Sr. Linux Systems Administrator
Gilbert, AZ

Full-time, permanent position

 

Job Description:

Install, configure, and maintain hardware and software for development, test and production servers. Provide monitoring and maintenance scripts/processes for all tiers of systems, including supporting documentation.  Build and maintain scripts/processes to efficiently roll new code to systems.  Interact with customer technical teams to plan and execute application installations.

 

This role may require periodic short-term travel to seminars, training, and client sites.

Education and Work Experience:

·         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

·         Six to ten years of professional experience in Linux system administration, J2EE application deployment, and production support

 

Required Knowledge & Skills:

·         Professional experience running a production LAMP solution stack environment including monitoring, backups, disaster mitigation and recovery.

·         Proven experience developing processes and documentation to support large-scale, hosted applications.

·         Professional experience supporting server-side Java solutions embedded in the Tomcat application container.

·         Professional experience writing scripts in Perl, php and sh.

·         Professional experience with Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres databases. 

·         Professional experience with LDAP solutions such as OpenLDAP.

·         Professional experience in supporting email servers such as Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim.

·         Professional expertise working with all flavors of the Linux operating systems.

·         Professional expertise configuring Cisco firewalls and loadbalancers.

·         Demonstrated technical system documentation skills.

·         Superior troubleshooting skills; Ability to localize failures in large, distributed, heterogeneous systems.

·         Ability to analyze system and application logging information to investigate and anticipate failure points and to assist development teams in bug resolution.

·         Solid understanding of entire development process, including specification, documentation, quality assurance and production support.

·         Ability to satisfy a Sales Engineer role to architect, document, and effectively describe customized architectures based on application and customer requirements.

 

Preferred Knowledge & Skills:

·         Application development experience or at least ability to read in Java and to understand stack traces.

·         Conceptual familiarity with open source solutions and how communities operate that use them.

·         Conceptual familiarity with portal technologies.

 

Non-Technical Skills

·         Self-starter; Willing to learn/explore new areas in the computing field and independently work to solve problems.

·         Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.

·         Outstanding attention to detail.

·         Comfortable with public speaking/training.

·         Strong analytical and design skills.

·         Strong teamwork skills.

·         Willing to travel up to 10% of the time.

Ability and mentality to support production systems nights, weekends, and holidays