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* Participating in traditional Waterfall and Agile projects in a team environment to deliver monitoring solutions for data centers. | * 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. | * 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 | * 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. | * 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. | * Working with software developers and quality assurance experts to provide technical leadership on systems development projects. | ||
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.
