Careers: System Adminstrator

About Copper Frog Hosting

For us, enterprise Drupal hosting isn't just a niche, it's the reason we exist. Copper Frog was founded in 2006 by the founder of Metal Toad Media, when we couldn't find a good Drupal savvy hosting provider for our marquee clients. Our sites are designed for high-end scalability, with a target of not just thousands of users, but millions.

As a system administrator you will join a young and dynamic small team building a company in an agile startup type environment. We are collocated with our sister company Metal Toad Media which is a highly creative and successful web development company. As such both teams work closely together for the benefit of each other.

Job description

As a system administrator we expect you to work on the following.

  • Establishes systems by planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of PC and server hardware, software, LAN and WAN networks, network appliances and operating and system management systems
  • Troubleshoots system hardware, software, networks and operating and system management systems
  • Defined system and operational policies and procedures
  • Analyzes workflow, access, information, and security requirements
  • Designs system infrastructure
  • Maintains system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning
  • Designs and runs system load/stress testing, escalating application problems to vendor.
  • Secures systems by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation
  • Establishes and tests disaster recovery policies and procedures
  • Maintains documentation
  • Upgrades systems by conferring with vendors and services; develops, tests, evaluates, and installs enhancements and new software
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
  • Protects organization's values by keeping information confidential

Requirements

As a system administrator we’d like you to have the following background.

  • Linux administration knowledge necessary (CentOS/RedHat, Debian/Ubuntu)
  • Scripting language experience desired (bash, perl, ruby)
  • Experience with Puppet for configuration management a plus
  • Knowledge in at least one of the following necessary:
    • Switch configuration/administration (Juniper preferred or Cisco)
    • Router/Firewall configuration/administration (Vyatta preferred)
    • Load balancer configuration/administration (F5 preferred)
  • Experience in setting up LAMP stack style systems desired
  • Experience with Version Control Systems (Git, subversion) preferred
  • Experience with monitoring tools (nagios, munin, new relic) a plus
  • Experience with Varnish Web accelerator or other web caching, load balancing, reverse proxy software a plus
  • Experience with OpenVZ desired
  • Experience with VMWare ESXi and vSphere/vCenter a plus
  • Experience with Amazon EC2 and AS3 or others a plus
  • General LAN/WAN design/maintenance and concepts necessary (DNS/NAT/VLAN/SSL)
  • Experience working in a data center or hosting environment a plus
  • Team player
  • Problem solver and willing to work in an agile/fast-paced environment
  • Good communication skills and customer oriented
  • Willing to react to system problems in off hours and weekends if necessary
  • Local to Portland, Oregon



    • Please reference System Administrator in your subject line.