Sr. Linux Systems Administrator or Linux Systems Administrator

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This is a hands-on position for a Sr. Linux Systems Administrator or Linux Systems Administrator (level based on experience) who will be a key member of the Operations team responsible for the operational and technical excellence of the production and internal development/QA environments.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Work with our managed hosting provider to ensure efficient and smooth operation of our hosted production systems including administration, monitoring, scheduling, capacity planning, troubleshooting, support and emergency response.
Ensure 24x7x365 service uptime
Serve as an escalation path for Data Center issues and emergencies.
Create and follow operational policies to mitigate risk and recommend process improvements.
Work with QA, Product Development and Professional Services organizations on timely and high quality email message deliveries, web recommendations, client configuration maintenance and new client deployments.
Manage internal engineering environment including building and maintaining internal engineering servers, QA lab, and automated build system.
Prerequisites
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
Requirements
5 years hands-on experience in technical operations as a Linux sysadmin (RedHat/Centos/Fedora-distributions preferred. Other flavors a plus)
Rock solid Linux systems administration troubleshooting, automatic scheduling (cron/at/GNUbatch), monitoring (Nagios), system configuration, tuning & optimization, performance analysis, backups and recovery
Expertise in Perl and shell scripting. Knowledge of Python or Ruby a plus
Commercial experience on administering scalable, multi-tenant, on-demand SaaS solutions using open source technologies: Web (Apache, Tomcat), Mail/SMTP (Postfix, sendmail, qmail), DNS/Bind, Perl, vsftpd
Big Data! Hadoop, HDFS, Hbase, Hive
Datacenter deployments
X86 Server hardware (Dell, HP, Sgi, SuperMicro, etc), switches, firewalls, loadbalancers
Basic SQL skills (PL/SQL). Relational database administration experience (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL).
Desired Skills & Experience
Experience with high volume internet applications highly desired
Monitoring tools: Nagios, Ganglia, BigBrother, Splunk, Gomez, Keynote, Nimbus, Sitescope
Knowledge of Email Deliverability, Email Service Providers, spam filtering technologies, DNS blacklists, feedback loops, whitelisting and email protocols.
Familiarity with Java/JDK, Ant, Bugzilla, Subversion (SVN), CruiseControl, rsync, ssh, Netapp (NFS), Cognos, screen, make
Experience working with content delivery networks (CDNs)
Networking Experience – TCP/IP, administration of networking hardware (Cisco, SonicWall, etc.), network monitoring, routing, load Balancing, firewalls
Virtualization basics: Xen, KVM, vmware, VirtualBox
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Kovim, Inc.
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