Avvo, Inc.
Position: Senior System Administrator
Where: Seattle
What: Avvo is the largest medical and legal resource online that empowers consumers with the information and expert-only advice they need to confidently make the right decisions about their health and legal needs. We are looking for top-notch Senior System Administrator to oversee both our production and corporate IT infrastructure.
Launched in 2007, Avvo is privately held, with funding from Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners and DAG Ventures. Avvo has gone from concept to market leader in four years and is located in downtown Seattle.
Responsibilities: We are looking for top-notch Senior System Administrator to oversee both our production and corporate IT infrastructure. And, as senior member of our engineering team, you will become our technical resident expert and team mentor. This position will report directly to our CTO and is a great opportunity to play a critical role in the development of Avvo.
Responsibilities:
• Support and manage all of Avvo IT operations and infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain appropriate IT policies and procedures for both production and corporate environments.
• Provide guidance and expertise to engineering staff on a diverse array of issues, including: performance tuning, application deployment, systems security, and scalable architectures.
• Remote support and on-call duties.
• Manage relationships with outside vendors and service providers.
Requirements:
• Minimum 5 years of combined professional experience with Unix/Linux (minimum 3 years of Linux experience). Debian GNU/Linux preferred.
• Experience managing production web infrastructure (Linux, Apache, and Rails) and also Linux-Windows corporate environment.
• Capacity to write scripts for systems automation. Experience in Ruby, Puppet and Chef, and Capistrano is highly preferred.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP Networking, VLANs, Cisco Routers and Switches, Load Balancers, and Firewalls.
• Experience working with system and network monitoring tools: Nagios, Munin, and Cacti.
• Experience with MySQL is highly desirable. General working knowledge of SQL is required.
• Must have excellent communication, organization, and teamwork skills.
• Must be dependable with a great work ethic, demonstrated initiative, ownership of issues, and exceptional attitude.
• Highly flexible, adaptable, and able to deal with uncertainty in a start-up company atmosphere.
• Relevant BS degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred.
Contact: [email protected]
