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JOB TITLE
Lead Operations Architect
REPORTS TO
Director of Operations
JOB PURPOSE
- To own, create and communicate the technical vision and roadmap for the infrastructure needed to run all of Wikimedia web properties
- To ensure the design and implementation of the operating environment is highly reliable, scalable, supportable, and cost effective
- To identify, design and/or develop tools for operating and managing the infrastrucuture
- To drive technical alignment, particularly with Features Engineering and General Engineering
JOB SUMMARY
- Perform and report on periodic technical audits the current infrastructure, highlighting strengths and weaknesses, and propose opportunities for enhancements and/replacements of current infrastructure. Infrastructure here includes Networking Layer, Hardware (Servers, Appliances & Storage), LAMP stack, caching layer, system diagnostic tools and databases
- Investigate and/or prototype suitable new tools and technologies
- Lead the design and deployment of new technologies
- Ensure architectural alignments during the various Engineering phase gate design reviews
- Perform TechOps tools , technology and deployment design reviews and make recommendation
- Mentor and guide software developers and operation staff members
- Lead in the regular due diligence on infrastructure and systems capacity and performance, and recommend mitigations to address rising concerns
- Perform production escalation support and provide aftermath root cause analysis.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Extensive experience with Linux/Unix internals
- Highly competent with LAMP
- Deep understanding of various caching technologies
- Expert level in networking technologies
- Strong experience with High-Performance, scalable web architectures
- Experience with Network and Systems security
- Competent developer in Php, Python and C
- Good knowledge of various server and storage architectures
- Any other free/open software development experience highly welcome
- Comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment
- Experience with wikis and participatory production environments a plus
- Understanding of the free culture movement a plus
- The ideal candidate will be creative, highly motivated, and able to operate effectively in multiple cultural and language contexts.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 489 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 21 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects. It currently employs 138 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 39 countries or regions.
Apply
Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs
wikimedia.org. Please put the position title (Lead Operations Architect) in your subject line.
Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.
Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file.
Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Local San Francisco, CA candidates are preferred though remote candidates may be considered. ALT=Local San Francisco, CA candidates
