If you are Highly organized and detail oriented, passionate about availability and performance, you HATE when things run inefficiently, you feel an unnatural urge to automate as much as possible, you'd rather write a script than use Excel to write a report, you LOVE to learn the new stuff, but have a strange attachment to the old, you are blissfully/painfully torn between being a SysAdmin and a full-time programmer Responsibilities
* Manage and maintain the availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of our product by engineering reliability into software and systems.
* Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and automation to prevent problem recurrence.
* Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.
* Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning and demand forecasting.
Requirements:
* Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows and Linux based environments.
* Programming and scripting skills (C#, Java, Powershell, python, bash, etc).
* Must have strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills with ability to work in a team environment.
* Strong background in operating system internals (Windows & Linux).
* Strong knowledge of system architecture, including processors, storage (NetApp & EMC), networking (Cisco, HP) and virtualization (VMWare/Hyper-V).
* Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Bachelor Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent (Advantage).