Location: Across the street from SJC. You can watch planes during the day

We're actually looking to hire 3 people quickly.

For the System Administrator, it's really a significant systems/hardware engineer type job. Our solutions are "interesting" uses of common, off the shelf parts, and running systems in "unusual" ways. One thing it is NOT is boring.

Responsibilities:
• Helping design n-tier, high performance infrastructures
• Vendor evaluation of various hardware and software offerings
• Implementation of large scale system management tools
• Support of operational and quality assurance teams
• Deployment of hardware, software, and network devices in a large scale environment

Qualifications, Education and Experience:
Required
• Experience in deploying and managing high-demand, large scale n-tier architectures.
• Experience in working on highly distributed, global operations environments.
• Experience with high availability and fault tolerant hardware solutions for web, application, and database servers
• Basic understanding and knowledge of WAN and LAN routing including BGP
• Minimum of 5 years UNIX (Solaris and/or Linux) system administration
• Extensive experience with high-bandwidth (greater than 100mbit) web sites.
• Extensive experience with multi-terabyte network attached or SAN storage subsystems.
• Minimum 2 years MySQL administration experience with replicated databases
• Strong understanding of basic SQL syntax and use
Desirable
• Big Brother/SNMP/MRTG configuration and management
• Experience with Tomcat 1.4/1.5
• PXE and ComactFlash-booting systems under Linux
• Working on high-traffic (top 10) web portals/services


And for the Operations Engineers (the side of the fence that actually runs the stuff we build)...

Responsibilities:
• Administer and monitor servers used to deliver custom content services via many protocols and networks with high reliability, performance, and efficacy in a scalable manner.
• Perform operational procedures to handle:
Account Provisioning, Enacting Protection Orders, Auditing Effectiveness, Auditing Verification, Reviewing Unverified Content
• Use monitoring tools and other techniques to verify normal operation and monitor network loads
• Perform preliminary troubleshooting and take first level corrective actions for systems and load related issues
• Responsible for Interfacing with technical support on customer-raised technical issues
• 24x7 “on call” duty on a rotating basis – this position will require carrying a pager while on call

Required
• Experience operating and monitoring an on-line service using playbooks, procedures, and monitoring tools
• Experience using Java Technology, SQL, Linux or other UNIX
• Experience troubleshooting system/network problems in a large, complicated architecture
• 1 – 3 years direct experience; 3 – 5 years overall experience
Desirable
• Linux systems administration experience strongly desired
• Experience with configuration of SNMP, MRTG
• Experience with administration/troubleshooting of Tomcat or MySQL
• Windows Server Administration experience
• Other general network or systems administration experience

Please contact me via email for details!

Steve