2 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Linux performance analysis and tuning across CPU scheduling, NUMA, memory, page cache, disk, filesystem, and network behavior.
- Lead production incident troubleshooting, write postmortems, organize follow-up work, and prevent recurring issues.
- Author and maintain declarative configuration management code using Salt, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
- Build, deploy, and operate containerized services on Kubernetes or Nomad.
- Automate operational work using Bash and Python.
- Operate DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP networking, VLANs, routing, and TLS services.
- Configure and troubleshoot Nginx and HAProxy, including routing, TLS termination, health checks, and connection handling.
- Support Redis and RabbitMQ in production.
- Provision and maintain virtual machines across VMware, Xen, or KVM, including capacity planning, host maintenance, and live migration.
- Manage Vault secrets, dynamic credentials, policies, and rotation.
- Own Elastic Stack log aggregation and Nagios, CheckMK, or Icinga alerting.
- Use Git, pull requests, peer review, runbooks, design proposals, and incident write-ups as part of daily work.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in Linux systems, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
- Expert Linux knowledge, including performance analysis, processes and signals, systemd, cgroups, namespaces, filesystems, memory exhaustion, and file descriptors.
- Production-scale experience authoring and maintaining Salt, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet configuration management code.
- Production experience with Kubernetes or Nomad, including scheduling, resource pressure, rollouts, and workload debugging.
- Strong Bash skills and working Python knowledge.
- Foundational networking expertise across VLANs, routing, DNS, DHCP, TCP behavior, and TLS.
- Experience with Nginx or HAProxy and at least one of VMware, Xen, or KVM.
- Daily experience with Git and peer review.
- Excellent written communication for runbooks, design proposals, and incident write-ups.
- Preferred: primary production ownership of Redis or RabbitMQ.
- Preferred: Vault administration, including policies, authentication methods, and rotation at scale.
- Preferred: Elastic Stack operations, including index lifecycle, mappings, and cluster tuning.
- Preferred: regulated or revenue-critical environments and colocation or bare-metal operations.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Chicago, Illinois.
- Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
- Medical, vision, dental, and 401k benefits.
- 20 paid vacation days plus an additional paid vacation day during the employee's birthday month.
- 10 paid sick days.
- Gym membership reimbursement and an in-building gym.
- Commuter benefits and a shuttle to and from Metra.
- Pet insurance and wellness and mental health programs.
- Charitable donation matching and two paid volunteer days off.
- Daily catered lunch when in the office, plus a kitchen with snacks and beverages.
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About tastylive
tastylive produces a free, online financial network with eight hours of live market analysis and trading education each weekday for retail investors. Its programming focuses on options, futures, and active trading, and is closely integrated with the tastytrade brokerage ecosystem. Based in Chicago, it operates as the media arm of tastytrade, which is owned by IG Group, and monetizes through advertising, sponsorships, and driving engagement with the brokerage.