Operations Engineer - Discovery

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

• Perform day-to-day operational tasks and some DevOps(deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting) on many aspects of Wikimedia’s Search & Maps infrastructure
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools (Mostly Puppet)
• Incident response and diagnosis of system outages or alerts

• Having deployed largely distributed highly available Linux services supporting millions of users for at least 5+ years
• Experience with the use, maintenance and configuration of monitoring and metrics infrastructure (ganglia, nagios, icinga, graphite, grafana, etc.)
• Comfortable with systems automation software (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc)
• Comfort with shell and scripting languages used in an operations engineering context (Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Load testing and capacity assessments

Pluses

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr or similar projects
• Previous experience managing and tuning large scale Java applications
• Having worked with large scale open communities