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''The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring for our tech team at our San Francisco headquarters. The local staff work closely with remote staff and volunteers in Europe, Asia, Australia, and elsewhere in the United States to maintain the steady operations of Wikipedia and its sister projects.'' |
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There is no required geographic location for this position; we will primarily strive to find the best applicant, and remote work is a possibility. There are some preferences: Our headquarters are based in San Francisco, USA. We have data centers in Tampa, Florida, USA and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. One of our software developers works in Sydney, Australia. Finally, there would be some benefit to applicants based in Eastern Europe or Asia for time zone reasons. |
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|more=<br />Also, please provide URLs to any existing free software work you may have done (own software or patches to other packages) if possible – we'd love to see what you can do! Let us know why this position interests you. |
|more=<br />Also, please provide URLs to any existing free software work you may have done (own software or patches to other packages) if possible – we'd love to see what you can do! Let us know why this position interests you. |
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Revision as of 00:12, 16 January 2009
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring for our tech team at our San Francisco headquarters. The local staff work closely with remote staff and volunteers in Europe, Asia, Australia, and elsewhere in the United States to maintain the steady operations of Wikipedia and its sister projects.
- Title
System Administrator
- 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:
- Maintain .deb packaging for customized software installations.
- Create and maintain puppet scripts for configuration management.
- Update and maintain internal documentation of systems and processes.
- Assist in planning and implementing modifications to technical infrastructure.
- Assist in implementing and maintaining network security for server farm.
- Remotely update, install, configure software on servers in all data centers.
- Assist in maintaining corporate e-mail server.
- Maintain corporate security of files and technical hardware.
- Maintain backups of data between services.
- Ensure ongoing reporting of servers and service status.
- Other tasks as assigned.
- Required Qualifications
- 5+ years experience with Linux/Unix server environments including Apache, Squid, MySQL administration. Experience with Ubuntu Server Edition is a plus.
- 3+ years experience with scripting languages, including PHP, Perl and shell scripting. Experience with low-level programming languages is a plus.
- Experience with MediaWiki, Nagios, Bugzilla, Ganglia, WordPress, GNU Mailman, CiviCRM is a plus.
- Experience with Linux packaging systems (.deb / apt-get) a plus
- Experience with puppet configuration management tool a plus
- You must be comfortable working in an environment that predominantly uses and rapidly adopts open source software solutions.
- Familiarity with data center environment setup & maintenance.
- Ability to work unsupervised from given task lists.
- Ability to work with other team members remotely to coordinate hardware and software configurations.
- Location
This position will be based in San Francisco.