Our client, Netskrt is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator that is dedicated to delivering best of breed systems; built on high performance and hardened security, achieved through virtualization, automation and orchestration. Netskrt's eCDN managed service is comprised of three major components: intelligent content collection, staging and distribution; adaptive networking, leveraging connectivity as and when available; and an edge cache that allows users to access the content they want locally, using the apps and subscriptions that they already have. We are a highly motivated team, dedicated to delivering products and services that improve the customer experience when accessing internet video at the edges of the network. We are developing a set of inter-related technologies targeting businesses that offer WiFi to their customers but which have limited bandwidth.
Is this you?
You have exceptional technical skills, and enjoy solving challenging problems. You are a quick learner, you adapt easily and you have great interpersonal and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
• Installing, configuring and maintaining physical and/or virtual machines with Linux OS to provide stable and secure computing environments in remote data centres, and on premise.
• Maintaining and monitoring the integrity of the infrastructure (hardware and software) and operating environment. This includes the Linux OS, system performance and security access; troubleshooting deployment, configuration and integration issues in development, test and production environments.
• Research and advise on new technology implementations. Research, install, test and deploy HW & SW updates and patches.
Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience:
• Senior-level technical expertise in the infrastructure design and system administration of bare metal, VM and orchestrated deployments; operation, maintenance and security of Linux servers.
• Expertise with open-source technologies, virtualization and cloud services, including OpenStack cloud computing platform.
• Experience with configuration, orchestration and automation tools: Ansible, Puppet, Foreman.
• Experience with Identity Management Systems (FreeIPA).
• Experience with web servers and load balancers (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, etc.) and CEPH open-source SW-defined storage.
• Experience with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps operations, including knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Scrum/ Kanban and Agile workflow methodologies.
• Experience with monitoring and logging infrastructure (Zabbix, Splunk, Prometheus, …).
• Solid knowledge of TCPIP networking and related network services (i.e. DNS, SMTP, DHCP, …), Firewalls (pfSense, IPtables, …), VLANs.
• Effective communication regarding system operations and environment changes. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic.
Desired Qualifications:
• Knowledge of patch management, intrusion detection/prevention systems.
• Experience with caching and CDN (content delivery network) technologies (Netflix, Amazon, Google, Limelight, Akamai, Fastly).
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