Systems Administrator @ Atlassian, makers of JIRA
• Do you think of REM sleep as “garbage collection”?
• Did you purchase your latest computer with Thinkgeek points?
• Was said computer a) a PDP-11; b) a Sun M9000; c) a Hewlett-Packard 9100a; or d) a botnet?
• Then this may be the role for you!
In this role you will own Atlassian’s production systems including customer facing and mission critical applications. You will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining and optimizing these systems as well as assisting our development teams in investigating stability and performance issues.
What You’ll Do
• Planning and executing projects around our critical production systems
• Monitoring, maintaining and optimizing those systems
• Working closely with developers and other staff to solve operational issues with our applications
• Scheduling, coordinating and communicating maintenance windows for critical systems
• Coordination with our colocation provider
• Ensuring the security of our critical systems
• Taking proactive action to resolve issues before they even exist (cf. Skynet)
Key Skills
• Expert ability in provisioning, maintaining, triaging and optimizing Java web applications (we really mean it. Can you explain class loading, log4j, the difference between ajp and http, and which garbage collector the server jvm uses by default?)
• Understanding of Java specific performance issues and their resolution, e.g. garbage collection issues
• Very good written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages such as bash, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers (primarily PostgreSQL)
• Ability to administer mission-critical Linux production servers
• Ability to carry out monitoring and performance metrics analysis using common monitoring tools. E.g. Nagios, Cacti, Hyperic or others
• Ability to set up alerts-based monitoring
• Experience with local and wide-area networking in a Cisco environment
Additional Preferred Skills and Experience
Experience with:
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Dell’s line of server hardware
• Cisco’s line of switches and routers
• VoIP systems
• storage technologies e.g. SANs, iSCSI etc
• hosted environments and remotely collocated production systems
• Knowledge of WAN networking technologies e.g. Routing protocols and VPNs
Typical Experience
• 3+ years as a systems administrator
• Responsibility for mission-critical enterprise applications on Unix operating systems
• Experience supporting java-based web applications
How to apply
Please apply online via our website at:
http://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/jobs/listing?org=ATLASSIAN&cws=1&rid=233
