Systems Engineer, Airline Pricing and Shopping System
Every day, ITA's customers perform millions of airfare searches using QPX. We're looking for expert UNIX/Linux administrators to join the team of sysadmins that maintains these high-performance machines.
By joining this team, you'll be working with some of the smartest, most dedicated system engineers you've ever met. You’ll learn to understand the large sets of complex data that make up airline pricing and shopping, train to debug issues in production, and deploy patches and updates to production systems without disrupting service to our customers. You'll work closely with ITA's other internal operations teams and help maintain an infrastructure made up of hundreds of inter-related processes running on hundreds of Linux servers.
Responsibilities: • Work to resolve a running queue of application support tickets
• Help to debug complex problems as they arise
• Help to maintain and grow a production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly maintainable
• Participate in separate off-hours support and deployment rotations for production and pre-production installations
• Work with different internal teams to understand product domains
• Create new and update existing documentation from incident postmortems and changes to production support processes.
• Train downstream operations staff
Qualifications: • Demonstrable expertise in UNIX/Linux systems administration
• Solid understanding of networking: IP, TCP, UDP, routing, etc.
• Experience with production commercial UNIX/Linux hosting environments and 24x7 support highly desirable
• Expert-level knowledge of the standard UNIX/Linux command-line toolkit: awk, sed, bash, tcpdump, lsof, etc.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux architecture
Special Knowledge/Skills Required: • Must have excellent problem solving skills, and a willingness to exercise them on a daily basis
• Ability to constantly learn new tools and products
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please send your resume to us via this link.
An ITA Software recruiter will review your qualifications and contact you if there is a fit with our needs.
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