Systems Administrator - Greater Philadelphia Area

Location: Media, PA 19063 (15-20 minutes from Philly, less than a five minute walk from all public transportation)
Duration: Full-time
Telecommute: no
Salary: Commensurate with experience

Established in 1996, BIGLIST provides email list management and delivery services to businesses worldwide. We're the good guys, helping organizations manage and deliver to their opt-in subscribers. Our system is designed to keep everyone happy: the ISPs who accept our high-volume deliveries, the list owners who use our service, and the users who subscribe to the lists.

Intelligence, motivation, and enthusiasm impresses us the most, so you can be a sharp junior/mid-level sysadmin meeting a subset of the requirements below, or a more experienced FreeBSD administrator. The more you know, the more work you'll get done (and the more we'll pay you).

You're here to learn, too. Good search skills will get you some answers, but excellent troubleshooting and critical thinking will be your foundation. This is grown-up systems administration: operating system optimizations, major software installation and configuration, command-line troubleshooting, source code patching, and sed/awk/perl scripting.

Why work here?
• Smart peers. You'll learn a lot. A whole lot.
• Tremendous potential for growth. If you're smart and hard-working, in six months, you could be running things.
• Your work goes into production, affecting our clients and millions of users.
• Meaty projects. Databases (we use PostgreSQL), MTAs (largely qmail), backup systems, and more. There's even the opportunity to contribute code to our mailing list management system, if you're so inclined.
• Both friendly collaboration and independent work.
• Benefits. Healthcare, two weeks paid vacation and four personal days.
• Office designed by an actual architect.
• Lunch options and restaurants galore. Our office is in downtown Media, PA, which is 15-20 minutes from Philadelphia, with easy access to major highways like I-95 and the Blue Route (476), and five minutes from public transportation.

Responsibilities:
• Install, configure, and optimize core servers and software.
• System design and planning.
• Monitor system stability and performance.
• Ensure 24x7 operation.
• Interact with clients.

Requirements:
• Multiple years of systems administration (preferably FreeBSD), but junior admins with significant desire and potential considered.
• B.A. or B.S.
• Outstanding troubleshooting and critical thinking ability.
• Experience with high-performance systems tuning, particularly MTAs and databases.
• Experience with installation and maintenance of rackmount hardware.
• Knowledge of common software packages like DNS, Apache, NFS, cvs, mrtg, nagios.
• Programming/scripting ability for systems administrators (sh, perl).
• Ability to read higher level perl, php.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.

Please provide an ASCII, HTML or PDF version of your resume with cover letter to:
jobs - sa () biglist . com