[LA-Jobs] Systems Administrator, Canonical

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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/systems-administrator-canonical
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Please apply at:  
https://ldd.tbe.taleo.net/ldd01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CANONICAL&cws=1&rid=924

Systems Administrator - APAC
Location: 	Home based - Asia Pacific


This role is part of Canonical's Systems Administrator team with  
responsibility for all operational IT systems throughout the Company. This is  
a fast paced senior-level position, responsible for maintaining expert-level  
knowledge of all that we run. We are a group of primarily distributed,  
home-based systems administrators, directly running all Canonical and Ubuntu  
services. With a wide variety of both internal and public web services, our  
infrastructure (and team) needs to be world-class. We're looking for  
experienced senior systems administrators who are passionate about Ubuntu and  
open source software.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

You will be part of a squad of systems administrators that rotate between  
three roles.

-    Maintaining all core services and networks including deployment and  
administration of our private clouds.

-    Working directly with a wide variety of development teams within  
Canonical in a devops role to test, deploy, monitor and maintain services  
running on our production cloud. This will require an overlap of development  
and administration skills, as you help write and review code you will then  
use to deploy and maintain services using Canonical's cloud products.

-    Larger project work, currently heavily focused on cloud-based projects.  
This involves bootstraping new cloud instances with complex HA, networking  
and scalability requirements, as well as designing and implementing services  
for the developers and administrators of projects running within these cloud  
instances.



REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

-    Extensive systems administration experience in a high availability  
environment managing large deployments

-    Practical knowledge of IP networking, routing and firewalls

-    Experience administering infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP,  
TFTP, SMTP, HTTP etc.

-    Strong security focus including knowledge of network, operating system  
and application level practices

-    Strong scripting ability, preferably in Python and shell

-    Heavy focus on automation, preferably with configuration management or  
service orchestration tools

-    Familiarity with software development and code review practices,  
including use of DVCS

-    Experience deploying, administering and maintaining services in a cloud  
computing environment

-    Familiarity with Ubuntu or Debian

-    Able to communicate clearly in English, especially using email and IRC

-    Must be self-driven and able to troubleshoot, ask others when  
appropriate and find answers

-    Must be motivated and organised; capable of working from home and being  
highly productive

-    Able to participate in our weekend on call rotation approximately 1  
weekend every 18 weeks



DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

-    Knowledge of Openstack, Juju and MAAS

-    Experience with LXC, KVM, QEMU and Xen

-    Prior experience working from home and/or working with a distributed  
team


Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

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