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Job Description
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CIDC is seeking a hands-on customer focused Linux/Unix and networking professional with systems management, monitoring and software release experience to manage mission-critical 24x7 systems for us and our worldwide customers.
For this role, we're seeking an individual with expertise in 24x7 server farm operations, enterprise Linux/Unix and Apache, networking and configuration management. Strong troubleshooting skills (network and server level) are a critical requirement for this role. While we're looking for an individual that can handle emergencies, the ideal candidate will have a strong dedication to process, standardization, documentation, and minimizing the risk of emergency situations. Such an individual should view producing good documentation and maintaining tight configuration management as mission critical activities.
If you're a SysAdmin with 5+ years of solid hands-on experience, looking for an exciting new challenge with a dynamic fast growing company – and you meet our requirements listed below – CIDC could be the right place for you!
Responsibilities
• Manage our high-volume multi-player gaming and global ecommerce infrastructure across multiple datacenters.
• Assist the development and QA teams with releasing software through staging to production systems, minimizing or eliminating downtime. Build and deploy new release tools.
• Install and configure servers, storage, load balancers, firewalls and networking equipment.
• Participate in 24x7 system support rotation and escalate issues to senior team members and vendors.
• Install, configure and manage massively scalable clustered Linux and Apache systems running mission critical applications and services.
• Document existing and new infrastructure deployments using runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Use a workflow/ticket system to handle daily operations and change management.
• Handle large projects related to security, audit and compliance including new infrastructure rollouts.
• Work closely with the DBA group and stakeholders to meet their requirements.
Requirements
• 5-7 years of systems and network administration experience managing a high-volume, highly-available Linux- or Unix-based OLTP environment. Your experience must include managing server farms with tens of balanced clustered web nodes, large scale OLTP database servers, and handling 50-100+Mbps traffic.
• Experience deploying OS and applications on HP or IBM blade hardware.
• Hands-on knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux or UNIX, Apache, IP security, DNS, MTAs, storage.
• Ability to troubleshoot across all layers of the OSI stack.
• Experience rolling out software releases for highly available OLTP environments.
• Excellent team player with good communication, organizational and documentation skills. Ability to create clear, concise reports. Ability to create and maintain complex network diagrams.
• Experience managing large capacity storage devices from EMC or other vendors.
• Experience administering backup and restore operations, including off-site.
• 24x7 on-call availability (in rotation).
• Knowledge of Perl is valuable, but not an absolute requirement.
• 4-year technical degree.
Pluses:
• Experience working for an Enterprise Web Hosting Service provider.
This position requires does require occasionally lifting up to 40 (forty) pounds, this is an open environment and would require the employee to be working on a computer for an average work day. CIDC is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workforce.
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