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[Discuss] [Position-available] Linux System Admin



We have a couple positions open for both Sr & Jr Linux System Engineers.
Please contact me directly or through Bullhorn's website (
http://bull.hn/l/1B7S8/) if interested.

Location: South Boston (near South Station)

Compensation: commensurate with experience

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k, plus more

Job Type: Permanent, Direct Hire

Job Description

*Position Overview:*

The Systems Administrator is responsible for building, implementing, and
managing products and solutions for Bullhorn?s production environment,
while ensuring 24/7 availability.  The position will require an excellent
understanding of LAMP stack technologies along with windows services and
configuration.  The ideal candidate will have proven technical experience
with a solid foundation of operating system and networking skills along
with a positive attitude.

*Responsibilities:*

   - Design, build, implement, and manage products and solutions for
   Bullhorn?s production environment
   - Monitor and maintain all production system equipment and services
   - Participate in the planning and coordination of new product deployment
   and enhancement projects, ensuring preparedness in servicing the product
   - Ensure 24/7 availability of the production application environment.
   This will include 24/7 on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis.
   - Develop system analysis and reporting tools and tools for task
   automation
   - Document technical environments, processes and procedures, testing
   plans, project plans.
   - Provide direct support to Software Development, Quality Engineering,
   Customer Support, Professional Services and third party vendors as needed
   to resolve production problems
   - Maintain network and systems configurations for national and
   international data centers.

*Required Skills and Experience:*

   - Bachelor?s Degree or equivalent experience required.
   - 5+ years total experience with systems administration, as well
   as hardware and software troubleshooting
   - Extensive experience with Redhat or CentOS
   - Windows Server 2003, 2008 experience preferred
   - Solid understanding of TCP/IP, network devices such as switches, hubs,
   routers, firewalls
   - JBoss/Tomcat/Apache
   - Shell, Python, PHP and Perl scripting
   - Previous experience in a SaaS and/or high volume website environment
   preferred
   - Must work well in high pressure environments
   - Experience in automation and managing large server environment
   - LDAP/Kerberos authentication against Microsoft Active Directory
   - SAN and NAS technologies (iSCSI, FCP, CIFS, NFS, etc)
   - Java/Tomcat
   - Open Source Project experience
   - Previous oncall experience
   - Puppet/CFEngine
   - Splunk/SyslogNG



Matt



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