Intro

We are Marfeel, one of the hottest European start-up companies, and we are looking for a highly energetic and passionate Senior Sysadmin to be part of the Marfeel Revolution. Our headquarters are based in sunny Barcelona and our office has a huge terrace to enjoy!

This is you:

• You are a methodical type of person and "Doer" is your middle name
• Your friends tell you that you can't leave anything undone and quality is your priority
• You feel like you have a mission, not just a series of tasks task
• You love new things and you can take or come up with a high-level idea and run with it
• You're always curious about what’s out there in the open-source world
• You know the importance of being part of a universe where all the departments need each other and work together for a mutual goal
• You can communicate with technical and non-technical people alike to show both technical and functional command of what you are doing
• You are motivated and excited by solving tech challenges and contributing to a team in a truly cutting-edge environment
• You care about online news and user experience
• You are definitely a technology enthusiast
• You are an international team player
• You're eternally curious and hungry for knowledge
• You have lots of stamina and you get bored if you don't have anything to do
• You are hands-on and proactive

If this sounds like you and you are up for the challenge, sit down and let us introduce Marfeel to you: 

As a Senior Sysadmin you will be responsible for giving solutions to the internal day-to-day tasks by being an active actor within the Operations team. You will manage our cloud infrastructure, build-server farms, provide environment updates, monitor alerts and give support to occasional help-desk tasks.

More specifically, you will be responsible for our infrastructure that supports more than 80 deployments every day including:

• Elasticsearch cluster with ingest rate of 1 TB/day
• Jenkins Dockerized Pipelines with 7 nodes with Master/Slave architecture
• CDN using Varnish with an Origin/Shield architecture completely managed through Ansible
• AWS & GCP cloud infrastructure supporting 600 million visits/month
• Mongo replicaset with 30K reqs/s

We have 600 million visits, over 2 billion page views and we are scaling with the minimum number of servers possible. Challenge accepted? 

Main requirements

• At least 5 years of experience managing high traffic web infrastructures
• Complete understanding of container technologies and how to apply to reduce DevEx complexity following the DevOps practices (Kubernetes) 
• Understand the challenges of deploying large applications in the cloud and having experience in various cloud providers
• Experience in applying software engineering to Infrastructure-As-Code projects
• The ability to write scripts to speed up and simplify system maintenance processes (BASH, Python, Perl, etc.)
• A feeling of being at home with web, proxy and application servers (Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Jetty, Tomcat, etc.)
• Used to managing services with orchestration tools (Ansible, Saltstack, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc.)
• Hands-on experience on NoSQL solutions (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Prometheus, etc.)
• Experience managing deployment technologies (Jenkins-ci, Travis-ci, GitLab, etc.)
• Agile methodologies and Continuous Integration workflows 

Perks

• Talented, international and multicultural team (more than 27 nationalities and more than 8 languages). You will not get lost in translation
• Flexible working hours
• Free coffee, tea, juices and soft drinks
• Sunny office terrace
• Ping-pong, Mario Kart and foosball tournaments
• Free language and yoga classes
• Team building events
• Training, books and all you need to feel the empowerment
• Beach: 30 minutes walking
• Transport, restaurant and kindergarten tickets
• And, Referral Bonus if you bring other talented people like you