Systems Administrator

Description

Does designing and maintaining networked computer systems get you excited? Are you aware of the latest in virtualization technology? Are you excited by the prospect of planning systems, optimizing network usage, moving services to the cloud, and supporting users? If so, we’re looking for you. Join the Tasktop team and bring your skills and experience in Linux, Windows and networking, and help us to deliver on our vision using cutting edge technologies.

We’re looking for a talented systems administrator to help us manage the expansion of our virtualized environments, including design, deployment, and maintenance of systems to support our web-based and installed products. We build widely used developer tools and prominent web-based systems using a variety of cloud tools and services.

Qualifications:

If you’re driven to design, manage and support computer systems, then this challenging role is right for you. We are looking for someone with:

• Ability to understand and support the needs of a first-class team of software developers and knowledge workers in Europe and North America
• Ability and desire to maintain and support networks and server systems, as well as troubleshooting workstation issues
• An understanding of networks, system security, operating systems, hardware and software
• Solid understanding of virtualization, it’s advantages and how it can be applied to solve specific operational and scaling problems
• Ability to install and maintain complex enterprise software
• Organizational capability to handle numerous systems with complex needs and conflicting priorities
• Extensive understanding of Internet technologies and willingness and desire to learn new technologies
• Ability to understand and work with the needs of software developers
• Support new infrastructures e.g., cloud computing, that many of our customers are using
• A self-starter who takes pride in their personal work and the achieving the goals of the entire team

Tasktop offers many opportunities for career growth and a great environment where you can apply your drive to a variety of projects, technologies and partner collaborations.

Compensation

We provide competitive salaries, ownership via equity, and health benefits. Compensation will depend on your qualifications, expertise and aptitude.
This position is located at Tasktop's head office in the heart of downtown Vancouver, Canada.

About Tasktop

Tasktop Technologies is transforming the landscape of Agile, ALM, open source and productivity tools. Tasktop provides the leading industry ALM middleware solution Tasktop Sync, which enables teams to collaborate in heterogeneous environments and improves visibility of change across the organization, Tasktop invented the revolutionary task-focused interface, created and leads the popular Eclipse Mylyn project and provides the award-winning Tasktop Dev tool.

Tasktop is a fast-growing team of passionate technologists creating some of the most widely visible changes in the software development community. With over 1M monthly downloads of our software, we know that what we do has a profound impact worldwide. We have values that focus on collaboration, learning, transparency, openness, having fun, and family. Being part of the team means happy hour, spontaneous rock band jam sessions and social events.

With our roots firmly planted in open source and research, we are uniquely connected to the academic world. As a result our team has an abundance of smarts, is well-connected to other thought leaders, and has a great source of new talent. Not only do we find ourselves collaborating with people from all over the world, we participate actively in the Eclipse ecosystem and other open source projects.