Cambridge Interactive Development Corporation is seeking a highly-technical hands-on, customer focused Linux/Unix and networking professional with strong systems management, monitoring and software release experience. This is a senior level position to manage mission-critical 24×7 systems for us and our worldwide customers.
For this senior role, we’re seeking an individual with deep expertise in 24×7 server farm operations, enterprise Linux/Unix and Apache, networking and configuration management. Strong troubleshooting skills(network and server level) are a critical requirement for this role. While we’re looking for an individual that can handle emergencies, the ideal candidate will have a strong dedication to process, standardization, documentation, and minimizing the risk of emergency situations. Such an individual should view producing good documentation and maintaining tight configuration management as mission critical activities.
If you’re a SysAdmin with 7+ years of solid hands-on experience, looking for an exciting new challenge with a dynamic fast growing company – and you meet our requirements listed below – CIDC could be the right place for you!
Responsibilities
• Scale up and manage our high-volume multi-player gaming and global ecommerce infrastructure across multiple datacenters.
• Assist the Development and QA teams with releasing software through staging to production systems, minimizing or eliminating downtime. Build and deploy new release tools.
• Design, deploy and manage a new monitoring and alerting environment for our systems worldwide.
• Research, specify, configure and deploy servers, storage, load balancers, firewalls and networking equipment.
• Implement processes to standardize IT practices and procedures, capacity planning and risk mitigation.
• Mentoring junior systems administrators and transferring knowledge via technical discussions and training.
• Participate in 24×7 system support rotation and handle escalations from junior systems administrators.
• Install, configure and manage massively scalable clustered Linux and Apache systems running mission critical applications and services.
• Performance tuning of web, application, DB servers, network and storage devices.
• Document existing and new infrastructure deployments using runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Use a workflow/ticket system to handle daily operations and change management.
• Escalate issues to hardware and software vendors technical support staff for quick resolution.
• Handle large projects related to security, audit and compliance including new infrastructure rollouts.
• Work closely with the DBA group and stakeholders to meet their requirements.
Requirements
• 7-10+ years of systems and network administration experience managing a high-volume, highly-available Linux- or Unix-based OLTP environment. Your experience must include managing server farms with tens of balanced clustered web nodes, large scale OLTP database servers, and handling 50-100+Mbps traffic.
• Experience deploying OS and applications on HP or IBM blade hardware.
• In-depth, hands-on knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux or UNIX, Apache, IP security, DNS, MTAs, storage.
• Ability to troubleshoot across all layers of the OSI stack.
• Experience implementing and running an SNMP-based system for worldwide server and network element monitoring and alerting.
• Experience rolling out software releases for highly available OLTP environments.
• Excellent team player with good communication, organizational and documentation skills. Ability to create clear, concise reports. Ability to create and maintain complex network diagrams.
• Experience managing large capacity storage devices from EMC or other vendors.
• Experience administering backup and restore operations, including off-site.
• 24×7 on-call availability (in rotation).
• Knowledge of Perl is valuable, but not an absolute requirement.
• 4-year technical degree.
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Interested? send resume to dcohen@cidc.com