Beatport is the recognized leader of electronic music downloads for DJs and fans alike delivering content in premium-encoded formats that match the professional performance quality standards of the world's leading sound systems. Beatport.com allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis from an impressive library of the world's leading independent labels. Our growing company seeks enthusiastic, talented people to add to our team.
As a Systems Administrator at Beatport you will work on a 4 to 6 member, cross-functional (SysAdmin, DBA, Network Admin), Agile Scrum team building solutions to address business and technology needs. You will apply your knowledge and expertise of high-availability infrastructure design and implementation (including network design, resource planning, systems design, IP based load balancing, geo-diverse load balancing, SaaS/IaaS and virtualization infrastructure) to provide the ability of rapid deployment of bleeding edge services while maintaining infrastructure stability.
Other than administration time, there is planning time at the start of each 2 week iteration where you will plan, task, and estimate user stories. At the end of each iteration you will be involved with release demos where your team shares (with the company) work completed (and marked accepted) within the iteration. We have a highly collaborative environment where the team works to define a solution with our Product Experts and Stakeholders so that everyone can share in the success of releasable value on a regular basis.
Some of the typical job responsibilities include:
Extensive work on Linux systems, specifically RHEL/Fedora based
Configuration and design of Infrastructure services (Kerberos/Ldap/SSSO, Nginx/Apache/Lighttpd, MySQL/CouchDB/Solr, GlusterFS/iSCSI, Puppet/Cobbler/Func/Spacewalk, Squid/Varnish, etc.)
Analyze and act on infrastructure/application monitoring and logging to identify and remedy issues with new and current systems
Configuration and maintenance of Juniper/Foundry based networking
To land this job you'll need to have:
Minimum 3 years experience or equivalent training
Experience with Linux systems design and development
Working knowledge of Open Source software, communities and workflows
Strong understanding of HTTP caching/acceleration and concepts
Working understanding of IP based storage protocols
Experience managing global infrastructure
Infrastructure Programming Experience in python or equivalent
And it will be an added bonus if you've got:
Experience working in an Agile environment and directly with development teams
Ability to take development requirements and design sustainable infrastructure
Ability to prioritize and effectively communicate needs for [security, HA layouts, etc.] and diligence to build each across multiple environments
Experience managing environmental promotion and change control
Experience with large NAS or SAN deployments
Experience designing/managing private cloud technologies
Experience with OSX, OSX server
Experience and knowledge of IP networks and IP/VLAN security concepts
Experience designing and configuring SE Linux and ip tables rules and security
Basic MySQL database administration and configuration skills
Experience working in LAMP infrastructure
Experience working in a PCI compliant environment
Experience building and maintaining RPMs/SPECs for custom and forked software
Experience maintaining custom Linux distributions and software forks
Open Source contributions/development
Beatport offers a competitive benefits package plus a hip and collaborative work environment. Check us out at www.beatport.com .
