Senior Linux Administrator

Key responsibilities include:-

• Developing monitoring and automation solutions for large data centers, primarily Linux based for cloud based solution including virtual devices.
• Participating in traditional Waterfall and Agile projects in a team environment to deliver monitoring solutions for data centers.
• Investigating new technologies and standards, making recommendations to the team, documenting best practices and tutoring other members of the team.
• Development of innovative solutions that enable us to scale the Clown platform. This will take the form of processes, automation of manual tasks and self-healing.
• Participating in the evaluation of third party tools or applications introduced into the production environment.
• Working with software developers and quality assurance experts to provide technical leadership on systems development projects.

Desired Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience in a senior Unix/Linux SysAdmin or DevOps role, operating and maintaining large-scale, distributed Unix/Linux systems (1000+ machines).
• Experience in participating in software development projects targeted toward systems administration and data center monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring, remotely upgrading and automating the control of cloud/data center devices.
• Solid understanding of the needs of Network Operations Centers.
• Ability to diagnose network or datacenter issues.
• Experience with OSS technologies such as software deployment, rpm packages, yum, chef, puppet,
• Proven experience in a technical role.
• Excellent Unix scripting skills primarily Perl and Bourne shell.
• Excellent TCP/IP networking skills with technical knowledge of firewalls, routers and load balancers. Knowledge of common protocols and technologies (e.g. Ethernet, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, MQ, Active Directory, Kerberos).

Desirable

• Familiarity with monitoring systems such as Zenoss, Nagios etc.
• Experience working on Agile projects in a matrix organization.
• Good working technical knowledge of open source web, mail and database servers (apache, qmail, exim, postgreSQL, mysql).
• Experience with many operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Cisco IOS, Data OnTap).
• Familiarity with Agile development practices
• ITIL v3 Foundation or Practitioner certification
• Experience articulating complex ideas in written/diagrammatic form
• Enthusiastic and able to rally a team around a technical vision.
• Familiarity with Direct-attached, SAN and NAS storage.