Job openings/System Administrator

''The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring for our tech team at our San Francisco headquarters. The local techs work closely with remote staff and online volunteers around the world to maintain the steady operations of Wikipedia, the world's most popular non-profit website.''


 * Job title

System administrator [CLOSED]


 * Job purpose

The purpose of this job is to support the continuing technical operation of Wikimedia Foundation websites, including Wikipedia, and the underlying software and hardware infrastructure.


 * Reports to

Chief Technical Officer


 * Responsibilities

System administration:
 * Develop and maintain automated processes for internal software configuration and maintenance.
 * Update and maintain internal documentation of systems and processes.
 * Assist in planning and implementing modifications to technical infrastructure.
 * Assist in implementing and maintaining security of both the network and server farms.
 * Remotely update, install, configure software on servers in remote data centers.
 * Maintain backups of data between services.
 * Ensure ongoing reporting of servers and service status.
 * Other tasks as assigned.


 * Required qualifications


 * You must be comfortable working in an environment that predominantly uses and rapidly adopts open source software solutions.
 * Ability to work with other team members remotely to coordinate hardware and software configurations.
 * 5+ years experience with Linux/Unix server environments including Apache, Squid, MySQL administration.
 * Experience with Ubuntu Server Edition and Solaris/OpenSolaris is a plus.
 * Experience with Linux packaging systems. Debian/Ubuntu apt-get a plus.
 * Experience with puppet configuration management tool a plus.
 * 3+ years experience with scripting languages, including PHP, Perl, Python and shell scripting. Experience with low-level programming languages is a plus.
 * Experience debugging live software with gdb, strace, dtrace and any other real time analysis tools.
 * Familiarity with network design and administration including BGP configuration on Cisco IOS and Foundry switches/routers is a plus.
 * Experience with MediaWiki, Nagios, Bugzilla, Ganglia, WordPress, GNU Mailman, CiviCRM is a plus.
 * Experience working with clustered web services in a multi-tiered architecture a plus.


 * Location

This position will be based in San Francisco.