Senior Systems Administrator

Technical Operations

Crowd Science's technical operations team designs, builds, and maintains the hardware, software and network- ing infrastructure that powers the Crowd Science Demographics service.

When it comes to our software/hardware stack, we have no particular religion. On the client-side, weʼre platform agnostic, though PCs are rare. On the server-side, weʼre a Unix shop. Weʼre currently living with Apache and MySQL on Solaris, but have plans to move to Linux.

Crowd Science systems administrators are expected to work across functional boundaries, contribute to process development, and be on call.

Senior Systems Administrator

We're looking for a good generalist systems administrator with skills spanning operating systems, databases, networking, and hardware who can help us scale up our hosting infrastructure. Itʼs still early days, so this position has a good build vs maintain mix.

This is a mid-level position, but if youʼre less experienced and think you have the chops and can prove it, weʼre all ears.

The load characteristics and performance requirements of the Crowd Science Demographics service are varied and challenging. This position will include large doses of profiling and tuning across all levels of the stack. Any experience administering services similar to hosted analytics, advertising networks, or widgets would be a huge plus.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in computer science or mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and building infrastructure for large scale internet services.
• Experience maintaining and supporting a production environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience in Unix systems administration, preferably Linux and/or Solaris.
• Experience in database design, administration, and profiling/tuning, preferably MySQL.
• Proficiency in a scripting language, preferably Python.
• Experience with Nagios, Puppet, Memcached, and Subversion is a bonus.

Interested?

Send your qualifications to engineering-jobs@crowdscience.com.