Job Details: Linux Admin
| Job Title: | Linux Admin |
| Job ID: | 14 |
| Company: | Ivesia Solutions |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | 70-80K |
| Skills: | Linux, SMTP, Shell Scripting |
| Date Posted: | Sep-18-08 |
The Production Support - Systems Administrator (PS-SA) will hold the primary responsibility for the Production Environment (PE) from both a strategic and tactical perspective. The focus will be on the OS and application layer. The PS-SA will be heavily involved in project related work as well as break & fix interrupt driven work as it pertains to the Operating System and Application layers. The PS-SA will maintain an on-call escalation position supporting the NOC analysts in a 7X24 environment. They will carry the overall responsibility of ensuring that consistency, stability and good health exists at all times within the production environment. PS-SA will be responsible for accepting production code from QA and rolling it into production. The PS-SA will work with NOC analysts and development to trouble shoot and solve issues with production code.
Responsibilities
-Architect, install, and maintain production systems.
-Maintain and implement servers and storage devices, disk layouts, file system configurations, and OS to support specific applications.
-Troubleshoot and resolve OS and application issues within the production environment.
-Responsible for documenting configurations and writing deployment plans.
-Responsible to train and support junior analysts.
-Testing, scheduling and stalling patches and upgrades.
-Testing, developing, and maintaining server and OS Layer standards throughout the production environment.
-Own and operate all support related utilities and software.
-Be responsible for a series of reports on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
-Prototypes and certifies standard hardware, operating systems, storage and third party applications to support the production environment.
-Review third party or open source technology as needed and apply to the production environment as appropriate.
Experience
-BS degree, and 7 plus years experience preferred.
-5 years of Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat or similar knock off (CentOS).
-A solid working knowledge of distributed data base environments, mail servers and mail protocols ( SMTP).
-A solid working knowledge of system monitoring and management packages (Nagios, Cacti, Splunk, Cfengine)
-Languages: Shell scripting experience necessary, Perl preferred.
-Should have experience installing, monitoring and maintaining applications in a 7x24 production environment.
-Should have a solid background with networking management, protocols and concepts. (http, DNS, NTP, Muti-cast, SNMP)
-Experience within a start-up environment is preferred.
Requirements
-Able to work independently and come up to speed quickly on new technologies.
-Team player who exhibits good communication and interpersonal skills.
-Ability to thrive within a team environment.
-Ability to document standards and implementation of new technologies.
-Must be customer focused / strong interpersonal skills.
| Location: [rss] | US-MA-Newton |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Jaime Biggs |
| Contact Phone: | 800-871-1510 x2407 |
| Contact Email: | jbiggs@ivesia.com |
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