Senior Linux Systems Administrator

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Type: Full Time
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Job Title: Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Department: Operations

Job Description
Mywaves is revolutionizing the world of user generated content and mobile entertainment by mobilizing all video on the web. We are adding an insane number of users from around the world everyday, and there is already a huge amount of content channels in our system…streaming out to mobile phones everywhere.

We are looking to add a Senior Linux System Administrator to our current Operations/Infrastructure team. We have a plethora of Linux servers in a high volume, distributed site and are looking to move to the next generation of infrastructure. If you have 8+ years hands-on experience in Linux/Network administration and love Linux, Networking, scalability, load balancing, and infrastructure challenges you are going to love this job!

Qualities and Qualifications

* 8+ years Linux administration experience (not Solaris or HPUX…Linux).
* Experience installing and configuring: Apache, iptables, sendmail, SSH, VPN, etc.
* Excellent Shell Scripting and Perl, Ruby would bring big smiles also!
* Network experience with hardware/software load balancers, firewalls, switches, network security, and network topology.
* Mass data storage experience such as SAN/NAS and shared file-systems. Preferably in a high-volume content driven environment.
* Experienced in capacity planning and tuning, investigating network issues, and proposing and deploying new systems to remove bottlenecks.
* Experience with monitoring software such as Nagios, Ganglia, Sitescope, etc.
* Experience with automation! You must be able to rollout a system AND maintain a system w/o any manual intervention! CFEngine is a huge plus.
* Experienced with TCP/IP network analysis and troubleshooting as it applies to Linux environments.
* Experienced working with Open Source software.
* Ability to work in a 24/7 environment, IE: after hour and weekend oncall rotation.



The following are definitely pluses.

* Familiarity with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server). DBA experience a major plus.
* CFEngine
* Linux kernel hacking
* In depth knowledge of Apache
* LDAP and other security.
* Video streaming
* Mobile technology


Responsibilities

* Network planning and scaling.
* Give hardware, software, and network recommendations to senior staff with the ability to implement those decisions.
* Deployment planning, installing, setup and configuration of hardware/software recommendation with the ability to setup proper monitoring of those systems.
* Documenting redundancy, disaster recovery, support, and other information necessary for infrastructure you create and install.
* 24/7 support with other Operations team members for all production systems.

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