[SoCoSA/discuss] JOB - System Administrator with Ning.com

[Yancy Rivera]

Unix (Solaris) System Administrator
The Operations team at Ning is responsible for rapidly scaling a system composed of thousands of moving parts at exponentially increasing levels of traffic. Our team is strategically building and evolving management systems for a heterogeneous infrastructure that includes Solaris, Linux, and some Windows servers. We are currently tasked with creating deployment and management systems for our high availability, high growth infrastructure as well as developing precise early warning monitoring technologies that dynamically track anomalous behavior.
Responsibilities 
*	Design, build and operate systems run at scale for a rapidly growing heterogeneous infrastructure.
*	 Provide datacenter expertise in managing and deploying high availability multi-site infrastructure
*	Provide Linux and Solaris expertise for high volume production systems. 
*	Identify, resolve, and prevent existing and future system bottle neck issues. 
*	Participate in 24/7 on call rotation 
Required Skills
* Minimum of 3 years experience building and managing "lights out" datacenter infrastructure comprising 500+ servers/nodes
* Hands on experience administering and configuring UNIX servers with 3-5 years experience with Solaris, Linux, and server virtualization (VMWare/Zones, etc)
* Knowledgeable of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, SNMP, LDAP, and other core protocols for systems administration
* Strong background in troubleshooting large scale, high volume services with multiple dynamic components including web servers, SQL databases, Java application servers, and LAMP environments 
* Experience in tools creation and application maintenance with strong scripting skills in one or more languages: Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby 
* Strong documentation and communication skills
Desirable and preferred experience:
* Platform knowledge for equipment from: NetApp, 3Par, Cisco, Juniper, F5, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Brocade
* In-depth, detailed knowledge of Solaris and Linux performance tuning and kernel modification 
* Experience with automation frameworks such as Cfengine, Puppet, Kickstart, Jumpstart
* Familiarity with routers, switches, hardware load balancers, and firewalls beneficial 
* Experience with systems monitoring and management tools such as Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti, Puppet and similar solutions 
* Understanding of storage fundamentals and experience with NFS, ZFS, and SANs 
* Experience supporting Oracle and MySQL