[Jobposts] Sr. Systems Administrator: Fluency in Nagios

[Brian Barrera]

Sr. Systems Administrator: Fluency in monitoring and management approaches
using toolsets such as

Nagios

 

Join our growing, thriving business. This role would be part of the Core

Operations team within the Technology Operations (TechOps) organization
which

supports and scales the company infrastructure and services. TechOps
provides

24x7x365 service support and is responsible for availability, security, and

performance of all company services. The Sr. Systems Administrator will need
to

provide stellar system administration skills in Linux/Unix/open source
(LAMP)

environments with significant proficiency in how to design, monitor, manage,

and scale large scale infrastructures for online service businesses.

 

The Sr. Systems Administrator will engage with other TechOps personnel to

collaborate on infrastructure design and be responsible for fault tolerance,

high availability, and helping to maintain a high quality of service for

operations.

 

The Sr. Systems Administrator will leverage industry best practices in
design

and systems architecture to help manage our growing network of servers and

optimize performance of our services, while continuously contributing to

monitoring and management.

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

.       Own the design and build out of server infrastructures both virtual
and

physical, along with fluency in load balancer configurations, MySQL
databases,

and network administration as related to ensuring service availability,

capacity management, performance, and security

.       Be fluent in automated system provisioning, data centers, and
writing

automation scripts/tools to manage a massive infrastructure with a small,

effective staff of talented system engineers

.       Participate in on-call rotations for service support with a sense of

urgency in maintaining service operations for high volume online web
properties

.       Clearly communicate and produce documentation for various technology

architectures

.       Use critical thinking, keen judgment, and leverage best practices

wherever possible

.       Be a champion of change management preferably with an ITIL/CMDB

approach to asset and configuration management

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

.       5+ years of experience supporting high growth Linux/Unix server

environments (500+ nodes), preferably most of which has been for online
service

businesses

.       Fluency in monitoring and management approaches using toolsets such
as

Nagios, syslog-ng, cfengine, puppet, and rrd-based tools such as MRTG,
cacti,

munin, ganglia, etc.

.       Strong knowledge of building and optimizing LAMP and open source

application stacks (Apache, nginx, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, chef, unicorn, hadoop,

memcached, reddis, etc.), with significant expertise in Linux distros of
RHEL

derivatives such as CentOS

.       Experience with both physical and virtual automated system
provisioning

(PXE boot, DHCP)

.       Expertise in DNS, LDAP, various storage strategies, and network or

distributed file systems

.       Expertise with open source asset management systems such as OCS

Inventory and GLPI is a plus

.       Knowledge of MySQL DB administration including backups and
replication

topologies

.       Knowledge of networking in both physical data center and virtual

hosting (cloud computing) environments, including VLANs and how/why used,

difference between L2 and L3 protocols, fault tolerance in Internet

connectivity, and management of various load balancing solutions (F5,
Citrix,

Cisco, Foundry)

.       Affinity for and ability to succeed in fast paced, high growth

startup-like environments

.       Strong communication skills with proficiency in producing design

diagrams and operational procedures

.       Excellent multi-tasking and prioritization skills

Special requirements: 

Fluency in monitoring and management approaches using toolsets such as
Nagios

 

 

Brian Barrera

Fusio

Director Talent Acquisition

www.Fusioinc.com

 

brian at Fusioinc.com

972-345-2336