At Phunware, we’re obsessed with creating category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands. From designing and building the perfect app, to launching it in the wild and building an audience to engage and monetize with meaningfully, we’ve got everything Fortune 5000 businesses need for total mobile app lifecycle management. We’re growing fast (and have the awards to prove it), so we’re looking for the best and brightest to help us pioneer what’s next in this exciting space between the physical and virtual worlds.

Job Summary: 

The Senior DevOps Administrator role is a critical one in our organization and DevOps team to ensure that we deliver best of class platform and application management.

This position requires the ability to work in a wide variety of hosting environments and technology stacks, both in self managed collocation facilities and cloud infrastructures. The ideal candidate is ready and able to take on 20+ billion requests a month, Petabyte scale clusters, application and platform life cycles, and all the challenges that come their way. 

This position requires an equal mix of strong technical skills, cross-functional development team interaction, and the ability to excel in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic, fantastic attitude and be comfortable tackling any challenge set before them.

Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for 24x7x365 operations of our applications and infrastructure
• DevOps interactions across multiple engineering teams and platform and product infrastructures
• Big Data (Hadoop ecosystem) infrastructure support
• On-Call pager duty
• Application and platform release management and maintenance
• Manage through and appropriately address both internal and customer support escalations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from a leading college or university
• 5+ years of Linux/Unix systems administration experience in a high scale environment
• Expert knowledge of OS and networking troubleshooting
• Extensive experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios
• Consistent track record for delivering commitments on time and with minimal supervision
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and self-hosted environments
• Outstanding communication skills - both written and verbal
• Collaborative in nature and with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to interact across a spectrum of development teams - from platform to client side application
• Strong problem solving skills with an owner mentality

Desirable:

• Experience with Cloudera
• F5 Firewall experience
• Strong working knowledge of VMWARE
• Cisco CCNA or above knowledge
• 2+ years experience with Amazon AWS
• Experience with mobile applications, mobile software and / or networking (i.e. TCP/IP, HTTP)

• Fun, casual, fast-paced work environment filled with talented colleagues
• Flexible paid time off
• Competitive salary
• Pre-IPO stock options -  including “early exercise” provision
• Full range of benefits, including 401(k), medical, dental and vision coverage