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Altenar · 3 months ago

Infrastructure System Engineer

Malta, MT

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

Altenar is an international IT company specializing in high-load software development for the iGaming industry. The Infrastructure System Engineer will design, create, and maintain shared systems, support network connectivity, and provide infrastructure expertise within a DevOps collective while ensuring security and effective communication across teams.

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Responsibilities

Design, creation, maintenance of shared systems such as NTP, DNS, monitoring clusters, log aggregation clusters

Deployment, operation and maintenance of site networks using multi-vendor technology such as hardware and software loadbalancing, 10 to 100 Gbit/s Ethernet switching, inter-VLAN or microsegmentation firewalling, IP routing

Operate and support Altenar wide-area network connectivity, coordinate with and support office internetworking

Manage effective resource utilization, segregation and billing on Altenar public cloud accounts

Operate and support Altenar’s on-premise and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters

Provide infrastructure expertise to the DevOp collective, support Automation team in environment preparation and as escalation for troubleshooting

Embracing innovation and experimentation in a structured way

Communicating effectively with managers, leaders and subject-matter experts in a matrix organization with overlapping areas of ownership

Plan work, report on progress, escalate blockers

Having a strong sense of duty and exercising duty of care beyond the immediate fix

Being guided by the principles of security by design and serviceability in mind to ensure that agility does not come at the expense of disproportionate risk or the accumulation of technical debt

Being trustworthy and accountable in the handling of company data and physical assets

Qualification

System administrationTCP/IP knowledgeLinux expertiseVirtualization technologiesBasic scriptingSystem security knowledgeDocumentation skillsOrganizational skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Degree in a related major (Engineering / CS)

Proven system administration experience in heterogeneous environments (Windows / Linux with RPM package management predominantly)

Basic scripting skills (bash, powershell, python or other)

Detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and related network protocols such as IP multicast, public IPv6

Knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery

Solid understanding of redundancy mechanisms such as NIC teaming, link aggregation, shared storage clustering, TCP load-balancing, SSL offloading, majority node-set clustering, failure fencing

Solid understanding of process scheduling, virtual memory models, swap and troubleshooting performance in the operating system

Solid understanding of distributed/shared block storage, file storage, IO performance

Solid understanding of virtualization using VMware, KVM and other technologies

Solid understanding of Linux containers and their theory of operation

Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory in a production environment

Good appreciation of information security concepts such as segregation, threat surfaces, and the importance of vulnerability management

Basic appreciation of the organization of parallel development streams and the use of code repository and versioning systems (based on Git), build systems

Excellent organizational skills and familiarity with project planning approaches/tools

Strong documentation skills