Desired Skills and Experience

  • Creativity, initiative and acute attention to detail
  • Thirst for innovation and “thinking outside the box”.
  • Vigor for automating everything repetitive.
  • Obsession with software scalability and performance under high loads.
  • Love for using and contributing to open-source software.
  • Honesty, friendly attitude and good sense of humor.
  • We are a Linux and Mac-friendly group, if that’s your kind of thing.
  • We are diverse, lifelong learners.
  • We strongly believe in and follow a culture that is open, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative.
  • We are a friendly bunch and expect the same from you, too.
  • Must have 3-5 years relevant work experience
  • Fluency in Linux system administration (preferably in Debian/Ubuntu)
  • Fluency in Linux scripting: shell scripting, lightweight PHP and/or Perl scripting.
  • Fluency in administering Apache and/or Nginx web-servers
  • Extensive experience administering Linux in a virtualization environment.
  • MySQL administration and troubleshooting experience
  • Experience with clustered file system technologies such as Isilon, Gluster, etc
  • Experience with TCP/IP networking technologies (routing, switching, Cisco, Brocade, F5, etc)
  • Experience with content delivery networks such as Akamai and Limelight.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Rackspace, Openstack, etc
  • Solid track record of deploying and scaling redundant infrastructure
  • Experience with document databases (preferably MongoDB)
  • Experience working with at least one of:

Ansible Chef Puppet

  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Proven ability to write clear, concise documentation
  • Cares greatly about automation and has little tolerance for repetitive manual work
  • Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, etc.
  • Advanced scripting/programming chops.
  • “Addiction” to building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems.

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