Current Job Openings at ARIN

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Overview

Employees describe ARIN as offering a supportive, casual, and flexible work environment that provides an atmosphere of continuous learning while being responsive to the community we serve.

Located in Chantilly, Virginia, ARIN offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, training, and education reimbursement. In lieu of stock options (we are a nonprofit, membership association), we have a generous 401(k) retirement plan.

In 2017, ARIN was named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post.

Site Reliability Engineer

Apply: To apply for this opening, please e-mail your resume to jobs-sreng@arin.net. This position will be designated under a primarily offsite work schedule but will be required to periodically work in the ARIN Chantilly, Virginia office. Please note that this is an in-house position. Relocation not provided. Any offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check, including references. Final candidates will need to complete a background check authorization form.

We are currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for the reliability and automation of ARIN’s infrastructure systems and processes, with an emphasis on automation, enabling successful deployments, monitoring releases and keeping software-defined and containerized infrastructure highly available. This engineer will run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health. This position will also measure and optimize system performance and provide operational support and engineering for multiple distributed software applications and databases.

Job Description and Responsibilities

  • Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
  • Support development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
  • Participate in platform management and capacity planning.
  • Utilize Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible to automate deployments and configurations.
  • Manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage, networking, and administer high-availability PostgreSQL clusters.
  • Continuously evaluate system security, make recommendations for related improvements and incorporate security improvements as required by ARIN policies.
  • Provide technical expertise in the operation of all information or database platforms and DNS zones managed by ARIN.
  • Establish guidelines and training for disaster recovery processes.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on hardware and software products based on an assessment of operating requirements.
  • Provide on-call support for all critical network and system operations on a rotating basis.

Additional Duties

  • Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
  • Ability and willingness to travel in accordance with ARIN travel guidelines.

Background/Skills Required

  • 4+ years building or supporting applications in distributed environments (LINUX/SQL) and supporting or improving the Systems/Software Development Life Cycle.
  • 4+ years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up Alerts for early determination of the issues.
  • 4-year college degree preferably in an information systems or computer science related discipline OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
  • Experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.
  • Experience in installing, configuring, cabling, and maintaining physical server hardware (hands on or remote (guiding on-site technicians)).
  • Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, OpenShift, nginx, Apache httpd, Ansible / Puppet / Chef.
  • Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, load-balancing etc.
  • Coding experience in one or more programming languages.
  • Good interpersonal skills. Strong verbal and written skills. Ability to complete tasks on time, while working in the office or from home.

Background/Skills Preferred

  • Experience with common Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv6, DNS, HTTP, IGPs and BGP.
  • Experience with network operations and database administration (PostgreSQL and MySQL).
  • Prior experience working in a SOC-2 environment.

Physical Requirements

  • Moderate physical activity with the ability to type and perform repetitive motions.
  • Ability to pick up and maneuver computer equipment weighing up to 50 pounds. May occasionally maneuver heavy equipment weighing up to 200 pounds.
  • 80% of time looking at a computer screen.

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