Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in network and/or Linux system administration, web or software development, and troubleshooting.
- Experience scripting, writing, and modifying code to improve monitoring and automation (e.g., Perl, Python, Shell, etc.).
Preferred qualifications:
- Current, active US Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
- Experience in root-causing problems in networking, storage, operating systems, etc.
- Experience with virtualization and cloud hosting.
- Knowledge of Operating System internals, L2/L3/L4 networking, and storage appliance internals.
- Understanding of cloud technologies and enterprise compute environment.
About the job
Systems Administrators embrace Google’s motto to ensure millions of users can access the world’s information without a glitch. As a Systems Administrator at Google, you own and support the needs of one of Google’s server infrastructure systems. You’re highly technical and work directly with other server and service owners to ensure reliability and sustainability of the Google service infrastructure as well as compliance with internal policies. Success in this role means you are able to support servers in a mixed operating system environment and work efficiently with our internal technology providers as well as other operations groups. Googlers rely on your guidance when it comes to design decisions so you’ll have a direct impact in keeping the business productive.
You participate in and lead strategic projects that span multiple domains with the goal of improving operational efficiencies and creating design solutions for 3rd party technology limitations. As a leader of the team, you help your teammates refine their technical skills, perhaps by leading brown bag sessions or tech talks, and act as the final escalation point for on-call issues.
Google Distributed Cloud, Hosted is a solution for customers who want the benefits of Google Cloud on-premises. In this role, you will assist in launching and supporting deployed Google Distributed Cloud, Hosted (GDCH) implementations.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers’ engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $118,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.
Responsibilities
- Design solutions to manage deployments and configuration using an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodology.
- Design CI/CD solutions. Help with tier-2 and tier-3 troubleshooting.
- Manage and define infrastructure and how it interfaces with customer environments.
- Troubleshoot system and application issues, including containerized microservices and VM workloads.
- Collaborate with product managers, program managers, support, and external vendors to streamline support and ensure that the team is focused on priority items.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.