Linux Systems Administrator
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ZipRecruiter is looking to expand our technology team. We are a successful startup that is profitable and growing rapidly.
We're looking for a strong Sr. Systems Administrator who is happy to learn new technologies, and excited about working in a growing, collaborative environment.
This position will be responsible for designing, planning, implementing, and maintaining solutions to provide a stable, secure, and reliable platform for our production application.
What you’ll be doing:
- Networking.
- Servers (virtual and hardware).
- Operating systems.
- Low-level application support.
- Security.
- Troubleshooting.
- Capacity planning.
- Performance tuning.
- Log aggregation and analysis.
- General systems administration.
- Backup/recovery.
- On-call support (as part of a weekly rotation).
- Providing infrastructure-level solutions to business problems.
- Documenting technologies and procedures.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience with 24x7 user-facing application environments.
- UNIX/Linux-based scripting skills (bash, perl, python, ...).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a willingness to roll up their sleeves and tackle any issue thrown their way.
- Solid communication skills (written and verbal).
Bonus Points:
- Experience with multiple AWS technologies.
- Vast expertise with many AWS technologies.
- Experience administering production MySQL databases.
- Experience with automated configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, cfengine, etc.).
- Advanced perl scripting chops.
- Experience with Elasticsearch.
A few technologies we use:
AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, SES, RDS, DynamoDB, ...), Perl, Python, MySQL, Graphite, Icinga/Nagios, Apache, Nginx, collectd, Elasticsearch
ZipRecruiter is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V). All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. This organization uses E-Verify.
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