Job Description
| The Senior System Administrator position is responsible for effective provisioning installationconfiguration operation and maintenance of systemsrsquo hardware and software and related infrastructure This individual participates in technical research and development towards platform stability and progress This individual ensures that system hardware operating systems software systems and related procedures adhere to organizational standards enabling coworkers and clients This individual is accountable for the following systems virtualized Linux and software systems that support infrastructure Responsibilities on these systems include provisioning operations and support and maintenance to ensure continual innovation Provisioning Engineering of System Administrationrelated solutions for various project and operational needs Install new rebuild existing servers and configure hardware peripherals services settings directories storage etc in accordance with standards and projectoperational requirements Contribute to document and maintain system standards Research and recommend innovative and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale Operations and Support Perform daily system monitoring verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware server resources systems and key processes reviewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups Perform security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary Create change and delete user accounts per request Provide Tier Ilother support per request from various constituencies Investigate and troubleshoot issues Repair and recover from hardware or software failures Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies Maintenance Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities and environments Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure or applications per project or operational needs Maintain operational documentation on configuration or procedures Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning Perform ongoing performance tuning hardware upgrades and resource optimization as required Configure CPU memory and disk partitions as required The best candidate will excel in the following areas (our current solution is in parenthesis) Linux (any distro but we run mostly Ubuntu and also CentOS Oracle Linux) Virtualization (Xen) Webserver application and Java Application stacks (ApacheTomcat) Scripting with powerful grepping skills Additional familiarity with the following will be a definite plus Storage Administration (Nexenta) Configuration management (puppet) Version Control Systems (svn git) Monitoring and Log Analysis (Zenoss Splunk Cacti) Distributed Computing Infrastructure as a Service (SoftLayer) CDN (Akamai) Load Balancing and Global Traffic Management (haproxy BiglP) Firewalls (iptableslCheckpoint) Message Bus Technology (ActiveMQ) SMTP (Postfix Sendmail) Database technologies SQL and NoSQL (Oracle 11g RAC MySQL MongoDB) Networking (Cisco) Knowledge of operation andor administration of Atlassian tool suite Content Management System (CoreMedia) ComplexityPROBLEM SOLVING Position deals with a variety of problems and sometime has to decide which (possibly nonperfect) answer is best Decisions normally have a noticeable effect departmentwide and possibly companywide and judgment errors can require emergency backtracking RESPONSIBILITYOVERSlGHT FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY Functions as a worker doing the work similar to those in the work unit responsibility for conceptualizing and implementing paradigmchanging solutions crosstrainingdocumentation and setting the work pace No budget responsibility COMMUNICATIONSINTERPERSONAL CONTACTS Must be a strong team player both willing to projectlead team members as well as facilitate the success of other teams efforts Interpret andor discuss information with others inside and out our department which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues Resolve problems within established practices WORKING CONDlTlONSPHYSlCAL EFFORT Responsibilities sometimes require working evenings and weekends sometimes with little advanced notice Comfortable working in a fastpaced rapidlyadaptive work environment Requires participation in a scheduled oncall rotation No regular travel required Casual clothing culture the norm in almost all situations Infrequentlyneeded ability to lift 50 pounds to shoulder height Visit wwwdohertyhrdirectcom httpwwwdohertyhrdirectcom Select Applicant Login Use this criteria to apply username ibs password applicant job authorization code CoreServices Internet Broadcasting provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability marital familial status ancestry or public assistance in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws |
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