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