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Join the WhitePages Team
Systems Engineer II
When the pager goes off in the middle of the night, do you look at is an opportunity and a challenge? Does being able to push a button because you’ve automated what used to be a manual task mean that you’ll be back to sleep sooner? The next day will you be fresh to communicate to management why you got the page in the middle of the night, and how you were able to come up with a solution in a short time to keep our high production website up and running, and ultimately kept it profitable during what could have been downtime instead? Do you know how to administer Linux systems from front to back and with your eyes closed? We’re a spirited team rooted in energy and an insatiable desire to keep our product up and running to maximum profit potential 99.99% of the time. We think and talk geek, and are always looking for the best way to solve problems, not just the “new way” to solve problems. If you think geek, too, and have proven experience successfully administering what some might consider hard-to-administer systems for high traffic websites, we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities
• Specify, design, and deploy complex systems and network solutions that support company products in a 24x7 environment
• Manage operations automation systems that replace manual tasks
• Implement and manage automated build and configuration systems
• Maintain and troubleshoot in-house and 3rd party software
• Act as a liaison and subject matter expert between product development and production operations to define changes in implementations that support ongoing software development
• Contribute to the design, implementation and management of systems to ensure high availability and performance of a top 50 website
• Deliver project milestones and tasks assigned by manager on schedule, communicating regularly on your progress
• Support 24X7 production environment, including carrying an on call pager at scheduled intervals
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems, and procedures
• Stay current on system and network security trends and make recommendations to correct deficiencies and improvements to management
• Coordinate with QA and Development teams to support weekly software deployments across multiple environmental tiers
• Communicate effectively with management, co-workers and business partners
• Understand, support, and exemplify WhitePages’ values, mission, vision and brand pillars through actions and behaviors.
Requirements
• 4+ years experience with responsibility for installation, maintenance, tuning, security, and high availability of Linux
• 4+ years experience administering UNIX systems and related software including DNS, NTP, SMTP, syslog, SSH, shell, Ruby and Perl
• 4+ years experience supporting 24X7, high availability internet application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems
• Demonstrated experience managing common open source automation systems such as Puppet, Chef and CFEngine
• Proven success at managing monitoring solutions with open source products such as Nagios, Cacti, Zenoss, or Zabbix
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle, Open Source code repositories (GIT, CVS, SVN, etc), development tools (Bugzilla) and managed workflow
• Strong command of Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 features including compiling, troubleshooting, memory management, tuning, I/O subsystem, hardware and software RAID, and security
• Experience implementing and maintaining high capacity networks with an emphasis on performance and security
• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
Bonus Points
• Experience in a software development & release operations support role
• Experience with the Ruby on Rails and/or mod_perl application frameworks
• Experience supporting production database environments such as mysql, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle
Join the WhitePages Team
WhitePages is a the #1 people search site on the internet and a top-50 website overall serving tens of millions of users each month who conduct more than 2 billion people searches per year. We are your go-to source for the most reliable contact information online. With accurate information for almost 200 million U.S. adults, we make finding and connecting with others incredibly simple—and incredibly free. Our web properties are consistently top-ranked and we power the people search sections for several of the largest Internet properties including MSN, YellowPages.com, Superpages.com and DexKnows.com. Driven by a spirit of innovation and a commitment to delivering consumer value, WhitePages is a highly profitable company and has been since incorporation in 2000. Now we’re building on that foundation to offer an innovative new set of services around connecting and managing contact information.
We value working in small, empowered teams and working with the best people. If you strive for excellence in your work, and would like to contribute in important ways to a powerful service used by millions of people every month, then please have a look at our open positions. If you think you have what it takes, please contact us right away.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
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- Location: Seattle
- Compensation: full time with benefits
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