Our team maintains a tight release schedule to push out a growing set of high quality tools for "equal opportunity activism" on the web. These tools are currently used by a rapidly growing user base of over 11 million people all over the world. Keeping up with such a diverse and challenging technical environment calls for deep scripting, programming and troubleshooting skills, outstanding communication abilities and a great appreciation for excellent documentation practices.

Causes is looking for a Unix Systems Administrator with strong scripting and/or coding experience to join our Operations team.

Working within Causes’ Operations team you will be responsible for the entire site, including our production and developer IT infrastructure. You are naturally the kind of team member who enjoys learning and working with others, responds quickly to site problems, consistently provides useful performance analysis, is interested in service architecture design, is comfortable with systems/database administration, pro-actively engages in capacity planning, has fun developing awesome tools, enjoys improving systems monitoring and so much more!

Responsibilities

• UNIX system administration; configuration, troubleshooting and automation
• Responsible for all of Causes’ web services, including requirements and capacity analysis, service configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting
• Network administration, configuration and management of various types of networking equipment (very comfortable and experienced with troubleshooting the transport layer all the way down to the physical layer)
• Analyze network behavior, performance and application issues using standard open source tools

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years experience with UNIX systems administration
• Excellent scripting skills in bash/sh, Ruby, Perl, or Python
• Broad technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
• Experience in a rapidly growing or critical production service environment
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty
• Extra points for SQL and/or MySQL experience

To Apply

Send a text, HTML or PDF resume to jobs@causes.com with subject “Systems Administrator Position”.