Based on Chicago, IL, Panopta is a leading provider of real-time performance monitoring. Panopta provides IT professionals and hosts reliable,  actionable data for optimizing website and application availability, as well as managing service disruptions.  If you want to work at a fun, fast-paced environment where innovation is our cornerstone of success, this might be the place for you.

We are looking for a  system administrator to join Panopta's operations team, working with us to maintain 24x7 operations of a globally-distributed infrastructure of more than 30 locations on four continents. 

This job would be responsible for:

• Day-to-day operations of our distributed monitoring infrastructure, ensuring that all parts of systems are up and running as expected.
• Capacity planning to map out needs for ongoing system upgrades, followed by deployment and enablement of infrastructure expansions.
• Development of scripts and tools for automation of system deployment and upgrades.
• Management of a constantly growing multi-vendor virtual machine farm.
• All systems operations needs such as backups, security patches and upgrades that are needed to keep our systems secure and running efficiently.
• Collaborate with our development and product management teams to evaluate the impact of new feature ideas for our monitoring service.  At times, this will include real-world testing of new features as we are heavy advocates of eating our own dog food.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS or Math
• 2-3 years working in a systems administrator role
• Experience working in large-scale, multi-location envirionments with a focus on automated systems deployment and management tools.  
• Strong Linux skills are a must as our core infrastructure is all Linux based (Ubuntu/Debian primarily).  Windows experience is a plus.
• Large-scale database management experience, both for traditional relational databases (MySQL) and non-relational systems such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J and HBase.
• A passion for operating a large-scale environment and keeping it running 24x7, without fear that a mistake could trigger alerts to thousands of our customers phones.

All positions unless otherwise noted are based in Chicago, IL.

All  information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.