Sysadmin Factual

Description: Factual is looking for an experienced and interested Sys Admin to help handle the management and growth of our internal computing and network infrastructure. We're a pretty technical group of people working in a relaxed environment with various demanding infrastructure needs. There's almost no 24/7 component to this job but there are a lot of machines and systems to keep configured and happy and we have a very high standard of careful, detail-oriented, responsive professionalism.
Job duties include:

- Design, implement and maintain computing and networking infrastructure
- Repair and recover from hardware or software failures
- System/network monitoring & troubleshooting
- Automate routine systems administration tasks
- Open source project installation
- Have the ability to and are comfortable supporting end users running Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Participate in on-call rotation duties

Required:

- Extensive Linux experience (Debian, Ubuntu)
- Strong understanding of network protocols and security
- Thrive in a start-up environment and enjoy wearing many hats
- Experience with most of the following: LVS, Apache, postgresql, nagios, mrtg, dns, dhcp
- Scripting and programming skills (shell, awk, perl, ruby)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice-to-haves:

- BS in Computer Science
- Hadoop experience
- EC2 experience
- Chef or Puppet expertise
- Virtualization experience (Xen, VMWare).

Location:	Los Angleles, CA United States