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Lead Systems Administrator
at Avvo in Seattle, WA
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Jan 01, 2009
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Overview
Avvo is looking for top-notch Lead Systems Administrator to support and manage our IT operations and infrastructure. And, as senior member of our engineering team, you will become our technical resident expert on systems infrastructure. This position will report directly to our CTO and is a great opportunity to play a critical role in the development of Avvo.
Responsibilities
Support and manage Avvo IT operations and infrastructure.
Establish and maintain appropriate IT policies and procedures for both production and corporate environments.
Provide guidance and expertise to engineering staff on a diverse array of issues, including: performance tuning, application deployment, systems security, and scalable architectures.
Remote support and on-call duties.
Manage relationships with outside vendors and service providers.
Gradually build IT team of engineers in a fast moving startup environment.
Experience
Minimum 7 years of combined professional experience with Unix/Linux (minimum 3 years of Linux experience). Debian GNU/Linux preferred.
Experience managing production web infrastructure (Linux, Apache, and Rails) and also Linux-Windows corporate environment.
Capacity to write scripts for systems automation. Experience in Ruby, Puppet, or Capistrano is highly preferred.
Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, VLANs, Cisco routers & switches, load balancers, and firewalls.
Experience working with system and network monitoring tools: Nagios, Munin, or Cacti.
Experience with MySQL is highly desirable. General working knowledge of SQL is required.
Must have excellent communication, organization, and teamwork skills.
Must be dependable with a great work ethic, demonstrated initiative, ownership of issues, and exceptional attitude.
Highly flexible, adaptable, and able to deal with uncertainty in a start-up company atmosphere.
Although initially a team of one, must have experience or potential to hire and manage a team.
Education
Relevant BS degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred.
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