Our client is looking for experienced and challenge driven system administrator who is ready to move to the next level. The Senior System Administrator is responsible for deployment, security, monitoring, and operations of SaaS platform. NOTE: The successful incumbent will be required to be on­call for Level­3 escalation (on rotation).

Responsibilities:

• Develop system solutions that have high availability/ scalability.
• Effectively monitor performance of systems and make recommendations for improvement of enterprise applications (private and public cloud).
• Ensure Hosting SLAs are met.
• Perform all operational and administrative activities for system management including diagnosing/troubleshooting complex problems.
• Identify and solve issues in a fast­paced atmosphere.
• On­call for Level­3 support escalation on a rotating basis with other operations personnel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 5 years related experience
• 3+ years administering both Microsoft Windows/IIS and LAMP stack
• 3+ years experience managing RDBMS – MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL.
• Minimum of 1 year hands­-on experience automating and monitoring systems, managing/operating large­scale production systems in private and/or public clouds on VMWare virtualization or Amazon AWS
• Minimum of 1 year hands­on experience provisioning, configuring, and patching applications and OS in production environment
• Experience with network file servers, RAID, SAN, NAS, CDN, and DR/backups.
• Excellent network and system troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with firewalls and DNS setup.
• Experience with scalable deployments, high­availability and advanced failover.
• Team player who thrives in a fast­paced, intellectually challenging performance driven environment.
• Strong time management skills required to be able to work autonomously in a fast­paced environment.
• Detail oriented with a tenacity to succeed
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment

Bonus points:

• Experience in Information Security:
• Infrastructure: Firewall, IDS/lPS, SIEM, VPN, Security Analysis and Management Apps, such as: Alienvault, Metasploit, Nessus, OpenVAS, SNORT
• Security Assessment, Audit, Policy Analysis and Development: ISO 27K, ITIL
• Hands­-on experience with public cloud CLI, SDK/APIs
• Experience with Linux shell scripting
• Experience with NoSQL databases, PHP, Python

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