Imagine a company that believes whole-heartedly that it really is all about the customer. Now imagine that this company receives the vast majority of its monthly business via referrals from thousands of current clients. Then imagine yourself leading the team that is primarily responsible for this incredible achievement, taking them to even greater levels of personal and professional success.
We are that company.
Are you on the Team?
liveBooks provides innovative web solutions for dedicated visual artists. We are a fast-moving company, committed to hiring talented, innovative people. We seek individuals who strive to reach their full potential while having fun, and who possess a commitment to help clients do the same. We value integrity, careful listening and lifelong personal growth, and we’re convinced that the success of the company ultimately depends on the quality and happiness of our employees, so we’re making this an amazing place to work and grow.
Position Overview:
Headquartered in San Francisco, liveBooks is seeking a Lead System Administrator to participate in the planning, execution, and success of projects related to building and managing our web-based infrastructure. Working closely with company teams this person will support the development and deployment of new products insuring liveBooks’ commitment to high quality products and customer satisfaction. As the lead, they will be contributing hands-on to tasks and directing other system administrators. They will also participate in the hiring of staff.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain tools to automate the deployment and performance monitoring processes
- Conduct and refine benchmarks, develop tools for performance monitoring and analyze and report the results
- Document processes, procedures and performance specifications
- Assist the customer support department in diagnosing and correcting performance related issues
- Create and implement fault tolerance practices, and performing tuning and maintenance operations in a high-availability production environment.
- Manage backup process
- Respond to operational alerts
- Pro-actively monitor systems and preemptively address issues
Requirements:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Critical decision-making skills including the ability to make business-appropriate decisions and to show judgment in escalation
- Team-oriented work style demonstrated by cross-functional effectiveness in an internationally distributed organization
- Strong ability to analyze and perform systems tuning, load testing, capacity planning and utilization tracking
- Proven ability to write and maintain operational, monitoring, and deployment documentation
- Highly experienced with the following: RHEL 3/4/5 or similar distributions of Linux; Apache Web Server; MySQL 4 & 5
- Building and Maintaining Highly-Available LAMP architectures
- Familiar with application and web caching concepts as well as software such as Squid
- Proven experience programming and debugging languages such as PHP and Perl or scripting with BASH
- Experienced with Load Balancing Solutions such as LVS (pulse) or hardware solutions such as F5s BigIP
- Familiar with Cisco IOS, switches and routers (basic routing concepts)
- Backup Concepts and Tape Administration Experience with Amanda is a plus
- Familiar with VMWare, Mac OSX, Windows 2k/XP/Vista is a plus
- Primary focus is management of data-center operation.
- On call responsibilities
About liveBooks, Inc.
liveBooks, Inc. is the leader in on-demand Website creation, management and marketing services for photographers requiring a rich, image-intensive online presence. As creative professionals ourselves, the liveBooks team understands the passion behind our customers’ work and their need to easily upload, edit, market, send and sell images within a Website they can create within minutes without the need for programming or design skills. The liveBooks Website supports photographers’ creative vision with full-screen, high-quality images that download quickly, an intuitive navigation system based on input from photo buyers, and a professional design aesthetic to help develop their business.
TO WOW US: Submit a well-written cover letter that succinctly tells us why you are the one.
TO APPLY: Submit your resume to jobs@livebooks.com