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BitPusher, LLC offers excellent opportunities for professional growth. We have a strong commitment to making BitPusher a leader in the managed services field, with customer satisfaction being our number one goal.

Open Positions:

  • Pusher of Bits (Senior Linux Administrator)




  • Pusher of Bits (Senior Linux Administrator)

    BitPusher is a small, rapidly growing web infrastructure company with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. We are seeking a creative, dynamic and highly responsible senior systems administrator (SAGE level IV) to be based in the Seattle office.

    BitPusher manages web servers, networks and other IT infrastructure, both owned by BitPusher and hosted elsewhere. We build long-term relationships with our customers and take the time to understand their applications, their technical needs and their business needs. We customize things as required to meet those needs, but we also keep things as standard as we can for reasons that we're sure you already understand.

    Do you like making order out of chaos? Are you effective when managing lots of little projects, but also have a tendency to make improvements that you didn't originally have in mind? Are you always looking for ways to manage servers more efficiently? If so, let's talk.

    What you'll do at BitPusher:

    • Work with customers to migrate their production services to our environment and to expand and to improve existing infrastructure
    • Build automation and improve existing automation, for server and software deployments and other administration tasks
    • Manage and enhance our monitoring systems, including building custom checks/plugins
    • Participate in our on-call rotation
    • Travel to data centers in far-off and exotic places like San Francisco and Virginia
    • Manage junior systems administrators
    • Work with fun, intelligent people
    What you won't do at BitPusher:
    • Deal with bureaucracy or other artificial impediments to getting things done
    • Have good ideas that no one listens to
    • Be bored
    Requirements and Qualifications:
    • 8+ years of production systems administration experience in a Linux/UNIX environment
    • Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking including technologies such as load balancing and caching
    • Extensive experience with performance analysis and tuning for web-based applications
    • Expert-level knowledge of at least one well known monitoring system
    • Experience as a team lead/project manager
    • Strong scripting ability in shell or Perl
    Please contact us by e-mail only. Please send resumes to hr@bitpusher.com.

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