Senior SysAdmin
The opportunity
Are you a sweet mix of skills and passion? Solving real-world problems with a wide range of technologies and applications gets you excited? Join us as our Senior Sysadmin and become our networks' wizard. If you have strong self-motivation, good communication skills, and proven experience you will fit right in. We are looking for a balance between technical competencies and dynamic thinking.
Your mission
- Performance tuning and monitoring
- Resource use and uptime monitoring
- Automation
- Day to day maintenance
- Network security
- Available to work on US schedule (2PM – 10PM / 4PM – 12AM)
Your Background
- 3 years minimum Unix or Linux systems administration experience in a high traffic production internet site
- 2 years minimum experience with Apache or Nginx web servers, MySQL, VMware
- Scripting experience in Bash, PHP, Perl, or Python
- Good understanding and proficiency with IP tables firewalls
- Solid networking knowledge
- Good understanding of how DNS works
- Experience with ISC's BIND DNS server
- Good understanding and experience with performance tuning, automation, and configuration management
- Ability to quickly troubleshoot and identify performance bottlenecks and complex problems, possibly involving OS internals
WOULD BE A PLUS:
- Linux routing, including but not limited to policy routing
- Load Balancers
- MySQL Clustering
- PHP-FPM configuration
- CentOS / Ubuntu / Debian Linux distributions
- Configuration management
- Source control management, such as Git or Subversion
- cPanel/WHM
- High availability setups
- Experience in an online advertising company or online ads traffic management is a plus
- Experience with r1soft backup solutions
- Experience with Cloudflare's DNS platform and options
- Experience with various domain registrars and configuration of domain glue records
- Experience with Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
- Experience setting up service monitoring (Nagios, Zabbix)
- Experience setting up event log monitoring (ELK Stack, Graylog)
- Basic knowledge of operating and maintaining Microsoft Windows 20xx server
Benefits
- A well-deserved salary
- “Employee of the month” performance bonus
- Holiday bonuses twice a year to keep you happy
- Referral bonus for getting your friends to work with us
- “As long as the job gets done” type of flexible hours
- Career improvement training and workshops to make you smarter
- Medical coverage to keep you healthy
OTHER PERKS:
- “Jingle and Mingle” & “Fun in the sun” – the best company parties you’ve ever seen
- “Birthday Bash at the Wheel of Fortune” (it’s weird but you want it, trust us)
- We hold a cool event every month
- Each team goes on outings to keep that flame alive
- The onsite snack dispenser is here for those moments when all you need is chocolate
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