Systems Administrator

San Mateo / Campbell, CA

Introduction

We're looking for a system administrator to help us design and manage our network and computer systems.

Our client is a well-funded series-A startup in the big data visualization and analytics space. They have an outstanding team that is innovative, technically skilled, highly motivated, and fun. We work hard, we have a great time doing it, and we take work-life balance seriously.

They are based in San Mateo CA and Campbell CA, offer flexible working hours, a positive work environment, stock options, challenging work, excellent growth potential, plus both scheduled and unscheduled catered events.

responsibilities

  • Coordinate with Engineering to develop, maintain and improving AWS cloud computing architecture, including databases, GPU compute clusters, kubernetes, etc

  • Coordinate deployment of containerized services with engineering

  • Develop local services for our on-premise Kubernetes cluster

  • Design scalable network topology as we grow, advise us on building infrastructure to handle increasing volumes of data being moved on and off premise to/from camera systems

  • Design systems to improve the efficiency of our infrastructure-intensive GIS analysts

  • Handle daily high volume data access to about a petabyte of Synology-based RAID arrays with minimal downtime

  • Maintain reliable high-performance WiFi connections (we currently use Ubiquiti equipment) and 50-100 ethernet client computer connections (Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu).

  • Maintain and improve network (currently based around two stacked Cisco switches)

  • Select and provision computer systems for new employees and off-site computing infrastructure for pilots

Requirements

  • Kubernetes

  • AWS & GCP

  • Cisco switches

  • Storage area networks

  • Designing local infrastructure (wifi, ssh gateway, VPN, cloud storage caching, etc)