Systems Administrator (Berlin)
You are a skilled system administrator with many years of experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to best build up a performant and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers. You're are flexible, down with startup life, keen on new challenges, and you're a team player. And oh, you love music!
You'll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe as a systems administrator to provide technical support and administration to the ever-growing number of machines running soundcloud.com.
Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud
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Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools
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Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
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Define, document, and maintain the system and network architecture within soundcloud.com
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Identify and recommend future technology and architectural advancements to support soundcloud.com, technology migration, integration, and evolution
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Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity
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Work with our hosting providers to resolve issues and perform updates
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System failure analysis and recovery
Knowledge and skills required
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At least 5 years professional systems maintenance experience in a Unix environment, preferably Linux and/or Solaris
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Great shell programming skills
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Deep knowledge of all things networks
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Security auditioning skills
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Knowledge of server hardware and architecture
Valuable Additional Skills
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Experience with large-scale (1 petabyte+) storage systems
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Fluency in the nginx/Thin/MySQL/*nix stack
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Great SQL skills, including complex queries and optimization
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Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
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Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
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Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
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Experience with Amazon Web Services
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs+sysadmin@soundcloud.com.
