Scrollmotion Inc
2011-Sep-21 02:42 UTC
New York City (US) - Linux/FreeBSD System Administrator
Linux/FreeBSD Systems Administrator in New York City US (no remote work, no help with relocation). Scrollmotion, a leading App development company, is seeking a Linux/FreeBSD system administrator to work out of it?s New York office. Environment: Mix of Ubuntu Linux and FreeBSD (mostly Ubuntu, but number of FreeBSD may increase once second admin with FreeBSD experience is on board). Most servers are VMs hosted at Rackspace. Users on a mostly Mac environment. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Linux/FreeBSD setup, administration, performance tuning, monitoring, maintaining fault tolerance, and account management * Backups, disaster Recovery management and testing * Performs application upgrades and updates during change control windows * Create and maintain up-to-date documentation * Provide level 2 tech support for users in NY office (light) Must have: * 3+ years experience in a Linux or FreeBSD environment * Experience with: Apache, Postfix, sudo * Experience with any virtualization servers (Xen, VMware, Citrix) or cloud services (Amazon AWS, Rackspace) * Shell scripting * Experience with a database system and some SQL (basic queries for simple reports) * Team player Nice to have: * Some python * Postgresql experience * Experience with Samba * Experience working in a Mac environment * Juniper firewall or Cisco switches exposure * Experience with open source configuration management tool (Puppet, Chef, cfengine) * UNIX/Linux and Windows Active Directory authentication integration * System monitoring (Nagios, Cacti, HP OpenView, OEM, etc), Monit * Backup experience. This is a full time position in New York City; no remote work. 2 weeks vacation and health insurance. For consideration please send resume with a brief cover letter and include salary requirement. Feel free to write with any questions. For more info about us please see our site at http://scrollmotion.com/ Please, no recruiters or consulting agencies.