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System Administrator / Devops

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Company Name Opera Software
Location Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Date Posted January 19, 2012
Category Default
Job Type Full-Time

Description

Location: Melbourne, Australia, au / Oslo, Norway, no

Opera Software is seeking a talented, engaged System Administrator who thrives in an international product development and production environment.

Opera's strong developer culture and hands-on, technical managers make it a unique place to work. As an Opera developer, you can:

* Join in and make a change-improve our products, technology and organization.
* Participate in a flat, open organization – face to face, by video conference, mail or XMPP.
* Maintain a healthy work-life balance – Opera is family-friendly.
* Work how you like – PC or Mac, your OS, flexible hours & locations.
* Enjoy many team activities, parties, social events and Opera clubs.
* Live centrally in a great city and enjoy the best Scandinavia has to offer.

Due to our continuing development, we are in search of a sysadmin to join our existing team in Melbourne and Oslo. We use Perl, Apache, Nginx, mod_perl, Postfix, Cyrus, MySQL, Git, DRDB, Debian and more.

Responsibilities

Opera email services currently have about 500,000 accounts across our My Opera Mail and FastMail.FM brands. You will be responsible for keeping this commercial email service running with close to 100% availability.

Ongoing development and automation of our operational systems is always needed, to keep the administration workload manageable as we grow across geographically distributed data centers.

Requirements

* You are a good communicator with a "can do", problem-solving attitude.
* You can work independently and within a team.
* You are committed to stability, robustness and repeatability.
* You are able to become quickly proficient with new systems and environments.
* You are comfortable with Perl and Linux system administration.
* You are pragmatic, agile and buy into the DevOps principles.

Ideals (one or more)

* You have experience managing high-availability distributed systems.
* You have in-depth knowledge of Cyrus, Postfix and MySQL administration.
* You have a university-level education in IT, Engineering, Mathematics or Science.


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