System Administrator III

 Tailored Management is seeking a System Administrator to join their team in Fremont, CA. This is an excellent opportunity to join the world's largest social media network who enables over a billion users to openly connect with friends and family, share content, and explore the world.
 
System Administrator III
Facebook, inc.
Dept: Infrastructure (SOE – Ops Engineering)
Location: Fremont, CA
Pay: $80.83/hour
Duration: 1-year contract (potential for extension/conversion)
Benefits & PTO
 
JOB DUTIES:

• Responsible for ensuring company’s home-grown test framework (HW & SW) systems are well maintained and operate reliably.
• Perform regular systems and security monitoring, handle backup procedures and help set up.
• Develop and maintain relevant procedures and standards. ensuring that hardware and systems work as expected and maintain archives as needed.
• Provide technical support related to systems for external manufacturers using this hardware stack.
• Handle patches and upgrades to ensure that systems are maximally efficient and effective.
• Ability to coordinate workflow to ensure all the systems they oversee are operating as expected.
• Provide hands-on system administration support, system maintenance and operations support.
• Recommend software and hardware enhancements.
• Build, configure, and troubleshoot software and hardware enhancements, application deployments and infrastructure up-grades.
• Diagnose and correct computer systems issues.
• Administer custom built server and storage hardware at remote manufacturing sites, from imaging bare metal systems to debugging installation and operational issues.
• Develop and fix Python scripts to support manufacturing testing in Linux environment.
• Help train remote manufacturing test engineers and factory operators on how to use and administer the test framework. Document procedures and protocols.
• Up to 20% travel might be required within USA and/or Mexico.
• Support requires first gaining expertise of the full stack which, in order to ramp quickly and efficiently, depends on having a strong knowledge of Linux configuration/troubleshooting, system administration, networking configuration/troubleshooting, and familiarity with Python (at least sufficient knowledge to read code and apply a hot fix if needed), familiarity with software development lifecycle using source code control is a big plus (and expected from a senior level engineer)

 
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Linux system administration experience.
• 3+ years of hands on experience with Python development for Server, Storage, and/or Network testing.
• 5+ years of industry experience is preferred
• Debug set up and test failures and root cause in the Linux environment.
• Test execution experience in Linux environment using Open Source tools.
• Remote test execution and debugging.
• Setting up automated provisioning pipelines for new test infra
• Knowledge of DHCP/TFTP PXE and Linux kickstart process
  • troubleshooting network configuration issues

• Familiarity with Linux networking stack and commands
• Familiarity with VLAN configurations and switch management
  • troubleshooting system configuration
  •  Strong knowledge of Linux troubleshooting for performance
  • Distributed systems knowledge, debugging client/server applications
    • implementing and debugging hardware tests
  • Familiarity with Python
  • Familiarity with Hardware interfaces (Firmware, NIC, PCI, SMART... )
  • Bachelor’s Degree

 
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Database Administration (e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL...)
• POSIX storage Administration (e.g. NFS/Gluster/Ceph...)
• Test planning and test case documentation to cover issues typically found in large DC environments is a big plus.
• Experience debugging hardware (e.g. Electrical Engineering, PCB Troubleshooting)
• Experience with manufacturing lifecycle working with CM/ODM/JDMs (e.g. Electrical Engineering PCB troubleshooting)
• Master’s Degree

 
* This position requires authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, now and in the future*