Company DescriptionblueStone Recruiting is a national search firm specialized in IT.Job DescriptionOur client, located in River North, is hiring a Systems Engineer to help build their DevOps culture and assist with the delivery of a modern SaaS platform. In this role, you will work closely with our top notch infrastructure, release, and development teams to maintain and improve our performance, security, and uptime standards. Reporting directly to our Infrastructure Architect, this is an exciting career opportunity for a self-starting and resourceful professional.Our client is one of the leading providers of software to manage R&D and innovation, and has a client base that ranges from Fortune 500 firms as well as leading education institutions. Our client's team is highly collaborative, technical, and creative. This role will give you hands-on experience with the design and operation of a modern microservice-based SaaS application.Responsibilities:Deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of our distributed hosting infrastructureSetup and maintenance of automated configuration management and deployment systemsActive collaboration with dev teams, providing everyday ChatOps, release, and system supportCreate and maintain technical procedures and documentationResponse and resolution of service issuesQualificationsRequirements:Excellent verbal and written communication skillsEffective communication and collaboration with internal teams and external clientsLinux hosting experience (web serving, db admin, and JVM or interpreted language support)Experience with configuration management, systems scripting, and continuous deploymentA documented history of hard work and engineering excellencePreferred:Experience instilling values and practices consistent with a strong DevOps and ChatOps cultureExposure to Cassandra, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Mesos or other distributed systemsUnderstanding of HTTP, SSL/TLS, and TCP/IPExperience with information security: standards certification, auditing, and pen testingProven success in high-growth startup environmentsBachelor’s degree or higher in Computer ScienceAdditional InformationWork with blueStone recruiting to find your next career. You can find us at http://bluestonerecruiting.com. We look forward to speaking with you!All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.