Position: Sr. Systems Admin - IT Infrastructure - Unix Systems Administration
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Duration: 3 Months +
Cloud Services - Linux Systems Administrator
Job Description:
As a Linux Systems Administrator, you will be building, evolving, and operating the systems used to power our cloud services. You will ensure that our environments are operating and performing optimally and efficiently; from development all the way to production. This is a hands-on operational role.
Success in this role requires very strong Linux system administration skills, an aptitude for distributed systems and attention to minute details. You need to have strong network, systems and troubleshooting abilities. You are expected to analyze complex system behaviors or performance problems, and be able to trace issues across multiple systems. You are a first responder and are ultimately responsible for ensuring our cloud infrastructure services are up and running.
Responsibilities:
Operate and deploy cloud services and related projects from development to production
Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis activities
Mentor team members on areas of subject-matter expertise
Requirements:
BA/BS in Computer Science preferred, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in a highly-complex technical operations environment
At least 3 years of experience with Linux/UNIX administration, including Patch Management
At least 2 years of experience with VMWare administration
Hands on operational experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment
Solid scripting skills
Familiarity with vBlock architecture (blade servers, VNX, UCS, etc)
Familiarity with IP networking (iptables, haproxy, vpn, tcp/ip, http)
Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience, especially in a virtual (VMWare) environment
Experience managing storage, both SAN and NAS (VNX, Isilon, Data Domain)
Experience with production support, change control protocols
Strong multitasking abilities and problem solving skills
Experience managing highly available environments and configurations
Highly self-motivated and directed
Keen attention to detail
Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Ability to handle periodic on-call duty
Helpful Skills:
Experience with BOSH and Cloud Foundry
Experience with vCloud Air/vCloud Director
Experience with Windows AD, ADFS, and certificates
Familiarity with Swift
Familiarity with SMTP and Postfix
Familiarity with with Cassandra and xDB
Experience with Pivotal Hadoop is a plus
Scripting skills (Salt, Ruby, Perl, C, Python)
Trend Micro Deep Security knowledge
Zabbix knowledge
Data Domain knowledge
Avamar knowledge
SQL reporting skills
Windows Administration experience