Linux System Engineer

Company Description

Scality is one of the most prominent FrenchTech Startup, recognized in France and abroad for its technical leadership and its open-source contributions. Selected for the #FT120, Scality is also a worldwide leader in the space of software defined storage. Scality has over 300 customers in more than 30 countries, and they include some of the largest telecom operators and banks in the world, many TV stations, and over 30 hospitals. For its team members, Scality wants to be an exceptional employer with many benefits such as continuous education and sport budgets, donation matching, paternity leave and many other benefits that go well beyond standards. Scality is also a conscious company which invested heavily in room-to-room conferencing to minimize travel and compensate for all its travel related carbon emissions.

Scality’s internal motto is: “work hard, play hard, eat well and amaze the customer!”

Eat well really means “Enjoy Life” which Scality employees and leaders do very well!

Requirements:

· Flexible working hours

· Located in Paris with part remote possible

· Fluent in Hindi and English

· Available for regular trips in India

· Able to deliver Support and Services

Full time position

Competitive compensation with various benefits. Junior and Senior positions available.

Qualification:

• You have a Bachelor level or 5 years’ experience
• You are an experienced Linux sysadmin and looking to expand your expertise in technologies that drive today's market. You are also curious of the bigger picture, wanting to expand your knowledge above and beyond the server.
• You have a good understanding of hosting environments and the data path from the disk to the user.
• You are passionate about these technologies: Linux / Kubernetes / Docker / ELK / Redis / MongoDB / SaltStack / Ansible / S3, you care about the customer's experience and have a strong desire to join bold and skilled coworkers
• You have a great team spirit
• You can communicate clearly, positively and efficiently with customers, partners and co-workers.
• You know how to submit substantiated product defect reports and change requests to our engineering team.
• You know how to communicate high level overviews of technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• You can manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• You can follow, improve, and create high-quality procedures and documentation

About You

• You are at ease in a multi-tasking environment, managing several projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• You seek to follow, improve, create and document high-quality technical material.
• You strive to amaze the customers, partners, coworkers and other teams with over-the-top communication.
• You can transcribe clear and educated feedback on technical issues and customer experience.

Your main missions

• As a Linux Systems Administrator, you will provide integration support and consulting for our on-premises file and object storage platform and multi-cloud data controller.
• Help and guide the customers on technical and functional challenges.
• Dive into several Open-Source stacks.
• Partake in R&D projects at different stages (requirements, technological barriers, product evolution, prototype testing)
• Prove new and disruptive solutions.

You Will Need the Following Technical Skills

• In-depth Linux system administration experience (4+ years’ experience)
• In-depth understanding of Linux Operating System architecture
• Significant understanding of x86 hardware, including RAID architecture and file systems.
• Scripting: Shell, Python and/or Perl
• Configuration Management tools (SaltStack and Ansible preferred)
• Management of large/high availability distributed environments,
• Experience of storage systems (NAS, SAN, object storage)
• Experience of large distributed high availability environments
• Knowledge of S3 and REST APIs
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to work in a distributed and diverse team
• Full English proficiency (Written and Spoken).

About Us:

Scality builds the most powerful storage tools to make data easy to protect, search and manage anytime, on any cloud. We give customers the freedom and control necessary to be competitive in a data driven economy. Recognized as a leader in distributed file and object storage by Gartner and IDC, we help our customers to be ready for the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution.

It isn’t every company that seeks to disrupt its domain of business, but that is what we aim for at Scality. We are changing the storage industry to make unlimited, affordable storage accessible to everyone. This takes exceptional technology, along with exceptional people. And that is where you come in.

We are seeking talented individuals who thrive on innovating, thinking big, focusing in, teaming up… and doing all of this very, very well. If this sounds like you, then you are our kind of contributor. We will go the extra mile to find and hire you, enhance your skills and talents, and ensure that you succeed here.

We offer careers with an opportunity to bridge international borders, an intensely fun environment with smart people, and offices in some of the most attractive cities around the world. Scality cares for and promotes its employees through company-supported training and development, a sports and wellness program, a “social responsibility” program and a generous benefits package. We also encourage events such as an all-night hackathon to reinforce creativity and innovation. Our staff enjoys regular get-togethers for life celebrations, film club, bowling, games, lunches, and parties.