Want to get paid to work with OpenSolaris all day? Joyent is constantly
pushing at the limits of what OpenSolaris can do. We're running Nevada
in a cutting edge environment; this job isn't for the squeamish!
Applicants have to be able to think on their feet and be prepared for a
"write the book as you go" environment. If you can pickup a new
technology in a day, your the kind of person we're looking for.
If you are interested, send me your resume and cover-letter with an
understanding that we care a lot more about what you can do than whats
on your resume. Serious applicants only please.
Ben Rockwood
Director of Systems
Joyent, Inc.
Official Posting:
Joyent is looking for a junior systems administrator.
Joyent has been in the business of hosting small to large
applications since 2004, and via its hosting product was
the first to ever support Ruby on Rails applications.
Joyent's founders and engineers have experience with some
of the worlds largest web, email and newsgroup infrastructures,
as well as academic and applied backgrounds in distributed
systems. Joyent also has a series of web-delivered
applications, and every month these handle more
than 100 million emails and 150 million unique web hits.
Joyent manages every operational component of a large
architecture: systems, routers, switches, load balancers,
anti-spam devices, and storage. We're looking for a junior
systems administrator to learn what it is to manage large
systems, to help support customers on this infrastructure,
to assist with various systems migrations and to assist
with the deployment, health and maintenance of Joyent's applications.
You must be willing to work in a fast paced, constantly evolving
environment with long hours and a passion for innovation. You must
also have a passion for community, both external open source communities
and our own customer communities.
We'd like you to be a resourceful learner with an ability to leverage
people, mailing lists, vendor support, IRC, documentation and anything
else you can get your hands on.
Technical Job Requirements:
- Experience with a flavor of UNIX: Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris (we use
Solaris with some FreeBSD around)
- Experience with mail systems: Postfix and Courier
- Experience with databases: SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Basic SQL
skills and backup methodology required.
- Experience with Monitoring: SNMP, et al.
- Experience with some web frameworks: Java EE, Python/Django, PHP/Zend,
Ruby on Rails et al.
- Experience administering storage: NFSv2/3/4, iSCSI, et cetera.
We'd like you to have:
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and familiar with Truss, GDB/MDB,
vmstat/iostat and other observability tools.
- A fundamental understanding of Networking (OSI Stack/TCP/Routing),
DNS, ICMP, PXE and DHCP
- A fundamental understanding of Load Balancing, Clustering and HA Solutions
- Excellent Documentation Skills: Ability to turn problem solution into
repeatable consolidated processes.
- Naturally excellent customer service skills
And if you really want to stand out:
- Located in the Bay Area
- Experience with ZFS-based storage systems
- Capable of using DTrace for troubleshooting
- Experience with F5's BigIP, Force10 Network Equipment and Lantronix
Console Servers
- Basic C Skills: Building and Packaging software. Experience with
Solaris SysV packaging
- Capable of writing automation scripts, preferably in Ruby or basic
bourne. Perl, Python, and Java experience with willingness to learn is fine.
- Experience with DNS systems: PowerDNS and BIND9
- Experience with directory servers and RADIUS: Sun Directory Server,
OpenLDAP, and RADIUS/TACACS.
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