[BBLISA-jobs] Sysadmin/DevOps, Smartleaf

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DevOps-Sysadmin at Smartleaf (Kendall Square, Cambridge MA)

Smartleaf is a small, profitable, and privately held company which
helps some of the largest firms in finance manage portfolios for their
clients. More details can, of course, be found in the obvious place:
http://www.smartleaf.com.

We are looking for an experienced sysadmin to join the IT/Ops
team.  This is a full-time, on-site position with shared on-call
responsibility. 

This team handles everything that could possibly fall under the
IT/Operations umbrella in a small company. In IT, it's quite routine:
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.

The system runs 24/7, but we have an available maintenance window every
weekend Every night is a fresh re-deployment. The monitoring system is
in charge of waking one of us up, if need be. Long term, we need to wake
up about once a month.

We make sure that everyone can telecommute; it beats going in on a snow
day.

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. Previous experience with the technologies we are using is
desirable. We are interested in teaching you what you need to know and
learning new things from you.

You must have:

* significant Linux/UNIX systems administration experience - 6 years or longer
* preferably with Debian or Ubuntu and a Red Hat-style Linux distribution
* the ability and desire to track down problems and solve them
* solid organizational skills and time management
* a desire to learn 
* and the ability to teach
* good shell scripting and one or more of Perl, Python, Ruby
* strengths in several areas that complement our other team members
* 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 partial
work-from-home can be arranged. We are nice people.

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.