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About blip.tv

We help creative people be creative.

We’re a fun loving, friendly, down to earth bunch changing the face of entertainment. We’re looking for a few good, extremely entrepreneurial people to join our team. Come join us at our SoHo office and be a part of this fast-paced and exciting scene.

Blip.tv is building the next-generation television network. We work with 50,000 independently produced Web shows — ranging from sitcoms to dramas to how-to to newsmagazines and everything in between — and provide them the services of scale they need to be successful and sustainable. These services include workflow automation, distribution and business development, marketing and PR and advertising sales. We do not take on content risk and do not directly fund shows or take part in their production. Our job picks up once the show is and ready for distribution.

We’re backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Ambient Sound Investments. Our partners include Apple, YouTube, Boxee, Sony, NBC and more. We do about 90 million video views a month, growing fast. We’ve been at it since the beginning (2005) and are well regarded members of the online video community.

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

The Linux System Administrator’s role will be to ensure the deployment, high availability, performance, and scalability of the blip.tv Linux infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Implement software and hardware to support the Linux environment
• Install, upgrade, configure, and tune Linux systems including hardware, system software, and applications
• Analyze system errors as well as specific server / storage performance issues
• Formulate and implement monitoring, policies, procedures and standards relating to server and storage management

• Perform system backup and recovery

Experience:

• Five (5) plus year’s systems administration experience in a production Linux environment
• Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Linux networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP
• Demonstrated understanding of Linux clusters and cluster technologies

• Experience with vendor management

Technology focus:

Operating Systems (Unix, Linux (Gentoo a plus), Windows and Mac OS X), Application Servers (Tomcat / Glassfish), Web Servers (Apache / Lighttpd), Java Services, MySQL administration, Xen virtualization and Linux clustering, bash/Perl scripting, system monitoring and backup, DNS, Firewalls and Routers (Cisco / Foundry), and vendor management.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline

Please submit your resume to careers@blip.tv