Senior Systems Administrator

Offerpal Media is a Web 2.0 online advertising start-up that provides an innovative online consumer acquisition service on a pay-for-performance basis. We enable online merchants and advertisers to grow revenues, acquire quality customers and maximize brand reach through blogs, websites and social networks. Located in Fremont, CA, we are a fast growing startup company founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and funded by top-tier VCs.

Our technical team has experience building and deploying large scale distributed applications and web scale optimization technologies. We are looking to add an architect level systems administrator to our ops team.

Main Areas of Responsibility

  • Systems administration functions for our production LAMP stack, Java and Oracle databases
  • Maintaining core systems on the Linux platform including Databases, Mail, DNS, Proxy, Firewalls and Load Balancers
  • Establishing and managing development environments for software developers, including creation of environments and installation of software
  • Establishing and monitoring backup and recovery systems
  • Rapidly scale systems to meet demand
  • Monitor system stability and performance
  • Configure system and network parameters
  • Automate the release processes

Professional Experience Required

  • 7+ years experience of building, managing, and responding to monitoring systems, measuring critical system performance
  • 3+ years of experience with Perl or shell scripting
  • 5+years experience in a 24/7 datacenter environment
  • SQL experience is a plus.
  • Business to consumer or SaaS experience is a plus
  • 3+ years experience building and managing load-balanced web server clusters with Apache, PHP, MySQL
  • 3+ years experience with backup and recovery
  • Solid experience with DNS, SMTP, transfer (SSH, SCP, Rsync), SVN.
  • 5+ years experience with Linux and Windows systems.
  • Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management

Why Should You Join Us?

We offer a flexible, fun and friendly work environment. We are passionate about providing a great experience to our consumers. We have created an environment where our talented and energetic team can excel and have fun doing it. If this position sounds like a perfect fit with your past experience and future professional interests, and you want to be part of the excitement of a rapidly growing business, we want to hear from you! Our compensation includes competitive salary, generous stock option package plus great benefits. Of course we have a game room!

Send your resume and cover letter to Naghi Prasad at nprasad@myofferpal.com.