Title: Senior Linux/UNIX Administrator.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA.

Duration: 12+ Months Contract.

Interview Process: Telephonic + Face - face

Note: Back Ground Check will be done for the last 7 years.

Job Description:

System Admin - LINUX and UNIX with STRONG Networking and Systems Engineering Skills

• ·         In this critical role, you'll utilize your rare combination of UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all operational processes.
• ·         The ideal candidate is a technical generalist with skills ranging from production systems/network management.
• ·         This position requires experience in systems administration, with development experience and performance tuning being a plus.

Responsibilities:

• ·         Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of systems
• ·         Work independently on assigned projects, being willing and able to ask for help when needed and escalate problems as they arise.
• ·         Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment
• ·         Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design
• ·         Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and generally improve the operability and maintainability of our systems
• ·         Identify and triage outages, monitor and remediate systems and network performance
• ·         Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
• ·         Function as a key member of a cross-functional team to address new product deployment, system performance, capacity planning and SLA compliance.
• ·         Available to Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• ·         BS in Computer Science, BSEE or similar experience
• ·         2+ years experience doing project oriented systems administration
• ·         Extensive system administration background
• ·         Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
• ·         Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Apache, performance tuning concepts, and web applications
• ·         Experience using scripting languages to perform complex automation in a large-scale environment
• ·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• ·         Experience working with development teams

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• ·         5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
• ·         5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP background a plus)
• ·         Experience with network designs, protocols, and troubleshooting.
• ·         Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java
• ·         Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
• ·         Experience with high volume websites and deploying services to international audiences

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