Infrastructure System Engineer

Altenar is an international IT company founded in 2011, with offices in Malta, Greece, Georgia, the Isle of Man, and Uruguay. We specialize in high-load software development and provide one of the best technology solutions for the iGaming industry worldwide.

The Infrastructure Engineer shall bring first-rate technical design and implementation skills in the fields of computer server operating systems, storage and networking together with the supporting knowledge of automation tools.  The role shall work closely with various Technology teams to deliver reliable, scalable and serviceable technical infrastructure to the Altenar product portfolio in a repeatable way.  The role demands a combination of inquisitive, conscientious and highly-organized behaviours to complement the required technical skills with a consistent approach to system performance measurement and security by design throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

The Infrastructure Engineer is part of the collective within Altenar that uses DevOps practices and must be an effective communicator, and able to collaborate across teams using processes such as the Architecture Review and other peer review.  The role requires the person to be fanatical about design and documentation and able to develop a deep understanding of the system’s norm to allow successful complex troubleshooting.  

What you’d be responsible for:

• 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 

Qualifications:

• 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

Nice to have, but its not critical,if you have no experience with these technologies, we will be happy to teach you:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with log aggregation systems (Elastic / Graylog)
• Experience with DB administration is a plus (MSSQL and NoSQL MongoDB)
• Experience using deployment pipelines for infrastructure changes and management
• Knowledge of .NET (.NET Core)

What we offer:

• Stable and flexible working environment

• Career growth opportunity

• Training and professional development events

• Health insurance

• Competitive remuneration and benefits

• Teamwork and accountability

• Sense of community and defined company culture

• Diverse workplace

• Modern comfortable office in the center of St Julians

• Corporate parking near our office

• Gym reimbursement after successfully passing probationary period