Job Title: Systems Administrator
Location: North America Foster City, CA
Department: Sling Media IT Operations
Reports To: Sr. IT Operations Manager, IT
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Sling Media is a digital lifestyle products company, focused on creating empowering entertainment experiences for consumers. Sling Medias award winning Slingbox turns any Internet-connected PC, Mac, or mobile device into your home television allowing you to watch your TV virtually anywhere in the world. The Sling Entertainment Group is a division of Sling Media and will deliver new applications and services enabled by the Slingboxs marriage of familiar TV programming and richly interactive web-connected devices.
Overview:
We are seeking a Systems Administrator with strong Networking skills to be responsible for the ongoing design, implementation, and support of systems and networking infrastructure for consumer facing digital media services. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role for an experienced individual with a proven background in building and maintaining high performance, highly available web application systems infrastructures. The candidate is expected to be well organized, and excel both independently and in a team environment, with minimal supervision. Experience should include supporting a 24/7 production environment.
Responsibilities:
Assist in the day to day operations of a 24/7 high traffic web environment as well as assist and plan out new build outs and initiatives.
Maintenance and configuration of servers, firewalls, load balancers, networking and other computing equipment.
Programming and automation of system processes, deployments and infrastructure management.
Design, configure and report on server and systems monitoring, backups and utilization
General scripting, automation and troubleshooting of systems and web applications.
Provide systems support to developers, testers and end-users.
Comfortable in a startup environment with flexible work schedules and 24/7 availability and on-call rotation.
Attention to detail a must; excellent written and verbal skills required
Take ownership of system issues and work hard to research and recommend solutions.
Requirements:
6+ years experience managing Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian) systems in a production 24/7 high traffic web environment or related area
Production deployment experience with TCP/IP, HTTP, JAVA, RUBY, SMTP, BIND,SSH, SSL and others using Linux
Experience configuring and trouble-shooting network infrastructure, including switches, routers and load balancers.
Strong understanding of best practices for software engineering (SDLC), secure systems design and scalable fault tolerant web architectures
Systems programming, performance optimization and network design experience a plus
Hands- on experience with full site deployments from the planning/ design stages to full implementation
Strong code, server and networking debugging skills
Familiarity with Apache, Nginx, Ruby, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL administration
Ability to program fluently in one or more scripting (shell, c++, objective-c, etc) languages
Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix), virtualization concepts (VMWare), configuration management and incident response systems a plus
Good knowledge of RAID support, both hardware and software
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #310 on the subject line)
- Compensation: Negotiable
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