OpenDNS is hiring a Systems Administrator (SOMA / south beach)

Sys Admin in San Francisco, CA

About OpenDNS

    With a long wall of windows that open to let in the cool breeze coming off of the bay, OpenDNS headquarters in San Francisco provides the type of comfortable, creative working environment that draws people to San Francisco. The collaborative workspace, with high ceilings and exposed beams, provides world-class engineers, the industry’s most creative marketers and a bustling, energetic salesforce, alike, with ample space to design, build and share OpenDNS, the most innovative and impactful service the Internet has seen in years. OpenDNS is a short, two-minute walk to the Caltrain station, Muni and BART shuttle — just enough to stretch your legs and breathe in the fresh, coastal San Francisco air before you come or go. And it’s surrounded by other startups, which means OpenDNS talent is in exceptional company during lunch at the SOMA neighborhood’s renowned restaurants and coffee shops.

    With nearly 100% year-over-year usage growth, OpenDNS is profitable, growing quickly and healthily and carries the endorsement of venture capital investments from leading VC firms Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. But perhaps the most compelling vote of confiden

ce comes from our 30 million customers at organizations like Burger King (“OpenNDS is just plain wonderful.”) Eastern Mountain Sports (“I’d absolutely recommend OpenDNS Enterprise to any organization.”) and the City of Portland, Oregon (“our experience with OpenDNS has been excellent.”)

    In a little more than five years, OpenDNS has built the world’s most loved and trusted DNS service, and introduced security innovations that have forever changed the way business and consumers experience DNS. Come join the most passionate, intelligent, creative team in Internet security and help build and scale a service embraced by millions around the world.

About the Role

OpenDNS is looking for an experienced Systems Administrator to join the team and help run a global network of servers supporting millions of users. Your role will be to maintain all systems related to provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, inventory, etc. This means you should be a systems administrator who has extensive experience administering and operating large infrastructures. We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running and work well in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Help architect a global, 24×7 DNS service handling over 35 billion queries per day.
• Help automate monitoring, configuration, and provisioning of services.
• Handle on-call rotation for off-hour support.
• Work with software development to insure supportable, monitor-able applications.
• Provide a high quality service to our users.

Education & Experience

• An unbelievably strong sense of integrity and reliability.
• The ability to be proactive and aggressive, a self-starter and able to get things done.
• Experience running mission critical services that require 24/7/365 uptime.
• Experience with Debian Linux and FreeBSD.
• Experience in a datacenter environment, racking machines, cabling, cross connects, remote management, etc.
• Experience with bash or shell scripting.
• Experience with python, perl, or similar scripting language.
• Experience with KVM/qemu or other virtualization technology.
• Experience with building packages.
• Experience with kernel tuning, patching, recompiling and building modules.
• Experience with common monitoring tools, nagios, cacti, mrtg, smokeping.
• Available to respond and handle after hour issues and be on call.
• Experience with administering high-volume MySQL, Memcached, and NoSQL-like services.
• Experience with multi-datacenter architectures

Desirable, not required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, physics or related field.
• Experience debugging hardware issues.
• Any kind of networking or routing experience (BGP, peering, etc.).
• Experience with amanda, rsnapshot or other backup solution.
• Experience with MySQL replication.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to grow and adapt to rapidly changing requirements.

Perks at OpenDNS

• Innovative — We aren’t a social networking or Web 2.0 photosharing site. We work on core Internet protocols and make them better.
• No ladders to climb — We keep a relatively flat corporate structure that promotes fast movement and flexible teams.
• Meritocracy — The best ideas win, regardless of where they come from.
• Time off to relax — As a startup, we work our butts off. That’s why it’s important to get away to clear your mind from time to time. Three weeks and 10 company holidays make that easy.
• Technologists — We are a company of engineers and technologists passionate about delivering a better Internet.
• Food — Hard work makes you hungry. We keep a well-stocked kitchen with catered lunches throughout the week.
• Frosty beverages — Happy hours are planned throughout the month to get to know your coworkers outside the office.
• Breakfast by the Founder/CEO — The early bird gets the worm, or in our case waffles on most Wednesdays, served by our Founder/CEO.
• Insurance — We’ve got you covered from your head to your toes. Medical, Dental and Vision.
• 401K — We’re set up to help our team members practice responsible fiscal management.

Local candidates preferred / No sponsorship available / No recruiters or principals, please

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