<p><strong>Senior Systems Engineering Administrator</strong></p> <div> <h2><span><strong>Description</strong></span></h2> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">The Systems Engineer is primarily responsible for managing all aspects of configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting the production servers and handling requests and problem escalations from Service Desk and other departments. The engineer determines the severity of issues (triage), prioritizes issues, performs diagnosis of system and software components to identify root cause, and takes action or recommends corrective action for resolution.</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">The engineer will work with other networks, database, software & quality engineering teams and technical product managers and vendors to clearly state problems, troubleshoot, diagnose and/or resolve complex technical issues.</span></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);"><strong><span>ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES</span></strong></span></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Support Unix Operations team in a 24x7 global team setup, comprised of employees and consultants, that provide administration, advanced support and operational management of Unix/Linux systems across internal private and AWS platforms</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Install and configure Linux OS on physical and virtual systems</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Help in identifying, troubleshooting and resolve technical issues related to the </span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Unix/Linux systems</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Interfaces with hardware vendors to maintain and schedule repair of systems in a timely manner</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Identify and improve Unix operation processes & procedures by automation</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Ensure system availability and performance by proactively monitoring the usage and enabling effective alerts/probes</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Ensure change management processes, incident and problem management processes are followed</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Automate recurring manual tasks in order to make the whole team more efficient.</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Implement effective problem management processes to identify and proactively </span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">remediate incident trends</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Apply patches and upgrades on Unix/Linux systems as needed</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Participate in the internal Operational projects in migrating systems from physical data center to virtual data center</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Perform capacity analysis of the Unix/Linux computing resources and notify the team for timely action</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Provide senior level technical support for Unix related project activities</span></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);"><strong>CHALLENGES</strong></span></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Participate in 24x7 on-call support</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Working with counterparts in other global teams</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● Lead small groups of systems administrators</span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">● 24x7 Availability in case of emergencies</span></span></span></div> </div> <div> </div> </div> <div> <h2><strong><span><span>QUALIFICATIONS</span></span></strong></h2> <ul> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">6+ Years of Linux/Unix Administration Experience.</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Strong proficiency with mainstream Linux distributions & AIX administration</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Extensive experience using Bash to automate repeatable work</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Experience of working directly with another programming language in addition to Bash such as Python, Ruby, Go & Clojure</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Hands on experience in managing DNS (BIND), LDAP, NTP and SMTP (Exim, postfix or sendmail)</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Using software lifecycle management to orchestrate patching of operating systems on a large scale such as RHN</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Automation experience using configuration management systems to both deploy and maintain services such as Chef, Puppet & Ansible</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Experience in a Hosted Services environment or working directly with hosting providers would be added advantage.</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">2+ Years of administration experience of Apache HTTP web server, Tomcat, Oracle/BEA Web Logic, NginX, Memcached, varnish & rabbitmq.</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">2+ Years of experience on working with multiple cloud providers such as AWS, vCloud Director, OpenStack & Azure.</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Experience on Linux server hardening mechanisms.</span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Experience on health/performance monitoring with using tools like App Dynamics, New Relic etc....</span></span></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 87);">Please click the link to apply - </span></span>https://pearson.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1607181</span></strong></p> </div>