Cambridge MA - Sysadmin in a DevOps world
Smartleaf is a small, profitable, and privately held company which helps some of the largest firms in finance manage portfolios for their clients. More details can, of course, be found in the obvious place:
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We are looking for an experienced general sysadmin to join the IT/Ops team.  This is a full-time, on-site position with shared on-call responsibility.
This team handles everything that could possibly fall under the IT/Operations umbrella in a small company. On the operations side, we keep the company delivering the service our customers are paying for. Linux servers (mostly Debian, a few Red  Hat-ish Oracle servers) at colo data centers run our software.  If it's mission critical, we manage it ourselves, from DNS through load balancing to web servers, databases and storage. We've been committed to reducing workload via automated configuration management for a long time -- so long, in fact, that we wrote our own deployment system and GPL'd it. Now we've moved systems automation over to Chef.
The system runs 24/7, but we have an available maintenance window every weekend.  Every night is a fresh re-deployment. The monitoring system is in charge of waking one of us up, if need be. Long term, we need to wake up about once a month.
We make sure that everyone can telecommute; it beats going in on a snow day.
Our technology stack includes Debian Linux, Chef, Oracle, Ruby on Rails, C++, Perl, git. We use RequestTracker for ticketing. Routers and firewalls are from Juniper. Our employees mostly use Macs, with a bare handful of Windows desktops to support. There are no Microsoft servers
at all. We are interested in teaching you what you need to know and learning new things from you.
You must have:
* significant Linux/UNIX systems administration experience - 6 years or longer
* preferably with Debian or Ubuntu and a Red Hat-style Linux distribution
* the ability and desire to track down problems and solve them
* solid organizational skills and time management
* a desire to learn
* and the ability to teach
* good shell scripting and one or more of Perl, Python, or Ruby
* strengths in several areas that complement our other team members
* excellent written English
* an existing legal right to work in the USA
You must be:
* clever, competent, and kind.
We offer a competitive salary, fully paid healthcare premiums and three weeks of vacation plus holidays. Office hours are flexible and partial work-from-home can be arranged. We are nice people.
Please send cover letters and resumes to REDACTED_EMAIL in plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about an interesting technical  problem that you have solved, in a way which makes us excited to learn more. If you ask questions, we will answer.
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