I work in Stanford's central IT department <a href="https://itservices.stanford.edu/" > and I'm hiring a full time, permanent Linux DevOps and Systems/Cloud Administrator.
There are a couple parts to this position. Primary responsibilities will be to participate among a team of sysadmins helping to manage &lt; 100 Linux systems for different departments and schools across campus: configuring, building, packaging, virtualizing, clustering, patching, maintaining, networking, provisioning, tweaking, scripting, scanning, monitoring, migrating, tuning, debugging, and troubleshooting all sorts of Linux systems.
The second part of the job is also really nifty. We'll be building API-driven solutions from our SaaS investments; expand the containerization of Drupal (and eventually WordPress, maybe others) in AWS; architecting and building out interrelated services across any given cloud ecosphere (for example, tying together RDS, S3, EC2, ELB, CloudFormation, etc); migrating traditional datacenter systems into the cloud — eg, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, Azure, OpenStack. You'll get to work with different departments, schools, researchers.
Working at a fancy-pants university is different. We work for the greater good. There will be no IPO. We don't really move fast and we try not to break things (but we love clever solutions). We're a brogrammer-free zone. We have sane, flexible working hours. We have a beautiful campus, smart people and nice benefits <a href="http://uhr.stanford.edu/stanford-sweeteners" > but there's no free dry cleaning, no kombucha bar, no free organic meals. People really like working here, and they stick around for a while. We like all sorts of candidates, especially the curious and excitable.
If this is something interesting, or you want to know more, email me (Noah Abrahamson) at REDACTED_EMAIL. Here's the official posting: <a href="https://stanford.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=65049" > with more info.