We are growing our Technical Operations team to meet the demands of our rapidly growing user community, and have a terrific opportunity for a Senior Systems Administrator with formidable experience and excellent communication skills. This is an expert-level position in our Oakland, CA office with response to our Data Center locations.

Responsibilities:
As a member of our Technical Operations team, you will participate in design decisions and help create the company's core high-volume systems and network infrastructure. You will be expected to come up to speed quickly on difficult problems, to become a significant contributor to a hard-working team, and to take pride in your work. We have high expectations and are looking for seasoned professionals with experience in a wide range of areas.

Requirements:
You must be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision. You place a high value on secure, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. You are proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges enthusiastically troubleshoot problems when they occur, and thrive as a collaborative team player. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are required.

Requirements for this position also include:

• Minimum 10 years experience with UNIX/Linux administration
• Extensive experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting multi-tier, high-volume, production web installations
• Strong implementation and release practices
• Advanced systems and automation programming skills
• Strong familiarity with server hardware platforms
• Build system automation design
• System management and monitoring technologies
• Significant training and experience in computer security practices
• Experience with complex networking including detailed understanding of TCP and of all levels of OSI stack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 7x24x365 support rotation

Desired:

• CISSP or similar
• Experience providing streaming media direct to consumers.
• Advanced Storage Management experience
• BA/BS or better in Computer Science or a related field.

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To Apply:

Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.