Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data

About PulsePoint:

PulsePoint is a fast-growing healthcare technology company (with adtech roots) using real-time data to transform healthcare. We help brands and agencies interpret the hard-to-read signals across the health journey and unify these digital determinants of health with real-world data to produce the most dimensional view of the customer. Our award-winning advertising platforms use machine learning and programmatic automation to seamlessly activate this data, making marketing, predictive analytics, and decision support easy and instantaneous.

What you’ll be doing:

• Deploying, configuring, monitoring and maintaining multiple big data stores, across multiple datacenters. Perform planning, configuration, deployment and maintenance work relevant to the environment. Managing the large-scale Linux infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime.
• Developing and documenting system configuration standards and procedures.
• Performance and reliability testing. This may include reviewing configuration, software choices/versions, hardware specs, etc.
• Advancing our technology stack with innovative ideas and new creative solutions.

Who are you:

• Collaboration is in your DNA. You enjoy contributing to a mutual cause, that is why you know when the team succeeds, you succeed.
• You are always looking for ways to grow your skills. You are hungry to learn new technologies and share your insights with your team.
• You like a big picture perspective and also digging into the fine details. You can think strategically but also dive into complex systems and break them down and build them back better.
• You are a proactive problem solver. You are irked by an unreliable infrastructure and your first instinct is to find ways to fix it.

What you'll need:

• Multi-faceted Alluxio and Hadoop understanding, including the Kerberos, for data storage and Trino, Hive, and Impala for data retrieval.
• Experience managing Kafka clusters on Linux.
• Thorough understanding of Linux (we use CentOS in production).
• Experience administering SQL/NoSQL databases (we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Any scripting language (Python/Ruby/Shell etc).
• Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP stack, DNS, CDN, load balancing).

Bonus, but not required:

• Ability to work with Cassandra cluster from installation through troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Puppet configuration management tool.
• Experience with scalable infrastructure monitoring solutions such as Icinga, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana and ELK.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Train/mentor junior-level staff.
• Experience in AdTech or High-Frequency Trading.
• Experience with Security-related best practices.

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