Thursday, January 3, 2013

[KITlist-Tech] Sr. Operations Engineer | Elance Headquarters (Mountain View, CA)

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Elance is pioneering a new way to work, helping small businesses level the playing field by providing them with instant access to great talent. Working online transcends geographies, governments, court rooms, and legal systems. We are building the infrastructure to make the online workplace safer, fully compliant, and more productive than any other work environment. And that's where you come in as the Sr. Operations Engineer.

We´re seeking a highly enthusiastic, self-motivated individual who will be a core member of the Operations team. You will need strong skills in implementing and managing high availability, mission critical infrastructure, and should be a dedicated problem solver who can multi-task and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and demanding environment. This is a full-time position with huge growth potential.

Your responsibilities:

•Hardware / OS performance analysis and tuning, enhancements and corrective actions
•Script development to automate processes and monitor system performance
•Planning of infrastructure changes and improvements
•Documentation of implementation processes and procedures
•Stay up-to-date with competing technologies
•After-Hours and On-Call responsibilities as required or defined

Your qualifications:

•Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
•Experience with designing, implementing, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting mission-critical, 24x7x365, large-scale environments
•Mastery of Linux system administration in an Internet facing, high volume, high growth environment. This would include installation, configuration, hardening, patching, tuning, and monitoring of Linux based systems
•5+ years of Linux system administration including data center technical experience
•Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to organize and prioritize tasks.
•Proficiency with one or more scripting languages: Bash, Python, or equivalent.
•Comfortable in a start-up environment where innovation and change are the norm.
•Experience managing and configuring web servers (nginx, apache, etc.)
•Virtualization using KVM or Xen
•Experience with version control systems such as git a plus.
•Experience using configuration management systems (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, etc.) a plus.

About Us
Ready for a job that's part evolution, part revolution?

Elance is quickly evolving and moving into a revolutionary new market space: The online workplace.

Help us redefine the global workforce by building on our pioneering platform. You'll impact the lives of millions daily, freeing countless freelancers to work on what they want, from where they want. All while allowing businesses, startups and entrepreneurs to find top talent to help build their dreams.

We're always looking for A-players to join our team of bright and humorous people. If you take your work seriously, but love to laugh at yourself and with others, want to be challenged but have fun along the way, and never settle for anything less than stellar work, Elance is for you! In addition to amazing career growth opportunities, we also offer competitive compensation, great benefits, super cool people to work with, and a beautifully renovated workspace to collaborate and innovate in.

Visit us at www.elance.com and check out our openings in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Europe.


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