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Director of Operations

Lead our technical operations team and have ultimate responsibility for website health, performance and availability.

Primary responsibilities include:

  • Setting priorities and developing a strategy for site maintenance and Operations team.
  • Analyzing the performance of the infrastructure against current needs and planning for improvements.
  • Mentoring and hands-on leading of the technical team. We don’t want someone who just delegates.
  • Working with upper management, and other departments, to align Operations with high-level goals and projects.
  • Ensuring LiveJournal.com adheres to SLAs for availability and performance.
  • Work with remote engineering and product development teams to ensure that projects are deployed smoothly and accurately.
  • General system and network administration duties as required.
  • Release management oversight.
  • Interacting with vendors including hosting, Internet, hardware and software vendors.
  • Reviewing contracts and procurement.
  • Take part in on-call pager-duty rotation.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years experience as a system administrator.
  • 5+ years as a technical manager working with Customer Service and QA.
  • 3+ years of experience with performance tuning of systems and capacity planning management of a highly available, lights-out, remote data center.
  • 2+ years of experience building and adhering to operational and capital expenditure budgets.
  • A lot of experience with open source technologies.
  • Strong leadership skills.
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to present complex ideas in clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical groups.
  • Strong presentation skills necessary to inform and influence a wide range of audiences.
  • Successfully worked with an offshore development team (India, Russia, etc).
  • Successfully developed processes and procedures in a start-up environment.
  • Proven vendor management and negotiation skills.
  • Fluency in Perl or shell scripting is required.

To apply, submit your resume to jobs@livejournalinc.com

About LiveJournal Inc.

LiveJournal was one of the world's first social networks and blogging platforms. Since its launch in the U.S. in 1999 it has registered 15.7 million accounts. The site allows users to set up their own virtual diary and communicate with their friends by posting and receiving comments on each other's entries. In many countries the site's most popular functionality is the community aspect which allows users to engage each other on issues of common interest. LiveJournal has a worldwide monthly audience of 20 million of whom 5.7 million are Russian based (Omniture, TNS Gallup). LiveJournal Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.