Our client, a leading provider of internet media advertising delivery and performance monitoring, is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for its Midtown Manhattan office. Details below.
Regards,
Daren J. Mongello
J. Patrick & Associates, Inc.
Direct: (212) 785-0765
Since 1991, J. Patrick & Associates, Inc. has specialized in Executive Search for the various Technology industries, primarily for Sales, Marketing and Engineering. Our clients are Technology Vendors, Systems Integrators, Distributors/Resellers, Service Providers and End User organizations. J. Patrick handles both permanent placement and temporary consulting assignments, on a contingency or retained basis. | Additional Keywords: | | |
| Published Description: | | This is a full-time, direct hire. No relocations No sponsorship No H1b No contractor, consultants.
Responsibilities - The Linux Systems Administrator will be responsible for supporting the infrastructure and systems for our client's global infrastructure, as well as the software development and QA environments.
- The Linux SA will support a team of software engineers, architects, project managers, developers, QA and UAT teams.
- The role will include monitoring the performance of a proprietary real-time global delivery and tracking system effective diagnosis of capacity, security and various third party issues across our client's global network.
Duties will include: - Design and development of custom tools to aid and automate the operations process, hardware procurement, installation and maintenance at our client's European and New York data centers.
- Office operations including various intranet services, VOIP and VPN systems
- Overseeing operational projects to completion
Education, Experience & Skills Requirements Required background - Strong technical aptitude in the Linux Systems admin domain, including various Linux deployment (RedHat, Debian 4 and above, etc.)
- Strong understanding of IP network systems, design, diagnostics and scalability
- Exceptional abilities in network security (Linux, VPN, SSL, IPsec, Firewalls, IDS, etc.)
- Exceptional technical and process problem solving skills
- Candidates must have strong personal attributes in the areas of attitude, motivation, persistence, creativity and curiosity.
Preferred skills: - Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred. However, this requirement will be waived for exceptional candidates.
- Various programming / scripting languages in order to build tools to aid system management
- Hardware maintenance skills, specifically Intel based Linux servers
- Experience with Linux VPN and VOIP systems, preferably Asterisk.
- Network and Systems Performance monitoring systems, e.g. Nagios, SMARTS, CiscoWorks, etc.
- Solid background in the automation of technical and non-technical tasks and notifications in order to reduce human intervention, errors and effort.
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