[Discuss] [Position-available] Sr and Jr Linux System Engineers

[Matt Shields]

We have a couple positions open for both Sr & Jr Linux System Engineers.
Please contact me directly if interested.

Position Overview: The Systems Engineer is responsible for building,
implementing, and managing products and solutions for production
environment, while ensuring 24/7 availability. The position will require an
excellent understanding of LAMP stack technologies along with windows
services and configuration. The ideal candidate will have proven technical
experience with a solid foundation of operating system and networking
skills along with a positive attitude.

Location: South Boston (near South Station)

Compensation: commensurate with experience

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k, plus more

Job Type: Permanent, Direct Hire

Responsibilities:
* Design, build, implement, and manage products and solutions for
production environment
* Monitor and maintain all production system equipment and services
* Participate in the planning and coordination of new product deployment
and enhancement projects, ensuring preparedness in servicing the product
* Ensure 24/7 availability of the production application environment. This
will include 24/7 on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis.
* Develop system analysis and reporting tools and tools for task automation
* Document technical environments, processes and procedures, testing plans,
project plans.
* Provide direct support to Software Development, Quality Engineering,
Customer Support, Professional Services and third party vendors as needed
to resolve production problems
* Maintain network and systems configurations for national and
international data centers.

Required Skills and Experience:
* Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
* 3+ years total experience with systems administration, as well as
hardware and software troubleshooting
* Must work well in high pressure environments
* Redhat or CentOS
* Windows server 2003, 2008
* Solid understanding of TCP/IP, network devices such as switches, hubs,
routers, firewalls
* JBoss/TomCat/Apache
* Shell, PHP, Perl or Python scripting
* Previous experience in a SaaS and/or high volume website environment
preferred
* Experience in automation and managing large server environments

Skills that are considered a plus:
* LDAP/Kerberos authentication against Microsoft Active Directory
* SAN and NAS technologies (iSCSI, FCP, CIFS, NFS, etc)
* Java/Tomcat
* Open Source Project experience
* Previous oncall experience
* Puppet/CFEngine
* Splunk/SyslogNG

Matthew Shields
www.sysadminvalley.com
www.jeeprally.com