System Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Pacific Palisades, CA

Posted 189 days ago in Information Technology

We are looking for a talented, passionate system administrator with devops inclinations to jump into the trenches and work closely with our expanding development team.

You should come with a well stocked toolkit, since you will take primary responsibility for scaling our popular ruby/rails applications to meet increasing demand, while improving (and never compromising) the security and redundancy of all systems as we grow. You should love your work, and be committed to excellence and continuous improvement.

Successful candidates must have the following:

Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs. Including modifying servers, spinning up new servers, provisioning servers, configuring settings, storage, etc.:
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures
Contribute to and maintain system standards
Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up appropriately
Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Add and configure new applications or services as necessary
Automate configuration, deployment and process across multiple environments
Passionate about a broad set of technologies, languages and databases
Contribute to open source software

Required Skills/Experience:

Education:

Relevant Bachelor's Degree in related field and at least ~3-5 years related experience, with good problem solving skills and a positive attitude.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

5+ years’ experience Unix/Linux system administration; Red Hat and Ubuntu operating systems preferred; Red Hat, CentOS or Amazon Linux acceptable

Strong experience with:

Cloud architecture; Rackspace, AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and IAM, preferred
Web servers; Apache, Passenger, Unicom and Nginx preferred
Relational databases; MySQL preferred, Redis, MongoDB Experience with other databases is a plus!

MySql (Performance Tuning, Replication), Mongo (Replica Sets, Fault Tolerance, Sharding, Consistency), Redis (Monitoring and Tuning)

Scripting; Bash, Ruby preferred; PHP, Python or Perl helpful

Geographical Redundancy
Automated Failover
Network Security and Compliance
Installation and provisioning; Chef preferred

Systems monitoring; NewRelic, Server Density, Monit, LogWatch
Content management and web applications; Drupal and MediaWiki preferred
Google Applications

Understanding of:

Application servers; Apache, Passenger, Unicorn, Nginx preferred

Google Applications

Revision control; Subversion preferred; Git helpful
Automated build, integration and regression testing; Jenkins, Maven and Sonar preferred

(Continuos Integration, BigTuna, Rake, Headless Browser Testing)

Web accelerators and caching; Memcached, Squid and Varnish preferred
Search applications; Solr, Tika and Lucene preferred
RDF schema and usage; Virtuoso and SPARQL preferred

Develop policies and procedures for the development and operations teams
Implement security and compliance guidelines (HIPAA, SAS70, PCI)

What we’d really, really like:

Proficiency with (and a desire to master) the ruby language
Experience with system compliance and audit controls (e.g. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.)
Experience with deployment automation (continuous deployment)
Experience scaling both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases
Specific experience with chef and/or opscode

About OptimisCorp:

OptimisCorp was formed by renowned experts in the rehabilitation field including physicians, physical therapists, psychologists and registered dieticians - dedicated to the science of health, movement and function.

OptimisCorp works to improve the consistency and quality of care delivered by health care professionals by providing them with groundbreaking software.

Our tools allow physical therapists to access evidence-based and clinically proven treatment programs to provide higher quality care for rehab, injury prevention, performance enhancement, weight management, and overall wellness.

We offer competitive base pay, medical benefits, a 401(k) plan, an unbeatable oceanfront work environment, the latest tools, and a generous equity stake in our rapidly growing company.

OptimisCorp

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System Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Pacific Palisades, CA

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