Linux System Administrator
yuilop is an international startup based in barcelona, providing a mobile app based communication service that allows its user to talk for free to any number.
The company is led by an experienced entrepreneurial management team with successful track record and has been financed by international venture capital firms.
yuilop app is currently only available in Germany and constantly ranked Top 5 in the Social networking category in the German itunes store.
we’re currently looking to an addition to our System Administration team. we’ re looking for passionate people who want to share the startup experience of a new company with fresh ideas and big ambitions.
Job Description:
This position is responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of all systems in yuilop.
The systems administrator will support daily operations and help develop strategies to improve availability
and utilization of Linux environments.
This is the first post in a growing operations team and there will be ample opportunities to grow and advance with the team.
Essential Functions:
• Perform daily administration activities for all company Linux servers.
• Help develop, purchase and install scalable system architectures to tight cost constraints.
• Develop and implement administration standards and procedures.
• Monitor patch releases and develop patch installation strategies.
• Perform system backups.
• Provide input to the policies and procedures related to equipment purchase, use, support,monitoring, security, and backup.
• Maintain and extend system monitoring frameworks (Nagios).
• Support 24x7x365 data center operations.
• Support application installation and monitoring solutions.
• Provide after hours on-call support.
• Deploy applications to internal and customer facing environments.
• Support internal development and production departments.
Requirements:
• 3 years administration experience in a Linux/Unix environment supporting business critical systems.
• Good interpersonal communication skills and written communication skills.
• Experience with DNS, SMTP, NFS, SNMP and configuration management tools.
• Network design skills, including VPNs.
• Understanding of load-balancing (LVS) and clustering
• Perl or other scripting language.
• Experience running Apache and other open source stacks in a production environment
Preferred:
• Experience with Debian Linux
• System integration with 3rd party systems.
• Capacity planning.
• Knowledge of J2EE
• Erlang Scripting
We’re looking for someone with passion, experience and proven success that will enhance our team of hard working, fun playing, passionate professionals to provide people around the world the yuilop service so they can communicate for free.
If you agree that the world is changing and want to be right at the forefront of these changes, we want to get to know you.
Start date: asap
Location: Barcelona – First Mobile World Capital!
Offer: We offer creative freedom, competitive salary including employee stock option program, as well as fun work environment in Barcelona city center with a fruit stocked kitchen and more
