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IS Support Specialist- Systems Operations
Scope Of the Position: This position entails assisting and maintaining, updating and distributing information to our global data centers in a dynamic Helpdesk environment. The ideal candidates will analyze systems and processes looking for improvements and work within the teams and policies to implement change. The ability to work during and outside of core business hours required.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide same day support for customers and 180+ data centers worldwide - Perform triage and root cause analysis of issues affecting our systems - Liaison between branch operations, product owners and development - Format and load data spreadsheets - Maintain and distribute system helpfiles - Distribute updates to our branches worldwide - Identify and log new bugs - Process Improvement - Document new and existing procedures in document libraries - Contribute to the development of the team through cross-training - Create and update client/branch reports
Desired Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to work outside of Core Business hours as needed (available for 24/7 support) - Aptitude to be continualy learning new new skills - Ability to prioritizing multiple tasks while meeting deadlines - Proven track record of superior customer service skills - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Work well on a team or independently - Possess a strong sense of urgency - Take the initiative, follow up and pursue issues to resolution - Ability to research and resolve system/process issues - Technical aptitude - Knowledge of MS Excel, Access & Sharepoint - Knowledge of basic Unix/Linux commands - Knowledge of Programming Languages - Knowledge of basic SQL and database structure - IT Helpdesk or Tier 2 Technical Support
Experience:
This position requires previous experience with both data entry, information validation and system maintenance. Additionally, some experience within the global logistics industry or as a systems analyst will be beneficial. The ideal candidate would enjoy problem solving and root cause analysis.
Career Level Entry Level (2+ yrs Exp.)
Position Type Full Time
Salary DOE
Opening Date 01/25/2012
Closing Date 04/25/2012
Action Requested Please Apply online at:
- NOTE please put GSLUG on the reference line during the online application process ##
Sr. Systems Engineer & Sr. DevOps Systems Engineer
Sr. Systems Engineer (Linux)
BitPusher is a small, rapidly growing web infrastructure company with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. We are seeking a creative, dynamic and highly responsible senior systems administrator/engineer to be based in the Seattle office.
BitPusher manages web servers, networks and other IT infrastructure, both owned by BitPusher and hosted elsewhere. We build long-term relationships with our customers and take the time to understand their applications, their technical needs and their business needs. We customize things as required to meet those needs, but we also keep things as standard as we can for reasons that we're sure you already understand.
What you'll do at BitPusher:
- Work with customers on designing, building, and migration of production services as well as ongoing management and support
- Be a hands-on engineer for BitPusher's infrastructure, including networking, imaging and provisioning environment, and administrative/operations automation tools
- Play an active role in coming up with better ways to administer large numbers of systems supporting diverse applications, by improving both technical practices and processes
- Help take our application hosting techniques to the next level, both through incremental improvements and new platform design
- 'Own' the customer relationship ensuring Bitpusher is a valued partner to our customers
- Participate in our on-call rotation
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Eight years of production systems administration/engineering experience in a Linux/UNIX environment, including at least four years in web operations
- Strong understanding of technologies such as load balancing and caching
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning for web-based applications
- Expert-level knowledge of monitoring systems and configuration management systems (Puppet, Chef, Nagios, Munin, etc...)
- Experience with virtualization using commodity hardware
- Strong scripting ability in Bash, Ruby, Perl and/or Python
- Ability to successfully work with multiple remote customers
- Strong personal and professional initiative with a focus on the success of the team and organization
Sr. DevOps Systems Engineer (Linux)
Do you like making order out of chaos? Are you effective when managing an automation architecture or a configuration management solution that will handle multiple environments? Are you always looking for ways to manage servers more efficiently? If so, let's talk.
What you'll do at BitPusher:
- Lead efforts to design, refine, improve, and maintain a robust configuration management solution (based on puppet)
- Lead efforts to design, develop, implement, and maintain a complex automation approach for server and environment management
- Provide automated solutions for recurring issues, predictable problems, and things which can 'self-heal'
- Be a hands-on engineer for BitPusher's infrastructure, including networking, imaging and provisioning environment, and administrative/operations automation tools
- Play an leading role in coming up with better ways to administer large numbers of systems on diverse networks supporting diverse applications, by improving technical practices, solutions, and processes
- Help take our application hosting techniques to the next level, both through incremental improvements and new platform design
- Serve as an internal resource for our customer facing systems engineers in order to automate solutions to problems
- Work on other related special projects that focus on: tools architecture, systems automation, configuration management, and environment scalability
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Eight years of production systems administration/engineering experience in a Linux/UNIX environment, including at least four years in web operations
- Strong understanding of technologies such as load balancing and caching (especially with open source solutions)
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning for web-based applications
- Expert-level knowledge of monitoring systems and configuration management systems
- Expert-level knowledge of scripting focused on server management automation in a common scripting language (ruby, python, perl, etc...)
- Experience with virtualization using commodity hardware
- Ability to successfully work with multiple remote environments
- Strong personal and professional initiative with a focus on the success of the team and organization
How to Apply to BitPusher
To apply for either role, please submit your resume to hr@bitpusher.com
Linux Enterprise Systems Administrator at UW Medicine
UW Medicine IT Services is looking for an outstanding ENTERPRISE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR to join our team! The Enterprise System Administrator is responsible for the primary support of enterprise servers at UW Medicine. This may include many environments within a system, including production, development, testing, and training environments. Responsibilities include operational, technical, and administrative elements that ensure the availability, reliability, security, and performance of the servers necessary to support the needs of the business. It is also the responsibility of the Enterprise System Administrator to maintain a high level of technical competency, provide documentation, be a team participant, contribute effectively to projects, and conduct themselves in a professional manner. The Enterprise System Administrator needs to understand the dependencies on University of Washington and IT Services computing infrastructure which includes network, security, and data center configurations in a very large computing environment.
Skills required: Red Hat Linux (automated builds, configuration management, etc), Virtualization (VMware), Perl/sh programming, distributed storage experience (SAN, NAS), web server management (Apache, Tomcat).
More information: http://tinyurl.com/7ta8ox2
Expires January 2012
Systems Administrator, 5 - 7 y exp
Are you a Linux Systems Administrator is looking for the opportunity to Build, automate; overall evolve an infrastructure to help deliver an amazing product platform? Are you a versatile self-starter with an eye for detail and a strong sense of ownership? Like working with smart tech types? If you said yes you and I should talk.
Our Media company is looking for a strong Systems Administrator that wants to with like minded, smart folks working on a content management system and web publishing platform. At the heart of the systems is a core focus on using data collection, analytics, machine learning, and optimization techniques on large numerical and unstructured data from social media streams and other sources.
Things you will be doing :
- Investigate and implement ‘Best Practices’ for systems administration within our infrastructure
- Own the automation, stability and maintenance of our production systems
- Contribute to the architecture of our systems with your own ideas, strong opinions and educated domain knowledge
Things you need to know to get the job done:
- 5+ years of experience in various Linux flavors (we use mainly Ubuntu and CentOS)
- 3+ years of experience supporting 24X7, high availability internet application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems
- 3+ years of experience with F5/Cisco hardware
- 3+ years of experience using large MySQL installation (including master-master/multi-slave replication setups)
- 2+ years of experience implementing Configuration Management frameworks (e.g. CFEngine, puppet, chef)
- 2+ years of experience with Nagios monitoring
- Very strong scripting skills
- Comfortable working in a highly-collaborative agile development environment
Location: Seattle Job Title: Linux Systems Administrator Salary: (Very competitive, lets talk)
Call me or email me. John at recruitingpoint.com
John Bilodeau | Sr. Technical Recruiter| Recruiting Point Inc. |o: 206.600.7899 Ex 211 | 206.701.9187 We find great intellectual capital.
Sytems Administrator
Great sysadmin job in Pioneer Square. Work in Engineering, not IT support.
contact lhester@intrepidls.com http://www.intrepidls.com/company/employment/
Requirements:
Proven track record administering LAMP environments, 5 years+
Versatile self-starter with an eye for detail and a strong sense of ownership.
Experience with Apache Tomcat and the Java technology stacks.
Understanding of Ubuntu Linux, and how it’s different from RHEL/CentOS/other
Programming/scripting skills in at least one language, perl or ruby a plus
Experience with open source management software, such as nagios, RT, munin, openVAS
3+ years Virtualization experience with VMware vCenter, vSphere and ESXi
Good understanding of routing, switching, firewalls and load-balancing. JunOS a plus.
Strong understanding of a configuration management system such as puppet or cfengine
Knowledge and experience managing MySQL. MongoDB or elasticsearch a plus.
Expires December 2011
Software Apps Engineer II
http://www.cobalt.com/careers/
The Applications Engineer's role is to ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of all information systems that support our hosted applications.
The Applications Engineer will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues. By engaging with the development teams as part of the Agile development process the Lead Applications Engineer will influence the end product to ensure a seamless transition to the production environment. Job Description
Recommends alterations to development and design to improve quality of products and/or procedures.
Develop, implement and document the configuration standards policies and procedures for operating, managing and ensuring security of the Server environment.
Research and integrate new technologies into existing data center environments.
Server and system performance tuning and monitoring.
Communicates with Developers, DBA's, other IT departments and management related to issues affecting test, development and production systems.
Install, support, and configure new server software.
Analyze system logs and identify potential issues with server systems.
Duties and Responsibilities
Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems.
Ensure compatibility and interoperability of in-house computing systems.
Monitor and analyze metrics in order to implement optimization strategies.
Drives continuous improvement - design, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies.
Collaborates with the Network Operations team to ensure systems are monitored and issues are responded to in an appropriate manner and time frame.
Strong problem solving skills.
Strong conceptual and analytical skills.
Good written and oral communication skills.
Experience with Weblogic, Tomcat, and Java in a Production Environment.
College degree in computer science, information systems, or computer engineering or equivalent business experience.
Self motivated.
System Engineer III
http://www.cobalt.com/careers/
Cobalt (an ADP company) - the automotive industry's most comprehensive provider of integrated solutions for digital advertising is in need of a Sr. Systems Engineer. The candidate will work with a team of engineers that supports the design, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of IT solutions. The position requires minimum 8+ years as a System Administrator managing a 24x7x365 hosting environment. Primary responsibilities will focus on the design and management of hosting center systems. The ideal candidate would also have some experience with IBM P-Series as well as AIX 5.x or higher.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Design and manage IT hosting infrastructure, with the ability to anticipate potential problems, make recommendations, and implement solutions with regard to high-availability and scalability. Ability to identify, troubleshoot and resolve hardware, backup, storage, and operating system related issues.. Perform daily operational activities around monitoring and maintenance of production systems as well as provide visibility of these activities through administrative tools such as change management, incident management, ticketing systems, etc. Provide 24x7/365 rotational support of production systems & services.
Secondary Functions
Work with information systems and customer service organizations when addressing reliability and availability related issues in our production infrastructure. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to manage/lead multiple projects and assignments. Detail oriented individual capable of working both independently and within a team.
Focus
Linux systems administration VMWare design and implementation Systems Configuration Management Server hardware administration Hardware, maintenance & support.
Qualifications Required :
Eight+ years of system administration experience a must, namely in Unix Hosting environments. Previous experience designing and managing VMWare virtualization solutions is essential. Previous experience designing and deploying configuration management solutions Experience with Sitescope/Nagios monitoring solutions is desirable. Candidate should have deep familiarity with Linux specifically RedHat, CentOS, or Oracle Unbreakable Linux. Solid documentation and data presentation skills.
Desired Knowledge Areas
RedHat, CentOS, and Oracle Unbreakable Linux. VMWare virtualization. Configuration Management IBM X and P Series Perl/Shell Scripting
Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention (SCHARP) at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention (SCHARP) at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center currently has an exciting opportunity available for a Systems Administrator II (AD-23532).
SCHARP is seeking a Systems Administrator to work in a team of system administrators in a heterogeneous environment of Linux and Windows computers to support SCHARP computer requirements.
The Systems Administrator will be responsible for Linux and Windows systems administration in a mixed network. Activities include: system management, software installation/configuration, network security, upgrades, systems related scripting/programming, and infrastructure planning.
For more information about the position and to apply, please visit the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center website at www.fhcrc.org and search for Job# AD-23682.
Hiring multiple FreeBSD developers with Isilon in Seattle
Isilon is seeking kernel Software Development Engineers to join the File Systems team and work on OneFS, the distributed Operating System based on FreeBSD that is optimized to be the industry leading scale-out unified storage solution.
The Isilon File Systems team is responsible for most of the in-kernel components of OneFS including the distributed data path, fault tolerant transaction & journaling sub-system, two stage distributed lock manager as well as various storage features such as snapshots, data de-duplication, quotas, etc.
Responsibilities include a mix of maintenance and innovation, design and development, deep testing of core kernel components, as well as component performance evaluation and enhancement.
These are fulltime positions and please feel reach out to me at dave.aydelott@isilon.com
Please no 3rd party agencies.
Careers | Isilon Systems http://www.isilon.com/careers-isilon
Isilon provides scalable storage solutions. Clustered storage helps media and entertainment, life sciences, Web 2.0, oil and gas and other industries.
Data storage, management and recovery!
Expires: Dec. 2011
Looking for a Sr. Linux Admin. at OpenMarket in Seattle
OpenMarket is looking for a Sr. Linux Administrator for our downtown Seattle office (two blocks north of Pike Place Market). Ideally, someone with a CentOS or RHEL background.
On-call rotates weekly, starting on Friday mornings. While it's 24/7 during that time, in practice, the whole team handles issues during the business day. Most people use individual work-provided phones to receive alerts, though sending them to a personal phone is an option. Alert frequency is currently around one a day or so, but widely variable with serious issues much more rare. Our SA's are paid an additional amount to be on-call.
While we don't have any required travel, it is not uncommon for members of the team to visit other sites once or twice a year. Travel for datacenter work not very likely.
Please see the full job description here:
You can apply directly at the link above.
