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Operations Analyst Job Opening at Wireless Generation in Brooklyn, NY
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| Position: | Operations Analyst |
| Company: | Wireless Generation |
| Job Location(s): | Brooklyn, NY |
| Start Date: | As soon as possible |
| Employment Term: | Regular |
| Employment Type | Full Time |
| Starting Salary Range: | |
| Required Experience: | 3 years |
| Required Security Clearance: | None |
| Related Categories: | IT - Operations and Support, IT - Analysis/Project Mgmt |
Position Description
| Location: | Brooklyn, NY |
| Duration: | Regular Full-Time |
| Relocation Available: | No |
Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems and services that help educators teach with excellence. With its solutions, educators can easily apply research-based, proven practices such as frequent progress monitoring and needs diagnosis, data-informed decision-making, differentiated instruction, and professional collaborations across classrooms, grades, and schools. The company has helped educators address and solve some of the most pressing challenges in teaching and learning. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and three million students.
Job Description:
The primary responsibility of an Operations Analyst at Wireless Generation is to improve the visibility of technical operations across the company. This position requires a strong desire to implement automation, instrumentation and to be innovative in communicating technical details. Proven leadership with excellent coding, analytical and systems administration skills are typical traits of people in this position. Being an Operations Analyst at Wireless Generation is very rewarding based on the breadth of exciting challenges to solve in creative ways.
Responsibilities of Operations Analyst:
- Work with IT Operations teams and Development teams to build tools for tracking of system and application metrics
- Analyze data to find ways of improving communication of key points to both Engineering teams and Business teams
- Assist in gathering data for root cause analysis of incidents
- Participate in the design, deployment and ongoing management of the configuration management, monitoring and metrics infrastructure
- Align engineering development requirements with the capabilities of the available infrastructure
Requirements of Operations Analyst:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related Technical disciplines
- At least 3 years of professional experience in systems administration with a preference towards Linux administration
- At least 2 years of experience in configuring Nagios and writing NRPE checks
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following metrics tools: Ganglia, Munin, Cacti
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Bcfg2, Puppet, CFEngine, Chef
- Comfortable coding and debugging in at least two of the following languages: Shell, Python, Ruby, Java, Perl or PHP
- Experience with Splunk, R, logstash, gnuplot, graphite OPENTSDB or other data analysis/graphing tools
- Solid verbal and written communication skills
