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Key responsibilities include:- | 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 | Desired Skills & Experience | ||
Essential | 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 | 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. | |||
Latest revision as of 04:34, 26 April 2012
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.
