{"id":75476,"date":"2017-04-10T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=75476"},"modified":"2021-05-05T04:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:45:03","slug":"wanted-sr-system-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wanted-sr-system-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Sr. System Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-VakVUQyE\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-730x411.jpg 730w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hiring-eng-desk-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Are you a Linux SysAdmin who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? Want to a join our dynamic team and help Backblaze grow to new heights? Our Operations team is a distributed and collaborative group of individual contributors. We work closely together to build and maintain our home grown cloud storage farm, carefully controlling costs by utilizing open-source and various brands of technology, as well as designing our own cloud storage servers. Members of our Operations team participate in the prioritization and decision making process, and make a difference everyday. The environment is challenging, but we balance the challenges with rewards, and we are looking for clever and innovative people to join us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead projects across a range of IT disciplines.<\/li>\n<li>Understand environment thoroughly enough to administer\/debug any system.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate on automated provisioning &amp; updating of systems with Ansible and other tools.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate on network security.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate on network administration.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in the 24&#215;7 on-call rotation and respond to alerts as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expert knowledge of Linux administration (Debian preferred).<\/li>\n<li>Scripting skills.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in automation\/configuration management (Ansible preferred).<\/li>\n<li>Position based in the San Mateo corporate office in California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technology @ Backblaze<\/h2>\n<p>Backblaze is one of the largest cloud storage providers around. That means our ecosystem creates interesting challenges (and the occasional problem) at a very large scale. As of this listing we have well over 75,000 hard drives holding over 300PB of data.<\/p>\n<p>Core technologies we use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debian Linux<\/li>\n<li>Java\/Tomcat<\/li>\n<li>Ansible<\/li>\n<li>Cassandra<\/li>\n<li>MySQL<\/li>\n<li>Supermicro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Required for All Backblaze Employees:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good attitude and willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done.<\/li>\n<li>Desire to learn and adapt to rapidly changing technologies and work environment.<\/li>\n<li>Relentless attention to detail.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent communication and problem solving skills.<\/li>\n<li>Backblaze is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we offer competitive salary and benefits, including our no policy vacation policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Company Description<\/h3>\n<p>Founded in 2007, Backblaze started with a mission to make backup software elegant and provide complete peace of mind. Over the course of almost a decade, we have become a pioneer in robust, scalable, low-cost cloud backup. Recently, we launched Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage\u2014robust and reliable object storage at just $0.005\/GB\/month. Part of our differentiation is being able to offer the lowest price of any of the big players while still being profitable.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve managed to nurture a team-oriented culture with amazingly low turnover. We value our people and their families. Don\u2019t forget to check out our About Us page to learn more about the people and some of our perks.<\/p>\n<p>We have built a profitable, high growth business. While we love our investors, we have maintained control over the business. That means our corporate goals are simple\u2014grow sustainably and profitably.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Backblaze Perks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competitive healthcare plans.<\/li>\n<li>Competitive compensation and 401K.<\/li>\n<li>All employees receive option grants.<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited vacation days.<\/li>\n<li>Strong coffee.<\/li>\n<li>Fully stocked micro kitchen.<\/li>\n<li>Catered breakfast and lunches.<\/li>\n<li>Awesome people who work on awesome projects.<\/li>\n<li>Childcare bonus.<\/li>\n<li>Normal work hours.<\/li>\n<li>Get to bring your pets into the office.<\/li>\n<li>San Mateo office located near Caltrain and Highways 101 &amp; 280.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If this sounds like you, follow these steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Send an email to <a href=\"&#109;&#97;i&#108;to&#58;&#106;&#111;b&#115;con&#116;&#97;&#99;t&#64;b&#97;ckb&#108;&#97;&#122;&#101;.&#99;&#111;&#109;\">&#106;o&#98;&#115;&#99;&#111;n&#116;&#97;&#99;t&#64;&#98;&#97;&#99;&#107;&#98;la&#122;e&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;<\/a> with the position in the subject line.<\/li>\n<li>Include your resume.<\/li>\n<li>Tell us a bit about your experience and why you\u2019re excited to work with Backblaze.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Linux SysAdmin who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? 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We work closely together to build and maintain our home grown cloud storage farm,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wanted-sr-system-administrator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wanted: Sr. System Administrator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-jobs","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wanted: Sr. System Administrator<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wanted: Sr. System Administrator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Are you a Linux SysAdmin who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? 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