[BBLISA-jobs] Junior Sysadmin Wanted - Smartleaf, Cambridge

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Junior Systems Administrator at Smartleaf (Kendall Square, Cambridge MA)

We are looking for a junior sysadmin to join our current four person
IT/Operations team.  This is a full-time or part-time position with
potential for growth. There may be shared on-call responsibility. It
will be a generalist role, not just desktop support.

This team handles everything that could possibly fall under the
IT/Operations umbrella in a small company. In IT, that's desktop
machines (mostly Macs), Samba for printing and file service, Asterisk
for phones. That's a fairly small part of our job, though.

On the operations side, we keep the company delivering the service our
customers are paying for. Linux servers (mostly Debian, a few Red Hat-ish
Oracle servers) at colo data centers run our software.  If it's mission
critical, we manage it ourselves, from DNS through load balancing to
web servers, databases and storage. We've been committed to reducing
workload via automated configuration management for a long time --
so long, in fact, that we wrote our own deployment system and GPL'd
it. Now we've moved systems automation over to Chef.

Our technology stack includes Debian Linux, Chef, Oracle, Ruby on
Rails, C++, Perl, git. We use RequestTracker for ticketing. Routers
and firewalls are from Juniper. Our employees mostly use Macs, with
a bare handful of Windows desktops to support. There are no Microsoft
servers at all.

If you read all that, know what most of that means and want to learn more,
this might be the place you want to work.

You should have:

* some Linux/UNIX systems administration experience - a year or two on your
  own box at home, for instance. More is welcome.
* the ability and desire to track down problems and research them
* the ability and desire to learn complex technical skills
* solid organizational skills 
* excellent written English
* an existing legal right to work in the USA

You must be:

* clever, competent, and kind. 

We offer a competitive salary, fully paid healthcare premiums and three
weeks of vacation plus holidays. Office hours are flexible and occasional
work-from-home can be arranged.

Please send cover letters and resumes to future at smartleaf.com in plain
text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about an interesting
technical problem that you have solved, in a way which makes us excited
to learn more. If you ask questions, we will answer.