Location: ATL, Georgia
Position Description:
Duties: Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
- Hostmaster responsibilities for DNS servers and DHCP supporting internal DNS.
- Hostmaster responsibilities for BIND DNS servers hosting over 5000 domains in external DNS.
- Postmaster responsibilities for SMTP gateways supporting inbound and outbound mail infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot FTP, SMB, DNS, DHCP, SMTP issues occurring in daily operations.
- Provide technical and end user related support for any issues relating to the systems supported by UNIX Operations.
- Build and maintain hardware/software configurations for enterprise UNIX/LINUX systems.
- Develop standards and processes for the implementation and maintenance of software packages running on multi-user servers. Software packages include, but are not limited to: multiple UNIX OS versions, clustering, disk and file management systems, backup applications, Oracle, Apache, Perl, SSH.
- Develop standards and processes for change and configuration management.
- Support, modify, and/or improve internally developed and 3rd party production, development, QA and UAT hardware and applications.
- Monitor and optimize storage capacity, data availability, capacity usage, performance and data reporting.
- Isolate issues and correct and improve operational efficiency through changes to the software, reconfiguration of the hardware, or implementation of new processes or solutions.
- Develop tools to automate administrative tasks and offer efficient and scalable solutions to meet the demands of administering large number of servers in an enterprise environment.
- Write proposals or papers, making presentations to internal customers and peers, and working closely with upper management.
- Lead large-scale technical projects, working with company staff and vendors to gather requirements, determine solutions, and then implement those solutions.
- Document system configurations, operating procedures, etc
- Participate in a 24X7 on-call rotation with peers.
- Lead projects aligned with major departmental initiatives or the team's core services.
- Fulfill advisory and contributory role for projects led by junior team members.
- Ensure that team projects are designed and architected to produce solutions which are scalable, maintainable, adhere to industry best practices, and contribute to improved operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Effect process improvement via the application of knowledge in the subject matter and the creation of custom tools.
Qualifications
Minimum of eight or more years experience in systems administration and engineering that include the building, configuring and support of mission critical, production systems in a large, enterprise environment.
- Minimum of six or more years experience supporting Red Hat Linux operating system platform in business-critical environment. Red Hat Certified Engineer certification highly desired.
- Experience supporting DNS, DHCP, SMTP installations with large user base.
- Experience with SAN technologies.
- Knowledge and understanding of relational databases such as mysql and Oracle.
- Knowledge and understanding of industry best practices for system administration in large scale, mission-critical environments.
- Ability to interpret server operational and performance characteristics.
- Ability to write shell scripts or applications to create custom solutions that streamline and automate business processes.
- Ability to use the resources at their disposal to gather information, formulate solutions, circulate ideas to solicit peer input, determine the right solution and implement a timely solution.
- Possess critical thinking and effective troubleshooting skills with ability to quickly and accurately determine source of a problem, identify possible solutions, select the most appropriate solution, and implement the solution in a timely manner.
- Strong dedication, work ethics, sense of teamwork, and professional attitude.
- Consistent track record of taking technology implementations from vision to execution.
- Proven history of constantly striving for improved methodology, efficiency, and work processes.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers in best practices of operations.
- Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience.
- Solid knowledge of DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SMB, FTP protocols.
- BIND, Sendmail, shell/Perl scripting, PHP, MySQL, VSFTP, Samba
Thanks,
Ron.
732-510-3207
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ron-talasila/6/957/6a5
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