Requirements

 

You are the ideal candidate for this job if you have:

• 10+ years of total work experience




• 3+ years of experience in supporting AWS-based production infrastructure




• 3+ years of experience administering UNIX/Linux server required (or equivalent work experience)




• 3+ years of experience with Apache, Tomcat and any other Java application servers and relational database servers like MySQL (LAMP experience is highly preferred)




• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, tripwire, aide and other custom monitoring tools




• Experience with configuring and securing mission-critical production servers




• Experience with configuring load balancers and data




• Experience in Shell Scripting or Perl, with experience implementing automation and monitoring using shell scripting




• Experience in analysis and system performance tuning




• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)




• Critical thinking skills in a complex IT environment to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve problems without direction




• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines




• Excellent verbal and written communication skills




• Willingness to work hard (50 hrs per week)

• Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for the infrastructure and be the on-call for production servers




• Develop security monitoring and other tools to ensure the integrity and availability of our applications, server resources, reviewing system and application logs




• Work with the incident team to diagnose and recover from hardware or software failures working with or as the Incident Commander to coordinate and communicate with our internal customers




• Assist project teams with technical issues during development efforts




• Gather system requirements and support several project teams in evolving, testing, and rolling-out new products and services, then transitioning the site or product to post launch operations activities throughout the life of the product or service




• Work with the application development team and other systems engineers to make improvements to current infrastructure




• Document processes and procedures and follow a formal change management procedure