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
- 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.
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 364 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide (January 2010). Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 14 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 50 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 29 countries or regions.
Apply
Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs
wikimedia.org before January 31, 2009. Please put the position title (System Administrator) in your subject line.
Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.
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.
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.
