Site Operations Engineer

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, committed to creating economic opportunities for its members. They are seeking a Site Operations Engineer to ensure maximum availability of the company platform by proactively responding to alerts and resolving application, system, and network issues. Responsibilities Proactively collaborate with engineering and non-engineering teams to maintain availability and performance SLAs of the LinkedIn application stack and infrastructure, using key homegrown and commercially available tools Adeptly perform application and website troubleshooting to quickly resolve issues, per documented procedures Work with development teams, as well as coordinate/communicate/manage notifications and updates of issues affecting site availability/performance to customers and executive management Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment Identify and automate repetitious tasks and processes to improve issue resolution time Effective team player that is able to work closely with peers and other operations or engineering teams Overwhelming organizational skills with ability to multitask in order to handle multiple tasks in an interrupt-driven, real-time environment Skills BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline 1+ years of experience with incident management and escalation process 1+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration and/or DevOps Experience with network concepts, IPv4/6, TCP/IP stack and common Internet protocols (http, https, dns, ftp etc.) 1+ years of experience in a technical operations or similar role Experience in programming in shell scripting or any OOP language (like Python, Perl, Ruby, Java/Scala, or C/C++) Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills - both written and verbal Ability to clearly articulate the problems and solutions to engineering or non-engineering teams at LinkedIn Good trouble-shooting and analysis skills to deep dive into a problem and drive it to resolution Experience in documentation and streamlining processes Ability to review, recommend and implement new processes to achieve or improve the site level SLAs Object-oriented Programming Unix/Linux systems administration Networking concepts: TCP/IP, IPv4/6, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS, DNS, FTP Communications skills Observability tooling Benefits Generous health and wellness programs Time away for employees of all levels Annual performance bonus Stock Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans Company Overview LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows users to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship LinkedIn has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 892 in 2025, 1108 in 2024, 913 in 2023, 1580 in 2022, 1043 in 2021, 1146 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.