[nylug-talk] [nylug-job] Pyramid IT Consulting seeks Sr. Linux Admin, Contract or Direct Hire

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# JobID: #626
# Submitted On: 2007-4-20 14:12:6

# Company: Pyramid IT Consulting
# Contact: Amit Kumar,
# Email:  amit.kumar at pyramidconsultinginc.com
# Url: http://www.pyramidci.com
# Phone: 212-381-1120 xt

# Title: Sr. Linux Admin, Contract or Direct Hire

# Salary: $100,000+

# Description: The Linux System Administrator supports the Linux
  software systems platforms. The primary objective of this position is
  to assure reliable and predictable performance of all mission critical
  systems in support of corporate banking and finance operations. The
  corporate computing resources include high reliability, networked,
  database servers in a distributed Linux environment utilizing storage
  available through locally attached and network available disk storage.

  Typical Duties:
  * Design, configure and tune high availability systems
  * Identify and resolve capacity, contention, and resource deficiencies
    to support corporate processing requirements
  * Provide second/third level Linux software support to the Linux
    developer groups during normal working hours.
  * Investigate and determine the requirements for all new and
    replacement Linux and Unix machines
  * Maintain the patch levels of all OS and application patches on all
    systems.
  * Document and maintain the accuracy of existing documentation for the
    backoffice, QA, UAT, and production systems.
  * Provide advice and guidance to the development community early in
    the development cycle to design supportability into new and/or
    revised applications
  * Work with Project Management to define the necessary Systems tasks
    associated with brining new clients onto our systems.
  * Roll out new applications and upgrades developed by the internal
    development organizations.
  * Support third party applications products used in support of
    corporate mission critical systems.

# Required Skills: For this environment, the successful applicant will
  have solid scripting experience. In some ways, this position resembles
  that of an automation engineer more than that of a typical system
  administrator.

  The environment relies on shell scripting, perl, Ruby, and Python. The
  candidate must be familiar with regular expressions, calling common
  Linux/Unix utilities, and using libraries of functionality. From a
  source and version control perspective, the candidate should have
  experience in either command line cvs or subversion.

  The environment relies heavily on open sourced projects and tools such
  as Linux (PPC and x86), Apache, Jakarta/Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios, and
  others. Experience with Java and reading Log4J logs is a definite
  plus. This person should also be familiar with SQL and SQL performance
  to be able to provide feedback to the Development and DBA groups. We
  are a DB2 shop.

  Required networking skills include a solid grasp of IP networking from
  the physical layer through the network layer as well as the main
  concepts associated with ICMP, TCP, and UDP and some of the standard
  protocols that are built upon those fundamentals. The successful
  applicant will have a solid understanding of Linux networking
  including iptables firewalling, routing, and kernel parameter setting
  and tuning.

  Working experience with Cisco networking equipment (routers, switches,
  and firewalls) is assumed. Experience with provisioning and supporting
  WAN circuits is necessary. Experience with establishing, debugging,
  documenting and supporting IPSEC VPNs is required.

  The technical environment is composed of approximately 350 PPC and x86
  blade servers at two datacenters, two back office environments in New
  York and Atlanta, and secondary support for two European datacenters.
  We also support some Windows Terminal Servers, their associated
  utilities and applications, and users that connect to the terminal
  servers via remote desktop clients.

  The Production and UAT environments are 24X7X365 and good
  communications skills and documentation skills are vital for this job.
  We like detailed documentation.

# Location: Atlanta, GA 30340