Linux Administrator

The successful candidate will need to develop a good understanding of the client’s IT infrastructure to:

• Provide day-to-day support of client’s UNIX environment.
• Work with the engineering divisions to streamline and enhance the service offering.
• Ensure that appropriate system monitoring is implemented and supported globally.
• Gather global utilization metrics and report on current capacity and trends.
• Contribute to the IT business continuity process and ensure that regular recovery tests are performed.
• Provide communications to user base for both reactive and proactive system outages.
• Support the adoption and rollout of key ITIL best practices.

• Relevant technical accreditation or successful completion of vendor certified training (Sun/Oracle, HP, and VMware).

• ITIL certification to at least foundation level.

• Strong skills in all aspects of RedHat, Ubuntu, Centos and Solaris including configuration, patching and in depth troubleshooting.
• Previous experience supporting and managing server hardware from one or more of the following vendors; HP, IBM, Dell.
• Good skills in Shell, bash or PERL.
• Experience and knowledge of Puppet or CFEngine.
• Experience and knowledge of Sendmail.
• Good knowledge of the following Application Servers - DNS, DHCP, GDM.
• VMware knowledge/hands-on experience including, server consolidation, command line usage, and backup and restore technologies.
• Must have familiarity with windows server operating systems.
• Experience of technology roadmap development.
• Excellent customer service attitude, written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact effectively with people at all levels.
• Ability to lead discussions on complex technical issues.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Good knowledge of MySQL Server 5-5.x administration, Monitoring, High Availability and Clustering.
• Administration and best practice and architectural knowledge of Iplanet Directory server 5 and Oracle directory server 11G.
• Good working knowledge of TFTP and PXE along with kick-start. Jumpstart knowledge is a nice to have.
• Appliance based Load balancing management experience.
• Previous experience supporting compute / HPC environment.
• Working knowledge of IBM Platform LSF.
• Experience in supporting / troubleshooting NFS issues.
• Previous exposure to the Jira project-tracking tool.

VERY competitive compensation and benefits for the position, including:

• Salary - Commensurate with experience.
• Contributory 401K and Company Equity.
• Medical, Dental Insurance and Life Insurance
• 4 weeks paid vacation and 4 weeks paid sabbatical every 4 years.