Wednesday, September 19, 2007

System Administrator at Etsy Inc.

Location: United States

Etsy is seeking a bright and seasoned mid-level System Administrator to help build and maintain our network and systems. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated and fun to work with. As a member of Etsy's Site Operations, you will be on call at regular intervals to support our high-availability/high-traffic web environment and need to commute as needed to our data center in northern New Jersey. You must have at least 3 years of experience in managing high-availability/high-traffic web systems.

Job Responsibilities:

Support and collaborate with development team on product architecture and capacity planning
Work together with systems administrators and engineering to resolve technical and capacity issues on the site

Job Requirements:
  • Experience running large applications with a 100% uptime requirement in large scale distributed environments
  • Extensive experience administering Linux environments focusing on
  • production stability, deployment, centralized authentication, et cetera
  • Provide performance tuning and automation for applications, systems, and network using Perl/Python/shell/Java
  • In depth knowledge of how web services and web frameworks operate
  • Proven leadership / technical troubleshooting abilities
  • Strong hardware and software diagnostics skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to produce
  • written documentation for a technical and non-technical audience
  • Positive attitude and willingness to take on new responsibilities
  • Significant build/release experience a plus
Required Technologies:
  • Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo)
  • OpenBSD
  • Cisco Hardware
  • Lighttpd
  • Squid
  • Shell scripting
  • Nagios
Additional Technologies:
  • GFS (Global File System)
  • SAN Administration
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
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