The Tor Project, Inc., is looking for a competent individual to fill the role of a Systems Administrator. Qualified individuals are hereby encouraged to apply.
We believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy. We are the Tor Project, a 501©(3) US nonprofit. We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks.
The Tor Project, Inc., a 501©(3) nonprofit organization advancing human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies.
Position
- Systems Administrator
Salary
- $80,000-$90,000
Job Schedule
- Full Time
Location
- Remote
About the Role
The Ideal candidate is resourceful, creative, and able to diagnose and resolve problems quickly. You must have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary teams and users, including some who are not technical and others who are extremely technical.
This Systems Administrator will work as part of a small team responsible for managing the torproject.org servers, which, in turn, allow the Tor Project to create the software we know and love.
Work is both synchronous and asynchronous, coordinated over GitLab email, IRC, and some weekly audio/video meetings. A personal commitment to free and open source software, good communication and documentation skills, and passion for contributing to the greater good are all essential.
This is a full-time, remote position. Salary for this position will range from $80k to $90k USD (based on candidate experience) and there is voluntary opt-in salary transparency for employees and contractors. The organization is currently experimenting with a four day workweek.
Responsibilities
- Install and configure software and hardware
- Setup accounts and accesses
- Monitor performance and systems integrity
- Troubleshoot issues and outages
- Maintain websites templates and static site generators (e.g. Lektor, Hugo)
- Help plan future service expansions and organized service retirements
Requirements
Required skills and background
- Independent problem-solving, self-directed
- Comfortable with working remotely, across time zones
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; train users in complex topics, make presentations to an internal audience, introduce projects to, and request feedback from, the community
- Ability to document systems clearly and explicitly
- Strong skills with most GNU/Linux commands/utilities and familiarity with most basic system administration processes; for example:
- Add and remove user accounts
- Use backup programs
- Manage shared resources (e.g., file systems snapshots, RAID arrays)
- Update DNS zone files
- Install or retire servers
- Familiarity with the principles and practices of system configuration management using modern declarative tools
- Experience with Git, “forges” (GitLab, GitHub), issue tracking, and “merge-request” based workflows
- Ability to manage secrets in a safe and confidential way, familiarity with OpenPGP keys and verification
- Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of Python programs
- User experience with the Debian operating system or derivatives
- Three to five years of system administration experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Debian systems administration
- Experience with the following systems:
- Large web server deployments (Apache and/or Nginx)
- Virtual machine clusters (Ganeti)
- Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Backup services (Bacula)
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- DNS (BIND)
- Email services (Postfix, Dovecot)
- Experience performing forensic investigations, including proper documentation and chain-of-evidence procedures
- Familiarity with Tor’s internal services and the network architecture (for example: what are check.torproject.org and “bridges” are, the metrics services, what is an “exit relay”, etc.)
- Background in documentation or technical writing
- Experience with a 100-machine, ~100 TB of disk site, in a multi-gigabit-scale heterogeneous network, mostly hosted on bare metal and rented servers
- Significant programming background in Python and/or Puppet
- Academic degrees are great, but not required if you have the right experience
Required Documents
- Resume/CV
- Cover Letter
How to Apply
A cover letter is required and you will be prompted to enter this in plain text. In your cover letter, please explain your experience as it relates to the job description, say why you want to work at Tor, and include and a link to a code sample or some non-trivial software project you have significantly contributed to.
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Application Deadline
March 21, 2024
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