[Network-jobs] Systems Administrator with Ning in Palo Alto, CA remote work available - full time role

[Yancy Rivera]

Systems Administrator

Operations

The Team 
. The Operations team is responsible for rapidly scaling a sophisticated heterogeneous (Solaris/Linux) production systems infrastructure.
.  We are strategically building, scaling, and evolving management systems and frameworks for a high availability, high growth infrastructure.
The Opportunity
. This Systems Administrator will be designing, building, and operating systems run at scale for a rapidly growing heterogeneous infrastructure.
. Provide large scale data center expertise and deploy a high availability multi-site infrastructure
. Identify, resolve, and prevent existing and future system bottle neck issues in one of the fastest growing production infrastructures on the web.
. Execute the build out of sophisticated systems and configuration management frameworks
. You will work on optimizing and continuously improving Ning's infrastructure to support the growth of Ning's platform to 10 Million networks and beyond.
. Participate in an on-call rotation that will also provide additional collaboration with QA and Engineering for coordinated code releases.

The Qualifications
. Minimum of 3 years experience building and managing a "lights out" data center infrastructure consisting of 500+ servers/nodes.
. Experience in tools creation and application maintenance with strong scripting in one or more of the following languages: Perl, Bash, Shell, Python, or Ruby.
. Deep rooted knowledge and experience administering and configuring Solaris and Linux systems in a consumer facing web application environment.
. Expert command of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, SNMP, LDAP and other core systems administration protocols.
. Experience setting up and managing various monitoring systems such as Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti, Zenoss, etc.
. Strong background in troubleshooting large scale, high volume services with multiple dynamic components including web servers, SQL databases, Java application servers, and LAMP environments .
. B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Please contact me if you're interested.  Thanks,


YANCY RIVERA
Technical Recruiter
Office (650) 561-7082
Email yancy at ning.com 

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