Senior System Administrator
Duration: 4+ month’s contract with opportunity to turn FTE
Oracle Location: Durham, NC 27701
***Candidate MUST be local to Durham, NC or willing to relocate at their own expense***
***3 month contract with opportunity to turn FTE***
***Must haves: Great collaboration and communication skills, Excellent Linux skills***
Title: Senior System Administrator
As part of Bronto’s System Engineering team, the Senior Systems Administrator will play a key role in ensuring uptime and scalability of the Bronto application and infrastructure.
We are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to work on the Bronto System Engineering Team to assist in maintaining and scaling the Linux based infrastructure our SaaS platform relies upon.
Responsibilities Include
• Active hands-on participant on the System Administration Operations team to build, deploy, and maintain the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure underlying our SaaS offering
• Troubleshoot issues, coordinate maintenance efforts, evaluate new technologies, and continually iterate and improve on our existing infrastructure
• Produce and maintain detailed documentation and required updates as dictated by business needs and to the required team standards
• Monitor, administer, and troubleshoot storage environment, including virtual machine migrations, latency sensitive database LUNs, and lifecycle management of existing storage subsystems
• Drive and own projects to support and execute on team and company goals.
• Work in a fast paced, dynamic, and challenging environment that is constantly changing to meet Bronto’s business demands and need for scale
• Have an ability and willingness to offer strategic guidance, mentorship, collaboration and facilitate career growth amongst other System Administrators
• Participation in On-Call rotation is required after 60 days
• Participation in local physical data center rotation is required
• Participation in infrequent off-hours maintenances required
Required Skills and Experience
• Proven skills in Linux administration, troubleshooting, and tuning a must
• Must possess a strong “team focus” with proven collaboration skills that foster an environment of learning and working together to get the job done
• In-depth understanding of virtualization, scalability, and security
• K of Xen based virtualization, containers, ZFS administration, and cloud architecture is a strong plus
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting LDAP, DNS, NFS, iSCSI, and other core Linux services required
• Shell scripting and some familiarity with Ruby or Python required
• Work experience at a cloud service provider and intimate knowledge of the complexities of administering and managing a cloud environment highly desirable (AWS/OCI/Azure)
• Experience with Puppet and Git a plus
• 5+ years in Linux System Administration experience in a medium to large network distributed and computing environment.
• 7+ years in Information Technology
• BS in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Red Hat and Oracle certifications a plus
Thanks & Regards,
Imran (Emu) Shikalgar
APN Software Services, Inc
39899 Balentine Drive, Suite 385, Newark, CA 94560
510-402-4704 (Voice & Text)
Phone: 510-623-5050 Extn.129 | Fax 510-623-5055 | Imran@apninc.com
linkedin.com/in/imranshikalgar