Rajon Rondo is awesome. People might not like him, or think he's that great of a player, but he has awesome talent that nobody wants to credit him for. Check this out, he sprints the entirety of the court in 3.8 seconds, wow.
Systems Administrator at Sports Media Start-Up (San Francisco)
Yardbarker is a fast-growing sports media startup located in downtown San Francisco. We own and operate our own destination site (Yardbarker.com) and host the blogs for 100s of well-known athletes (including Donovan McNabb, Greg Oden, Santonio Holmes, Gina Carano, and more). We also manage a network of 600 independent sports blogs. We have a small but talented team. We are growing quickly, and we need a top-notch systems administrator to help us take things to the next level.
Required Skills:
- 3-5 years experience in Linux Systems Administration
- You are excited to work in a start-up. You understand what this entails (ideally from your own experience), and you thrive on the freedom and challenge that comes with it.
- You've worked with Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) in the past, and understand the requirements of Rails deployments.
- High degree of comfort with a variety of TCP/IP protocols -- HTTP, SMTP, NFS, etc.
- Ability to understand and write Ruby programs (including Capistrano deployment scripts).
- Intermediate (at least) knowledge of MySQL.
- Strong communication skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. Self-direction and attention to detail.
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to build/maintain a scalable and reliable infrastructure.
- Excitement about life, and a passion for building something great. Bonus Points:
- Prior experience with tools like monit, munin and nagios
- Experience with a large-scale Rails deployment, including the Capistrano deployment framework.
- Familiarity with MySQL replication
- Experience with various version control systems (such as subversion or git).
- Experience with nginx.
- Previous experience with multi-tier, clustered service architecture
- Familiarity with automation tools (kickstart, puppet, etc)
- You like sports! Responsibilities:
- Recurring system maintenance (log rotation, backups, package upgrades, etc) and administration
- Monitoring output of system performance meters and gauges
- Participation in notification / alert / escalation chain for system events
- Work closely with engineering team to support new features (systems configuration, testing, etc)
- Maintain technical reference documentation (wiki)
- Ensure that our systems are scalable and reliable.
- Management of internal network infrastructure, connectivity, etc. Compensation depends on experience, but will include both salary and equity.
If interested, contact jobs@yardbarker.com. No recruiters.
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