Senior System Administrator

SambaNova Systems is looking for a Senior System Administrator to support our internal engineering teams and to support and improve our engineering environment. In this highly visible role you will:

• Support internal engineering teams by enhancing, maintaining, performance tuning, and planning capacity of the engineering compute environment
• Support and improve the engineering environment from design through deployment, including additional refinement and scale-up to support future growth
• Support the day-to-day operations of the environment including monitoring, measuring, and troubleshooting infrastructure and services
• Automate all things by identifying, owning, collaborating, and driving new or further automation to enhance the consistent stability of the environment
• Achieve and maintain expected productivity levels with minimal supervision
• Mentor and interact with people of all levels of ability

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of broad experience in system engineering supporting Linux (RedHat/CentOS preferred) to include automated OS installation, software compilation, package management, virtualization, OS lifecycle management, diagnostic and performance troubleshooting/profiling
• Minimum 2+ years working with and maintaining common monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Ganglia, Nagios, Splunk, etc.)
• Minimum of 2+ years working with and maintaining configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.)
• Broad experience supporting and maintaining common Linux/Unix applications and services, as well as a deep understanding of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NFS, AutoFS, Kerberos, PAM, PXE, SNMP, SSH, VNC, X11, HTTP/S, and NTP
• Experience with shell scripting, interpreted, or compiled language such as Python, Perl, Bash, Go, C, or C++
• Experience with common version control software such as Git, CVS, SVN, or Perforce
• Knowledge and experience with NFS and NAS storage appliances (NetApp is a plus)
• Understanding of networking layers 1 through 3
• Strong ability to collaborate and be a strong team member