[Jobposts] Job Opportunity at Wikimedia Foundation

Lisa Hiraide lhiraide at wikimedia.org
Fri Jun 1 00:24:40 UTC 2018


Operations Engineer (Cloud Services) <https://grnh.se/d9e501411>

*Location: San Fransico, CA or Remote*

*Summary*

Come work within the Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation! We
are administering a public OpenStack cloud (Infrastructure as a Service)
with a modern Platform as a Service (Kubernetes) running on it. We are
dedicated to supporting developers within and outside of the Wikimedia
Foundation. Candidates need to be comfortable sharing ideas, providing
guidance, following instructions, mentoring volunteers, and communicating
in public and asynchronous ways (mailing lists/forums/irc). Our team works
remotely and so can you!

*As a Cloud Services Operations Engineer, you would be responsible for:*

   - Performing day-to-day operational tasks on Wikimedia’s Cloud Services
   infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
   - Supporting volunteer and staff developers using Infrastructure as a
   Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) products
   - Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them
   operate at scale
   - Assisting in or leading incident response, diagnosis and followup on
   system outages or alerts across our stack
   - On-call support and off-hours coverage in a 24x7 environment

*Requirements:*

   - Mid to senior level engineering mindset and experience in Linux
   ecosystems
   - Experience offering first line technical support to peers and/or
   customers
   - Solid development history with interpreted languages (Python preferred)
   - Capable of explaining the basic operations of TCP/IP networks
   - Experience operating an elastic computing environment for customers
   (OpenStack, Cloudstack, ...)
   - Experience running Docker and/or container technologies in a
   production environment
   - Demonstrable experience developing and debugging web applications
   - Experience using a configuration management platform such as Puppet
   - Strong verbal and written proficiency with the English language
   - Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience

*Pluses:*

   - Experience interacting with open source software projects and
   communities
   - Experience with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, or similar container
   orchestration platforms
   - Experience with Golang
   - Ceph or other storage management experience
   - Low level systems troubleshooting and debugging skills (CPU/memory
   profiling, C/C++ experience, in-depth Linux knowledge)

*The Wikimedia Foundation is... *

...the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every
single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that
everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge,
and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of
interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences
for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the
volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and
advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that
relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of
individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We
also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The
Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization
with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

*The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we
encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply*

*Benefits & Perks **

   - Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their
   eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
   - The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul
   activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing
   education and much more
   - The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of
   annual salary
   - Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days,
   plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.
   - Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an
   additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in
   after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
   - For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life
   insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
   - Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public
   transportation and parking expenses
   - Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
   - Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of
   treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
   - Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of
   languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse,
   mission-driven and intensely passionate people

*More information*

WMF <https://wikimediafoundation.org>

Blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org>

Annual Report - 2017 <https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/>

Wikimedia 2030
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>


Please apply via https://grnh.se/d9e501411




-- 
Lisa Hiraide
Recruiting Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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