Web Platform/Infrastructure Engineer

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Washington, DC

Posted Jul 28, 2014 - Requisition No. 41823

The Role:

The Web Operations team in Bloomberg R&D is looking for a platform and infrastructure engineer to help us in building a flexible architecture for deploying web applications. Our team provides the core web infrastructure and support for all consumer, subscription and internal web products at Bloomberg. We are currently building out software infrastructure for automating the configuration and deployment of web infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Automate operation, installation and monitoring of web infrastructure components in our open source software stack
  • Provide application developer support, documentation and training materials
  • Troubleshoot and debug production web infrastructure
  • Train application developers on web infrastructure and best practices

Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of DevOps experience or System Administration (be conversant in Unix networking and C system calls)
  • Experience with configuration management such as Chef, Puppet or Anisble
  • Experience with a UNIX shell scripting language such as Bash, Ruby, Perl and Python
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms such as OpenStack, AWS and VMware ESX
  • Solid understanding of continuous integration, deployment and operations concepts
  • Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
  • Open source contribution experience is a plus
  • Prior system administration experience is a plus

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

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