Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Systems Administrator Jersey City, NJ


 
Job ID: Job-0905
Job Title: Systems Administrator
location: Jersey City, NJ
Jobtype: Permanent
Rate: $90K - $95K +bonus
Description: highly experienced in systems administration for online services, who has a strong background in managing all aspects of an Apache web server/hosting environment and is interested in using the devops philosophy. 

Job Functions: 

Perform system administration for web and application servers 

Work with development groups on assigned projects as a devops administrator 

Perform in-depth maintenance and tuning. 

Participate in an off-hours on-call rotation 

Take an assigned standard day shift 

Requirements 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

Installation and troubleshooting of software packages and OS 

Development as needed in Perl, Bash/Shell scripting. 

Strong experience with Apache, MySQL, Postfix. 

Strong experience with Web application management and troubleshooting 

Strong experience in a DevOps environment 

Strong experience in problem troubleshooting and systems monitoring operations dealing with networks and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Vlans and DNS; 

Strong background on use of code troubleshooting tools such as strace and gdb and network troubleshooting with tools such as tcpdump 

Strong experience in configuration management such as Puppet or CF Engine 

Strong experience with version control systems such as Subversion, Git, Mercurial 

Strong detailed experience with systems and network monitoring software configurations 

Excellent oral and written communication skills. 

Strong self-starter. 

Desired Skills/Experience: 

Ruby and/or Python knowledge a major plus 

Experience with DevOps technologies such as Puppet, CFEngine, Chef 

SELinux 

High availability configurations such as hardware load balancers, Heartbeat, etc. 

Juniper NetScreens, iptables, ipfw, ipf, pf 

Minimum Job Requirements: 

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university highly preferred. 4 years of commensurate experience considered, and 2 years of professional work experience 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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