Jaxtr is a social communications startup in downtown Menlo Park, backed by top-tier venture funds and well-known angel investors. We have received rave reviews in the media, and are in the process of moving from a private beta to opening the doors of a service that is designed to be useful for virtually everyone who owns or uses a phone.
System Administrator
We are seeking a system administrator to join us who has demonstrated experience with availability, reliability, scalability and exception management of consumer-facing servers and networks in a high-growth startup environment.
Successful candidates will have:
• 3-5 years of experience in configuring and managing Linux (FedoraCore or RedHat ) systems
• Understanding of fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts
• Experience working in a 24x7 production environment supporting transaction/e-commerce applications
• Experience in automated monitoring (such as Linux HA heartbeat, Ganglia, OpenNMS, RRDtool) and management/alert mechanisms
• Working knowledge of Apache/Tomcat and MySQL
• Excellent skills in writing scripts in Shell, Perl, Python or other scripting languages
• Experience with automation of server builds and deployment using jumpstart or other technologies
• Background in databases and storage/backup/restore
• Understanding of security considerations for consumer Internet sites and personal data
Additional qualifications for ideal candidate:
• Ready to lead site operations department as we add more staff
• Experience with real-time voice-based services
• Track record of identifying opportunities to simplify and automate processes and to standardize configurations
• Experience with clustering of federated machines for Internet-based consumer services
• Experience with replication for InnoDB especially with failover and conduct recovery verification
• Until we hire a full-time DBA, handle database setup, configuration, backup and tuning
• Until we hire an internal IT manager, support IT needs of employees
Responsibilities:
• Setup and manage the monitoring and management infrastructure
• Provide 24x7 support for production environment
• Implement automation processes for production deployment
• Work with the engineers to build redundancy, failover, security and scalability into the infrastructure
To apply go to
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=282991&fromSearch=0&sik=1173483158658
