Systems Engineer (DevOps, System Admin, Python)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Competitive and attractive compensation package
• A strong culture of learning and development
• Learn from who sits next to you!

Job description

The Role: We are seeking an exceptionally talented engineer to join our Linux infrastructure team. As a member of the team, you will collaborate closely with application developers to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Effective communication with a distributed team to handle requests and incidents from high-profile clients is essential. Additionally, you will participate in the development and maintenance of the team’s configuration management system.  Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, networking, and performance tuning is a crucial requirement.

What You'll Do:

• Support and maintain the firm’s Linux platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of task and mission ownership, acting as a liaison between regions.
• Troubleshoot issues such as packet loss, storage and network latency, and instability.
• Proactively understand internal clients’ needs and effectively communicate them to leadership both regionally and globally.
• Identify risks, develop contingency plans, and implement them.
• Monitor the performance and health of critical computing environments.
• Drive or assist in fixing advanced system and network issues involving Linux, complex routing, switching schemes, and network protocols, across various platforms (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, Salt, Grafana, etc).
• Participate in occasional (monthly) on-call responsibilities and support on-call staff during their shifts.
• Exhibit a strong desire to learn and grow skills independently and from senior team members, and maintain training materials and documentation.

Your skills and experience

What You’ll Bring:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage respectfully and professionally with individuals and teams at varying levels of seniority.
• A positive and professional attitude when interacting with clients and management during incidents.
• Strong understanding of Linux system internals, kernel operations, memory management, sockets, interrupts, etc.
• Strong knowledge of storage technologies, including Pure, Lightbits, GPFS, NFS, and NetApp
• Basic or advanced knowledge of networking and storage.
• Solid understanding of network protocols and how the kernel handles them.
• Proficiency in automating manual processes using Python, shell scripting, or other high-performance interpreted languages.
• Ability to automate infrastructure tasks or a strong willingness to learn and participate in development.
• A commitment to expanding your knowledge base, collaborating across areas, and contributing to a strong and cohesive team within the region and beyond.

Why you'll love working here

What We Offer:

• Competitive and attractive compensation package with clear career road-map – where you feel challenged everyday
• We offer a strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, speakers, share and learn events
• Learn from who sits next to you! Working in WQ you are surrounded by smart and talented people
• Premium Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Program
• Generous time-off policy, re-creation sabbatical leave (based on tenure), Trade Union benefits for staff and family
• Team building activities every month: Local engagement events, monthly team lunch – Employee clubs: football, ping-pong, badminton, yoga, running, PS5, movies, etc.
• Annual company trip and occasional global conferences – opportunity to travel and connect with our global teams
• Happy-hour with tea break, snacks and meals every day in the office!