Senior Technical Operations Leader

[Michael Osofsky]

Senior Technical Operations Leader

Location: Mountain View, CA 

 

NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster
of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a
hands-on senior technical operations leader.

 

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and
insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise
content.  NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically
understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with
relevant answers and insights.  NetBase is being used by organizations
that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing,
manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier,
Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more.

 

We are looking for an operations leader who can establish strong
cross-functional working relationships within a growing organization.
Candidates should have experience hiring, growing, and managing change
in an operations group.  A strong business acumen and negotiation skills
are essential.

 

We seek individuals with experience in the search space and/or
high-volume document processing, including experience in handling large
amounts of data--up to Petabytes.  We are a lean organization so
candidates who share in our belief of scaling with commodity hardware
will be preferred.  Experience with consumer-facing web applications is
a plus.

 

Job Requirements:

* 8+ years technical operations experience 

* Experience with large scale systems (Internet search preferred)

* Demonstrated ability to build complex operations with commodity
hardware 

* Expertise in production network planning and real-time network
diagnosis 

* High degree of integrity and drive 

* MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience 

* Available to address operations issues on a moment's notice 

* Experience scaling to multiple operations centers 

* Excellent negotiator

 

Technologies in Use:

* Linux (Suse)

* BSD Unix 

* nginx, apache, tomcat

* Lucene 

* Java 

* Jgroups 

* mySQL

* nagios

* python

 

Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required.

 

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to
team at netbase.com with the subject of "Senior Technical Operations
Leader".