Systems Administrator (Washington, D.C. or U.S. Remote)
Wallethub
WalletHub, the #1 Personal Finance App in the US and one of Forbes’ Top 100 Best StartUp Employers in both 2020 and 2021, is rapidly growing and eager to add new members to our technical team. We’re looking for a highly skilled and motivated Systems Administrator for a full-time, permanent position.
Requirements
You are the ideal candidate for this job if you have:
- 5+ years of total work experience
- 3+ years of experience administering UNIX/Linux server required (or equivalent work experience)
- 3+ years of experience with Apache, Tomcat and any other Java application servers and relational database servers like MySQL (LAMP experience is highly preferred)
- Experience with configuring and securing mission-critical production servers
- Experience with configuring load balancers and data
- Experience in Scripting, with experience implementing automation and monitoring using shell scripting and Python
- Experience in analysis and system performance tuning
- Critical thinking skills in a complex IT environment to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve problems without direction
- Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
- Willingness to work hard (50 hrs per week min.)
Good to have but not required:
- Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, tripwire, aide and other custom monitoring tools
Responsibilities
- Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for the infrastructure and be the on-call for production servers
- Develop security monitoring and other tools to ensure the integrity and availability of our applications, server resources, reviewing system and application logs
- Work with the incident team to diagnose and recover from hardware or software failures working with or as the Incident Commander to coordinate and communicate with our internal customers
- Assist project teams with technical issues during development efforts
- Gather system requirements and support several project teams in evolving, testing, and rolling-out new products and services, then transitioning the site or product to post launch operations activities throughout the life of the product or service
- Work with the application development team and other systems engineers to make improvements to current infrastructure
- Document processes and procedures and follow a formal change management procedure
Our Offer
- Very competitive salary based on prior experience and qualifications
- Potential for stock options after the first year
- Raise and advancement opportunities based on periodic evaluations
- Health benefits (if working from our office in Washington, D.C.)
- Visa sponsorship (if working from our office in Washington, D.C.)
Notes
This position requires candidates to be living in the US. The position can be performed remotely if you don't live in the Washington, D.C. area.
Although we appreciate your interest in working with us, due to the high number of applications we receive, we will only be able to respond to successful applicants.
Our company is CCPA compliant: https://wallethub.com/blog/ccpa-candidates/76644.
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