[JOB] Sr Linux System Administrator - Waltham, MA

[Matt Shields]

I am looking for a Sr Linux System Admin for our Waltham office.  Please
contact me directly at mshields-5fTKkSMEW9SB+jHODAdFcQ at public.gmane.org with your resume (no phone
calls or recruiters please).

NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital
real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace
for premium domain names.  A few of our business units are BuyDomains.com
(domain sales), Afternic.com (domain auctions), SmartName.com (domain
parking), Geek.com, Tarot.com, Photo.net/Photography.com.  NameMedia
currently owns around 1 million domain names, and hosts over 3 million
(including our affiliates).

Required Skills
•    Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing
proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to
customers or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely
with upper management.
•    Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes.
•    A solid understanding of an operating system; understands paging and
swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do,
filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use
performance analysis to tune systems. Prefer RedHat/CentOS/Fedora Linux
experience.
•    A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment
concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the
design of consistent network-wide filesystem layouts.
•    Understanding of network based load balancers and Firewalls
(Foundry-Brocade/Cisco specific experience a plus)
•    Ability to troubleshoot a problem from all levels of 7 layer OSI model
to find the problem and find a solution
•    Understanding of VPN technology
•    Ability to program in an administrative language (Perl, PHP, Python,
Ruby, Bash), Knowledge of Java a plus.
•    Be part of a 24x7 on-call pager rotation.

Required Background
•    More than five years of previous system administration experience.

Desirable Background and Skills
•    A degree in computer science or a related field.
•    Extensive programming background in any applicable language.
•    Publications within the field of system administration.
•    Understanding of databases (MySQL and SQL Server)
•    Knowledge of the following a plus:
    - Application Servers: Sun GlassFish, Tomcat, Resin, JBoss
    - Web servers: Apache, Nginx, Tinyhttpd
    - Automation tools such as Cobbler & Puppet

Appropriate Responsibilities
•    Designs/implements complex local and wide-area networks of machines.
•    Manages a large, complex site or network.
•    Works under general direction from senior management.
•    Establishes/recommends policies on system use and services.
•    Provides technical lead and/or supervises system administrators, system
programmers, or others of equivalent seniority.
•    Has responsibility for purchase justification.



-matt
http://www.sysadminvalley.com
http://www.beantownhost.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboston
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