Friday, September 3, 2010

ON HOLD: Linux Systems Administrator (Boulder, CO)

Exciting and growing start-up in downtown boulder, CO is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator to help keep our high-traffic web-based service offering up and available around the clock. Join a small team team of Systems Admins to help further develop our network infrastructure to meet rapidly growing demands - and we mean rapidly growing - our systems must be able to handle large spikes and sudden, large usage increases. Are you up for the challenge?


Responsibilites:

Help improve the performance, availability and resilience of our service delivery infrastructure.

Make meaningful contributions to the architectural design of our products.

Perform daily monitoring and backup activities.

Identify potential weaknesses and make recommendations for imrovement.

Build and manage server, network and storage equipment.

Leverage and manage cloud-based virtual servers, CDN services, and other third-party services.

Provide desktop support for Windows, Mac and Linux workstations and laptops.

Manage office support services, such as internet, Exchange, and printing capabilities.



Desired skills:

Linux Systems administration (Senior-level Experience)

Experience with Ubuntu and Red Hat.

Experience with System Administration tools. syslog, NFS, Cacti, Nagios, etc.

Network administration experience. Cisco, Checkpoint, Foundry, etc.

Windows administration.

Virtualization. VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc.

Storage administration experience. Linux Volume Management, RAID, iSCSI, SANs, etc.

Experience with Apache and MySQL. (Hadoop and Tomcat a plus)

Good interpersonal skills. Must be assertive and highly collaborative. Must be able to communicate well ... and that means listen well too. We're looking for a true team player.

Participate in one-week-on, two-weeks-off pager rotation.


Please send resumes/cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

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