Job opening - System Administrator at Anchor Systems (Sydney, Australia; Austin, TX) (telecommute)

You’re a Dev, have you considered a career in Ops?

You’ve got a few years of professional site-building experience under your belt and know all the good web technologies out there (and maybe some of the bad ones too). You might, dare we say it, be finding it a bit same-y.

Perhaps you’ve wondered what life is like on the other side of the fence…

What you could be doing at Anchor

Anchor makes the best custom web hosting solutions in Australia, and we build to requirements, not to a budget. Your job will be to lovingly configure and maintain servers for customers, often developers just like you. Then you’ll make robots do it for you.

We’re big on automation here. You’ll be getting your hands dirty solving interesting problems, and then automating the solution so you don’t have to solve the same problem again.

You’ll ! be working in a casual and fun environment with a team of equally sharp-minded geeks. Like them, you know how to Get Things Done. Most of all you’re a passionate and pragmatic problem-solver. You’ll do the right thing by our customers, and give them the solutions they need.

Anchor is a supportive work environment that encourages learning. You can expect to learn a lot here, and at the same time you’ll give back to others.

Tell us that’s doesn’t sound like a nice change of scenery, we dare you.

You’ll be kept busy by:

• Maintaining customer systems, dealing with submitted tickets and responding to customer enquiries efficiently


• Proactively handling problems before our customers even know about them


• Learning how to be a good sysadmin


• Mentoring your colleagues to help them expand their skills


• Automating yourself o! ut of a job


• Improving existing systems and proce! sses to better support our customers and your colleagues

Why Anchor should be your home away from home

• Our kick-ass office is right next door to Town Hall station, and many bus stops are within 1-2 blocks


• Workstations with huge screens and your favourite peripherals, your choice of a desktop or laptop


• Well-stocked drinks fridge


• Company lunch every Friday, visiting one of the many of the nearby eateries


• Transparent, no-nonsense and trusting environment – if we hire you we know you’ll do the right thing


• Flexible working hours, because fitting in personal commitments shouldn’t be difficult


• Some of the best coffee in the city is just across the road


• You’ll have the chance to attend conferences like Linuxconf and Pycon, all expenses paid

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