System Operations Associate

About us: Media.Net

Media.net, powers the Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads program and is a
leading global contextual advertising company that provides a wide range of
advertising and traffic monetization solutions. Our diverse client base
includes web publishers with premium content as well as registrars, hosting
companies and holders of high value domain portfolios. We aim to consistently
deliver long-term superior performance by using leading-edge technology, high-
quality research, and proprietary processes that allow us to display the most
precisely targeted, highest paying sponsored links and ad topics. We serve our
contextual real-time ads customized for each visitor and each page view across
billions of visitors, across ‎10 's of millions sites/domains on a server
infrastructure that runs ‎1000+ CPUs, terabytes of RAM, and ‎1000's of terabytes
of data.
With more than ‎850 employees, Media.net has one of the largest teams worldwide
building a global contextual advertising business. By market cap, Media.net is
one of the Top ‎5 largest ad tech companies worldwide. By revenue, Media.net is
the #‎2 largest contextual advertising businesses worldwide.
Media.net is acquired by Chinese Consortium for $‎900 Million USD in 3rd
Largest Ad Tech deal ever and this acquisition will fuel Media.net's global
expansion strategy and provide access to China's world-class talent and
capital markets.
Job Description : System Operations Associate

Roles and Responsibilities :
* Work on projects using Linux and Windows and different application stacks
* Being part of ‎24 x ‎7 SOC Monitoring Team - Liaison with SRE, DBA, Dev, NOC teams to identify and mitigate issues reported via various monitoring apps.
* Liaise with application development and system operation teams to drive operational best practices and ensure reliable and scalable services and products
* Contribute to operational runbooks and documentation efforts
* Proactively seek out opportunities and contribute to enhancing and managing various infrastructure services such as monitoring , orchestration and continuous delivery pipelines
* Automate system configuration by writing policies and modules for puppet
* Participate as on-call support as required and remedy incidents/outages
* Implementation of permanent resolutions to prevent outages / downtimes
* Enhance and maintain our platforms for monitoring, log processing, metric collection and data visualization
* Script and code using tools like (shell/python etc) for automation and efficient management of sites/products
* Ensure infrastructure and platform security
* Ensure proper system/application/business level monitoring is in place
Who should apply for this role?
If you have :
For Experienced candidates -
* Good knowledge on Operating System (Linux and Windows) and Networking concepts
* Familiarity with any cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, AZURE.
* Familiarity with supporting applications in java, go, php, nodejs,etc
* Familiarity with tools like Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Jenkins, Git, HAProxy, etc
* Understanding of config management and infra management tools like Puppet, Ansible and Terraform
* Understanding of RDBMS and NOSQL data stores like Mysql, Redis
* Exposure to monitoring tools like Icinga, Prometheus
* Experience working on metric collection and visualization tools like Graphite, Ganglia, Kibana, Grafana, etc
* Programming abilities in languages like Python, Powershell and Bash.
* Familiarity with running Infra in colocation Data Centers, familiarity with routers, switches and load balancers
* Exposure with Virtualization and Container Orchestration

Freshers who are skilled in most of the technologies mentioned below -
* Knowledge of different operating systems (Microsoft, Unix, Linux, etc.)
* Linux - Directory structure, log files, network, boot process, etc
* Basic programming: HTML, CSS/PHP/Python/C,C++,C/JavaScript
* Data base : SQL
* Git & Github
* Python IDE: Jupyter Notebook, Spyder
* Web frameworks: Django, Flask
* Networking - TCP IP
* Architecture Understanding
* Puppet and Icinga or worked with some monitoring tools
* ELK Stack

Good to have:
* Systems/Hardware: RAID, LOM/IPMI/IP KVMs, Dell Hardware.
* Intermediate/Expert scripting in Python, Powershell
* Applications: Database Systems Fundamentals, Nginx, Apache, Haproxy, Tomcat.
* Excellent Communication Skills
* Resourcefulness and problem solving aptitude
* BE/BTech/BScIT/BCA//MScIT/MCA in Information Technology or related discipline

Benefits & Perks

At Media.Net people love their jobs, and not just because we offer the most
competitive salaries in the industry. Our excellent benefits include
everything from great medical and life insurance to catered meals. Our
workspaces are comfortable and fun, complete with bean bag chairs, ping pong
tables, and all the snacks you can eat. We have no dress code (tee-shirts are
a-ok!). We have flexible work hours and flexible holidays, which means that
teams pick their own work hours. Media.Net has its own concierge desk that
doubles up as a travel agency.
We are passionate about building the next generation of web products, and we
believe that happy employees are the key to achieving this goal. If you like
the idea of working in an exciting workspace on cutting-edge internet products
that make a truly global impact (and wearing flip-flops to work), then we want
to get to know you!