At Wayfair, We Are Looking To Grow Our Site Reliability Systems Team By Bringing On Board a Talented Individual To Help Manage The Large Scale Physical And Virtual Server Environment That Underpins Our Global E-commerce Platform. Though Focused On Windows Systems Administration, This Individual Will Be a Member Of Our Infrastructure Department With a Broad Exposure To a Range Of Infrastructure And Technologies.  A Majority Of Our Project Focus Is On Scaling Our Server Farm, Performance Tuning, And Automating Daily Administrative Tasks. Some Of Our Bigger Projects Are To

  • Create and improve tools to aid in monitoring and control of our systems
  • Enhance our infrastructure to support a variety of different disaster recovery options
  • Moving to a container-based service platform

Responsibilities Include

  • Providing general windows server administration and troubleshooting for an environment covering over 2000 hosts, consisting of  physical, Mesos, and VMware virtualized.
  • Building new server images, deploying and migrating production systems, and tuning configurations to improve application performance
  • Working with other teams on the design and architecture of our Windows systems
  • Converting one-off and stand-alone systems to use our standard templates and management framework
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues that affect the production environment
  • Improve security and performance of infrastructure by working with other teams
  • Performing all other related duties as assigned by manager

Qualifications

  • BA or BS degree from a 4-year college or university
  • Experience managing and designing Group Policy, DNS, and domain controller replication topologies in a large-scale Windows environment
  • Experience working with configuration management automation tools, such as Puppet, Chef, SCCM and DSC
  • Experience working with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
  • Knowledge of web servers (IIS)
  • Familiarity with load balancing tools and techniques
  • Experience working in virtualized environments, such as Xen, VMware, VirtualBox, Mesos
  • Familiarity with IP and Ethernet networks as well as transport protocols such as Email, FTP, and HTTP.
  • Strong experience in PowerShell
  • Scripting ability a plus, particularly Bash, PHP, Python or Ruby
  • Experience working in *nix systems, or willingness to learn is a plus!

Other Traits We Look For

  • Excellent interpersonal and team building skills
  • An easy-going attitude and strong sense of humor
  • A positive, people-oriented and energetic attitude
  • An analytical, creative, and innovative approach to solving problems
  • An interest in working hard and being challenged in a fast-paced environment, and having fun while doing it

Wayfair Inc. Offers An Extensive Selection Of Home Furnishings And Décor Across All Styles And Price Points. The Wayfair Family Of Brands Includes

  • Wayfair.com, an online destination for all things home
  • Joss & Main, where beautiful furniture and finds meet irresistible savings
  • AllModern, a go-to online source for modern design
  • DwellStudio, a design house for fashion-forward modern furnishings
  • Birch Lane, a collection of classic furnishings and timeless home décor

Wayfair generated $2.25 billion in net revenues for full year 2015. The company employed 3,809 people as of December 31, 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations throughout North America and Europe.  The company has previously been named one of America’s Most Promising Companies by Forbes Magazine and selected by the Boston Business Journal and Glassdoor.com as a Top Company to Work For and Top Company for Well Balanced Life.

Wayfair does not accept unsolicited candidate referrals or resumes / CVs from third-party vendors, including recruitment agencies. Wayfair will not be responsible or liable for any fees or costs associated with such unsolicited submissions

Desired Skills and Experience

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