As a System Administration you will work with world class teams and lead system engineering and administration efforts of our globally distributed, Web 2.0 products used by millions worldwide. These products involve myriad technologies, diverse platforms, Server load balancing, High Availability (HA) clusters, IP/FC SANs, Distributed File Systems etc.
In any of these roles, you will lead a team of highly technical System Administrators and will be responsible for the architecture, planning, implementation, configuration, automation, deployment, administration, monitoring and management of our large-scale, globally distributed products. We are sticklers for automation, and as such you will be expected to automate all processes using myriad scripting languages, automation tools, open source software etc. You will be involved in macro decisions as well as actual implementations in the trenches along with your troops. You will be expected to keep abreast of the latest and greatest in system administration. Your role will also involve recruitment, training, mentoring and knowledge-sharing.
Some of your responsibilities will include -
Auto-Installation, Configuration Management, High Availability, Clustering, Load Balancing, Planning Storage Systems, Monitoring, Reporting, Data migration, Replication, Backups, Networking, Equipment Selection, Security Assessments, Troubleshooting, Managing DNS, Delivering 5 nines Uptime, Scalability, Managing logging and troubleshooting, Scripting, Research, Software Selection, Platform selection, Architecture, Performance tuning, Automated package deployment, Auto-updates, Server hardening etc
FOSS experts, Unix/Linux gurus, Uber geeks/nerds. You love phrack, ;login & miss Sysad magazine. You use mutt for email, run bleeding edge distros/softwares, use NNTP/IRC/mailing lists, enjoy & contribute to postfix vs qmail vs send mail vs Exim vs Exchange OR vi/vim vs emacs debates, are an avid blogger, and believe that a shell is the only application one needs for performing any task.
You have 8+ years experience in System Architecture and Administration of which 2+ years have been spent in managing a reasonably sized team of highly technical System Administrators managing 500+ nodes using automated processes and systems.
You have spent a considerable amount of time bootstrapping large distributed infrastructure deployments from scratch and have gained significant exposure to high availability, scalability, architecture, problem solving and troubleshooting skills. You are extremely tech focused - a configuration management and automation guru. You NEVER do repeatable stuff twice and have created a repo of timeless automation scripts/configuration management code over the years. You possess sharp reasoning and logical skills, are a master of regular expressions, have a good grasp on programming traditions/tools/languages and can whip a script/program as required. You use gdb/SystemTap/Frysk to debug system problems/coredumps/backtraces.
You are a DNS & networking guru with the ability to troubleshoot networking issues with tcpdump/wireshark/etc. You are not rigid with respect to choice of technology, are relatively platform agnostic, and open to adopting the right technology for the task at hand. You have exceptional oral/written communication skills and a good sense of business.
You are innately curious, and take time out to keep up with system administration trends and practices. You can deliver reliable systems, monitoring tools, scripts and application configurations at a rapid pace.
Skills:
You are acquainted with / have mastered a few of the below skills/tools -
Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris, Any Shell/Bash, PERL/C/Ruby/Python/PHP, Basic DNS & Networking, TCP/UDP, IP Routing, tcpdump, netcat, netstat, lsof, ethereal/wireshark, IPTables, Nagios, Cactii, RRDTool, MRTG, SNMP, Postfix/qmail/Exim/Sendmail, RDBMS, MySQL/MySQL Cluster, Postgres, MSSQL, BDB, IPC, Regular expressions, Caching, nginx/perlbal/varnish/squid, Perdition, Apache/lighttpd/Axes/IIS, Tomcat/Resin, Rewrite, SSH/SSL, LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, DHCP, Kickstart/Cobbler, Yum/Up2date, Stateless Linux, NIS, NFS/CIFS, ext3/ext4/GFS/XFS/ZFS/btrfs, DRBD/NBD, RAID, IP/FC SAN, NAS, Heartbeat/Wackamole, LVS/ldirectord, Load Balancing, Multi-threading, Concurrency, Async IO, Scalability, Emacs, VI/VIM, KVMs, gdb, frysk, SystemTap, oprofile, GIT, CVS, SVN... ad infinitum
