Systems Administrator/Poznań

The Company:

Wikia Inc., established by Jimmy Wales, is the company which manages
various Wiki projects and hosts free content with the MediaWiki
software.

Wikia is a fast growing consumer publishing platform where 40+ million
of passionate people come to discover, create and share a shocking
abundance of information on thousands of topics. Near to 1 BILLION page
views monthly is driven by a few datacenters, plenty of cutting-edge
caches and web servers with a group of database clusters.

The Team:

The Operations team is responsible for rapidly scaling a sophisticated
production systems infrastructure. We are strategically building,
scaling, and evolving management systems and frameworks for a high
availability, high growth infrastructure.

The Opportunity:

This Systems Administrator will be joining at a key point in Wikia's
growth:
- Participate in the proof of concept, design, building, and operating
of large scale systems.
- Provide large-scale data center hardware/operating system expertise
and support a high availability multi-site, multi-national, production
infrastructure.
- Identify, resolve, and prevent existing and future system bottleneck
issues with modern configuration management frameworks.
- Optimize and continuously improve Wikia's infrastructure to support
the growth of our platform.
- Participate in an on-call rotation that will also provide additional
collaboration with Development for coordinated code releases.

The Ideal Candidate:

- Minimum of 3 years experience building and managing a lights out data
center infrastructure consisting of hundreds of servers/nodes.
- Experience in tools creation and application maintenance with strong
scripting in one or more of the following languages: Perl, Bash, Python,
or Ruby.
- Must possess a strong mindset for automation. Hands-on experience
with frameworks like CFengine, Puppet, or Chef is a very big plus.
- Deep rooted knowledge and experience administering and configuring
Linux systems in a consumer facing web application environment.
- Expert command of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, SNMP and other core
systems administration protocols.
- Experience setting up and managing various monitoring systems such as
Nagios, Zenoss, Splunk, or similar a plus.
- Strong background in troubleshooting services with multiple dynamic
components including web servers, SQL databases, application servers,
and LAMP environments.
- Experience with networking technologies and BGP, OSPF routing
protocols a plus.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- English language skills allowing verbal and written communication.

Please send your CV in English to h...@w...com stating "Systems
Administrator/Poznań" in the subject line.

Include the following legal gibberish somewhere in your CV:
Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie moich danych osobowych dla potrzeb
niezbędnych przy realizacji procesu rekrutacji zgodnie z Ustawą z
dn. 29.08.97 o Ochronie Danych Osobowych (DZ.U. nr 133, poz. 883).

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