Senior Operations Manager - (US-CA-Mountain View - 94043)

Minimum Education: None
Jobcode: L:96800159
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Plaxo is growing and hiring a Sr. Operations Manager. Plaxo started as a different kind of address book, one that helps you stay connected with your network. Since then, we’ve introduced features that help over 20 million users see what the people they know are creating and sharing online – their blogs, the photos they’re uploading, restaurant reviews, and much more. Recently, we’ve joined the Comcast Interactive Media team and will be the center of a unified Social Media experience across the web, TV and more.
 
Primary Responsibilities:
 

Ensure the consistent, reliable, and scalable operations of the Plaxo.com service
Provide 99.99% uptime of the Plaxo.com service for tens of millions of users
Assist in making purchasing decisions and managing vendor relationships for 3 rd party hardware, software, and networking systems
Provide forecasting and analysis of company’s service operational needs (hardware/software)
Be vital Senior member of our Operations team (2-5 Sr. Operations Engineer / Network and Unix   Administrators)
Assist in recruiting, Hiring, and Training Sr. Operations Engineers
Develop systems for instrumentation, measurement, monitoring, and analysis of the health and reliability of the service
Be the senior member of a team that will Respond and Troubleshoot all Hardware / Software / Networking issues that come up 24x7x365
Help Design, Build, and Scale all Plaxo Software
Work closely with the Server Engineering team to understand the product as its being developed
Own all production configuration and deployment tasks
Automate the operations of the service

 
Skills/Qualifications:
 

2-3 years management or lead experience required
Strong expertise in UNIX/Linux systems
Strong TCP/IP Networking experience
Scripting/programming expertise
Strong metrics gathering/analysis skills a plus
Experience with a variety of H/W products (firewalls, routers, servers, etc.)
MySQL installation, configuration, and administration at scale
Extremely organized and accountable
Excellent communication skills
Experience designing, building, operating and scaling a consumer internet service from scratch for tens of millions of customers.
BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent To Apply: please send qualified resumes to