5+ years as DevOps Engineer or platform developer in a mid to large Linux environment.
Strong grasp and practical experience with automation and virtualization of at least one cloud platform (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, Cloudstack) and at least one automation framework (e.g. Puppet, Chef, CFEngine).
Strong with at least one scripting and/or high level language: Python (preferred), Java, Shell, Perl, Golang.
Production experience working with load balancers and web stack based application environments
Solid grasp of operating and managing MySQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Hadoop.
Familiarity with Rest/Soap/Json APIs.
Systems and application monitoring and performance tuning knowledge a plus.
Familiarity with RabbitMQ a plus.
Self-motivated, with excellent oral and written communication skills.
AWS, Cloud, Openstack, Chef, Puppet, Ruby, Python, Linux