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YOU ARE ...
... a determined and skilled Network Operations Engineer that would love to keep a global top 5 web site fast and highly available. You are excited about the potential of doing so in a mission-driven, non-profit and open source environment. You enjoy solving complex problems autonomously, while flexible in working with your colleagues (including volunteers) who may be at the opposite site of the globe.
You are passionate about bringing free knowledge to every person on the planet and want to use your expertise and talents in making the world a better place.
JOB TITLE
Operations Engineer (Networking)
REPORTS TO
Director of Operations
JOB PURPOSE
Help design, create and maintain a highly resilient and scalable network and systems infrastructure to support one of the global top 5 web properties.
JOB SUMMARY
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Design, install and administer the global networking infrastructure, including network security
- Perform routing policy design and implementation
- Investigate and troubleshoot unexpected network and/or systems issues.
- Develop or use open source Network Management (and Monitoring) Software/Tools that increase the visibility and understanding of the behavior of (sub)components in the system, such as profiling tools, graph systems, alerts, etc.
- Establish capacity planning framework. Monitor and trend key metrics to identify potential performance problems that comes with the global growth of our on-line readership and new contents.
- Explore and seek out new concepts, tools and technologies to keep network and systems technology stack current, updated and optimized.
- General infrastructure operations and system administration, including server installations and configuration management
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Solid experience and knowledge in Networking including L2 and L3 technologies (e.g., MPLS, OSPF routing, BGP, RIP)
- Strong troubleshooting skills and effective troubleshooting methods (e.g., load balancing issues, routing troubles, firewall problems, identify source of application issues masquerading as network troubles).
- 5+ years of working knowledge with Switches, Routers, Firewalls and Load-Balancer infrastructure
- 2+ of experience with LAMP-stack administration
- Knowledge of the systems internals of LAMP stacks and other utilities and tools often used for operations diagnostics
- 2+ years of experience with systems programming and development in languages such as C, Python and PHP
- Strong experience with network/systems diagnostic tools, and networking monitoring software
- Inquisitive and yearn to learn new concepts and technologies and apply them to the job
- Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment
- At ease working remotely as part of a globally distributed team
- Understanding of the free culture movement is a plus
- Experience living or working outside of your home country is a major plus
- The ideal candidate will be creative, highly motivated, and able to operate effectively in multiple cultural contexts
- You are a proficient English speaker
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 (Operations Engineer (Networking)) 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 will be considered.
