Senior SysAdmin
The opportunity
Are you a sweet mix of skills and passion? Solving real-world problems with a wide range of technologies and applications gets you excited? Join us as our Senior SysAdmin and become our networks wizard. If you have strong self-motivation, good communication skills and proven experience you’ll fit right in. We’re looking for a balance between technical competencies and people skills. You’ll be adding new tools and techniques to your repertoire to improve day-to-day operations as well as the performance, availability and reliability of our systems.
Your mission
- Performance tuning and monitoring
- Resource utilization and uptime monitoring
- Automation
- Day to day maintenance
- Network security
Your Background
- 3 years minimum Unix or Linux systems administration experience in a high traffic production internet site
- 2 years minimum experience with Apache or Nginx web servers, MySQL and database clusters, VMware
- Scripting experience in Bash, PHP or Perl
- Good understanding and proficiency with iptables firewalls
- Solid networking knowledge
- Good understanding or experience with performance tuning, automation and configuration management
- Ability to quickly troubleshoot and identify performance bottlenecks and complex problems, possibly involving OS internals
WOULD BE A PLUS:
- Linux routing, including but not limited to policy routing,
- Load Balancers
- MySQL Clustering
- PHP configuration
- CentOS / Ubuntu / Debian Linux distributions
- Configuration management
- Source control management, such as Git or Subversion
- cPanel/WHM
- High availability setups
Benefits
- A well-deserved salary
- “Employee of the month” performance bonus
- Holiday bonuses twice a year to keep you happy
- Referral bonus for getting your friends to work with us
- “As long as the job gets done” type of flexible hours
- Career improvement training and workshops to assist you in your development plan
- Medical coverage to keep you healthy
- Bookster Subscription
OTHER PERKS:
- “Winter Warm-Up” & “Summer Bash” – the best company parties you’ve ever seen
- “Birthday Bash at the Wheel of Fortune” (it’s weird but you want it, trust us)
- We hold a cool event every month
- “Emia Fun” will bring teams together & build memories to remember, where colleagues become friends
- Fresh fruits every day for that vitamin burst
- The onsite snack dispenser is here for those moments when all you need is chocolate
- Relaxation area for everyone to enjoy
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