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Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.
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Systems Administrator
Our operations team has built the infrastructure needed to operate a secure, high availability, high volume certificate authority. There are high standards for the work that we do and the world is watching.
A candidate for sysadmin at Let’s Encrypt should have a solid background in 24/7 production operations and have experience with all the components of a modern datacenter environment. You should have at least some experience with security and stability monitoring, virtualization, firewalls, configuration management, database management, rapid provisioning and systemd.
Collaborating effectively with ISRG developers and the community is critical. You’ll be working with both fellow employees and our open-source community. ISRG staff live in various places in the U.S. and Canada, and we do the vast majority of our collaboration online.
Key Qualifications:
    Experience working with highly-available, internet-facing sites
    Experience in regulated environments
    Configuration management experience (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
    Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development team
    Database troubleshooting experience
    Scripting experience
    Networking management experience (firewalls and switches)
    Experience implementing monitoring and logging systems
Nice to Have:
    Hardware Security Module (HSM) experience
    Coding experience
    Hardware SAN experience
    Experience using and managing security tools and vulnerability scanners
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