This position is based in our EU Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
The area: Engineering
With analytical and code-level troubleshooting abilities to spare, Google.com's engineers are technology whizzes who love being in the centre of the action. We tackle a range of complex software and systems issues, including monitoring, responding to and safeguarding the availability of our most popular services.
The role: Unix System/Applications Administrator, Google.com
Google.com team members are involved in every facet of Google's production site. From design issues to troubleshooting, from performance analysis to capacity planning, from DNS to networking to application [mis]behavior, Google.com engineers are ultimately responsible for making sure that Google always works. We take that responsibility very very seriously, but if you think you've got what it takes then we're eager to talk with you.
Working in the Google.com team, you will wear many hats: first responder, performance analyst, service architect, system/database administrator, capacity planner, tools developer, monitoring expert, and technical evangelist, for Google's entire production site.
Responsibilities:
* Expertise in Unix system adminstration, including configuration, troubleshooting, and automation.
* Fluency in at least one scripting/coding language.
* Experience running high-traffic web services, including requirements & capacity analysis, service configuration, monitoring & troubleshooting, and change management.
* Strong understanding of IP networking, including familiarity with the functionality, operating, and failure modes of common networking devices, and the ability to analyze network behavior, performance and application issues using standard tools like tcpdump.
Requirements:
* BA/BSc in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
* Extensive experience with Unix systems administration and solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python.
* Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience.
* Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment and the ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.
* Tack-sharp analytical abilities and a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
* SQL experience a plus, MySQL a plus.
* Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus.
Interested? For immediate consideration, please apply at this URL: https://www.google.com/jobs/application/application?loc=ie&source=joelonsoft&action=add&job=Unix+System/Applications+Administrator,+Google.com+-+EU+Headquarters
Source: Joel On Software