 days ago
Site Operations Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry Level
$72K/yr - $119K/yr
1+ years expLinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, committed to creating economic opportunities for its members. They are seeking a Site Operations Engineer to ensure maximum availability of the company platform by proactively responding to alerts and resolving application, system, and network issues.
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Responsibilities
Proactively collaborate with engineering and non-engineering teams to maintain availability and performance SLAs of the LinkedIn application stack and infrastructure, using key homegrown and commercially available tools
Adeptly perform application and website troubleshooting to quickly resolve issues, per documented procedures
Work with development teams, as well as coordinate/communicate/manage notifications and updates of issues affecting site availability/performance to customers and executive management
Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment
Identify and automate repetitious tasks and processes to improve issue resolution time
Effective team player that is able to work closely with peers and other operations or engineering teams
Overwhelming organizational skills with ability to multitask in order to handle multiple tasks in an interrupt-driven, real-time environment
Qualification
Required
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
1+ years of experience with incident management and escalation process
1+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration and/or DevOps
Experience with network concepts, IPv4/6, TCP/IP stack and common Internet protocols (http, https, dns, ftp etc.)
Preferred
1+ years of experience in a technical operations or similar role
Experience in programming in shell scripting or any OOP language (like Python, Perl, Ruby, Java/Scala, or C/C++)
Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills - both written and verbal
Ability to clearly articulate the problems and solutions to engineering or non-engineering teams at LinkedIn
Good trouble-shooting and analysis skills to deep dive into a problem and drive it to resolution
Experience in documentation and streamlining processes
Ability to review, recommend and implement new processes to achieve or improve the site level SLAs
Object-oriented Programming
Unix/Linux systems administration
Networking concepts: TCP/IP, IPv4/6, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS, DNS, FTP
Communications skills
Observability tooling
Benefits
Generous health and wellness programs
Time away for employees of all levels
Annual performance bonus
Stock
Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans
Company
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows users to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$154.8MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesGreylockSequoia Capital
2016-06-13Acquired
2016-02-15Private Equity
2014-04-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Ryan Roslansky
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Shapero
Chief Operating Officer
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