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Job Description
TED creates produces and distributes audio and video media (most famously TED Talks) to millions of people worldwide. As a System Administrator you will be responsible for the daytoday operations monitoring issue resolution and incident management within TEDs enterprisescale technology environment. You will assist developers in deploying and monitoring software products as well as configuring and managing shared infrastructurelevel products. You will work directly with software engineers on the Technology team technical contacts throughout the company and key vendors. In addition you will be comfortable managing a small scale in house data center and an inoffice network.
An ideal candidate:
Works well as part of a distributed team complementing the skills strengths and experience of the TED Technology team. Task prioritization and focus are critical in this role.
Has a strong bias to action is driven by a deep curiosity about technology and enjoys creating maintainable solutions to interesting problems.
Brings urgency to problemsolving and paying down technical debt with a chaseandattack mindset.
Is a selfstarter who can identify and resolve service issues remove blockers and deliver products.
Exudes confidence and poise under pressure and genuinely enjoys managing both hardware and software.
Has a growth mindset you will learn by doing expanding your skill set.
Holds themselves to high standards for precision work. At TED we use retrospectives and blameless postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
Is a skilled debugger who thrives in complex environments involving a mix of SaaS inhouse software and emerging technologies.
Values crossfunctional collaboration and a diverse workplace.
Job Responsibilities:
Develop maintain and execute runbook procedures to ensure process consistency.
Be serviceoriented responsive and proactive in addressing incidents and blockers as they arise ensuring TED Tech stays online and advancing with maximum uptime.
Design and manage continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflows.
Perform common database administration tasks (backups user management).
Ensure 24x7x365 service availability for deployed applications including reasonable oncall responsibilities. Design new systems to meet performance security and availability requirements and uphold these standards within TEDs technology environment.
Collaborate with software developers to build maintain and debug systems and developer toolchains for both local development and shared infrastructure.
Serve as a subject matter expert (with the rest of the team) in infrastructure technologies such as DNS CDN Linux MySQL AWS and Docker. This role requires a natural curiosity and dedication to continuous learning enabling you to quickly adapt to new developments in the field.
Assist technical contacts across the company in integrating thirdparty or agencydeveloped applications. Act as a primary point of contact for TED staff partners and technology service providers.
Clearly communicate technical constraints and opportunities to stakeholders.
Support and mentor other engineers through constructive collaborative code reviews.
Contribute to the teams overall effectiveness demonstrating flexibility and willingness to support projects outside of core responsibilities as needed.
Travel as occasionally required.
Qualifications :
4 years of verifiable professional experience in Linux or Unix system administration.
At least 3 years of experience with core AWS services (Linux on EC2 S3 RDS) and/or strong fundamental knowledge of commercial cloud offerings.
Experience in installing and maintaining Linux systems (physical virtual and Docker images) at scale (Ubuntu CentOS Alpine).
Production experience with container orchestration systems (Docker Swarm ECS Kubernetes) and deploying web applications using Linux Containers.
Familiarity with using a CDN to enhance website performance and reduce costs.
Comfortable reading and writing code in languages such as Ruby Go Python and Bash.
Proficiency in creating and maintaining high quality technical / process documentation
Commitment to high standards for precision work including utilizing retrospectives and blameless postmortems for continuous improvement.
Additional Information :
Salary Range: $105000 $135000
Strong preference for candidates who can work onsite at our NYC office at least 3 days per week.
TED Conferences LLC is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We invite all qualified candidates to apply online with their resume.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
