Senior System Administrator
aervivo, United States
Job Description
Why you’ll be excited to work at Aervivo
We know that most people aren’t happy with their home internet service but don’t have many choices for broadband either. We are on a mission to change that, quickly.
Our mission is to disrupt the ISP industry, enabling fiber-grade connectivity at a fraction of the cost. We partner with leading ISPs and new entrants, empowering them to quickly launch new markets, extend presence, and upgrade legacy networks. Our industry-leading wireless mesh technology, cloud-based service platform and SaaS business model allows our partners to deliver affordable, high-speed connectivity with an industry-leading customer experience.
Founded by the Vivint Internet management team and backed by top tier VCs, we launched our platform to early commercial success in 2019. We are looking to grow our small and passionate team, composed of veterans of Google, Bain amp; Co., Uber, Intuit, the US Military, and Clearwire. We have a presence in the Bay Area, Salt Lake City, and Seattle but support working remotely as we value phenomenal talent over location.
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What excites you about this opportunity
We are building a next generation NFV/SDN backbone to support a wide variety of existing incumbent and newly developing ISPs with our PaaS offering. We are looking for motivated individuals todesign, implement, and maintain a complex network and compute infrastructure. You need to be self-motivated, with a passion to design amp; build solutions with out of the box thinking. You need to be proficient with White Box compute and network resources along with virtualization technologies, possessing a strong desire to take on new challenges, daily. You will also need a very strong understanding of, and ability to implement, advanced networking techniques including EVPN, VXLAN, Dynamic Routing, etc.
As a member of the product team you will be expected to manage projects, identify risk, maintain clear and constant communication with stakeholders, and think unconventionally to drive our PaaS solution forward. This will include a wide range of responsibilities from developing hardware and software designs, which will be versioned and reproducible by other junior administrators, through to supporting our SRE team as they scale our production environment.
Requirements
Why we’re excited to have you on the team
- You live on the cutting edge of industry best practices, with experience in designing, implementing, managing and continuously evolving data center infrastructure to support an organization’s availability, security, scalability and sustainability requirements and create appropriate outage, disaster recovery and continuity plans
- As well as holding yourself to a high degree of accountability, you demand it of others and don’t hesitate to issue a call to action when required. You create an environment where failure and understanding is embraced as an opportunity for everyone to learn and improve
- You prioritize prevention and proactive actions but when events happen you excel in leading through a crisis with proven ability to lead all phases of response and post-event analysis and action, including close attention to detail and effective root cause analysis
- Minimum of 5 years serving in a System Administration, Network Administrator or similar role with 4 years working with Virtualization, Dynamic Routing including BGP, OSPF, and OSPFv6 required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or equivalent experience; CISSP, CEH, or similar certification preferred
- Experience working with databases, message queues, and patch management
- Programming experience in a non-shell scripting languages such as Python, PHP or C
- Familiarity with various operating systems and platforms including (but not limited to) Linux, BSD, and Windows
- Extensive experience of working in data center environments including installing, monitoring, and maintaining servers and networking devices and functions