Systems Administrator

Role**: Systems Administrator

Required Technical Skill Set: Systems Administrator

Desired Experience Range: 5 - 7 yrs

Notice Period: Immediate to 90Days only

Bangalore

Interview

Primary Skills:

Systems Operations

• Three or more years of infrastructure monitoring experience

• Experience with Varnish caching

• Experience in installing and configuring Icinga2

• Experience with Icingaweb2 Interface.

• Experience Creating NAGIOS check plugins.

• Experience in installing and configuring ZABBIX

• Experience with Zabbix web interface

• Knowledge with scripting languages (BASH, Python,).

• Experience with Linux (Installation, Configuration, Tuning).

Secondary Skills:

As a technical front-line resource, the Systems Administrator II is a mentor and escalation point for junior members of the Systems Operations team. This role’s primary responsibility is to monitor, triage, and resolve or escalate issues as necessary in a world class 24/7/365 production environment. The Systems Administrator II will also act as a resource to collaborate with teams to prevent or minimize impact of potential issues. They will achieve this by blending a strong set of troubleshooting skills with a strong understanding of our infrastructure and production pipelines.

Job Summary:

As a technical front-line resource, the Systems Administrator II is a mentor and escalation point for junior members of the Systems Operations team. This role’s primary responsibility is to monitor, triage, and resolve or escalate issues as necessary in a world class 24/7/365 production environment. The Systems Administrator II will also act as a resource to collaborate with teams to prevent or minimize impact of potential issues. They will achieve this by blending a strong set of troubleshooting skills with a strong understanding of our infrastructure and production pipelines.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Participate on small to medium application and infrastructure implementation projects and ensure the result conforms to System Operations monitoring standards
• Support in carrying out Operational tasks as assigned.
• Interacts and communicates with supervisor and peers. Receives and transmits routine information requiring some explanation or interpretation, to members of the team.
• Ability to resolve infrastructure operational issues with a moderate to high degree of complexity while following established procedures or analyzing data to diagnose and identify root causes when necessary, to resolve issues or complete assignments.
• Communicate with internal contacts at a variety of organizational levels to diagnose, explain and resolve problems for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in supporting high profile events.
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic, initiative and the ability to aggressively and effectively troubleshoot problems and perform root cause analysis.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, growth environment with minimal direction.
• Able to operate with limited resources, exhibit dispassionate critical-thinking, and creatively solve problems. Motivated and inventive, always finds a way forward—eternal optimist with a committed drive for contributing and making a difference.
• Any other duties needed to help achieve business objectives, including participating in an on-call rotation.
• Escalate and triage monitoring alerts

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

Minimum :

• Three or more years of progressively complex related experience.
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience
• Proactive thinker with strong problem solving skills.
• Experience with Linux (Installation, Configuration, Tuning).
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge with scripting languages (BASH, Python,).
• Experience with Ansible and Ansible Tower.
• Good understanding of security and networking concepts.
• Experience with IPMI tool
• Experience utilizing infrastructure monitoring solutions. (Icinga, Zabbix)
• Able to work non-traditional hours, in non-traditional settings. This includes weekends, evenings, and holidays

Preferred :

• Three or more years of infrastructure monitoring experience
• Experience with Varnish caching
• Experience in installing and configuring Icinga2
• Experience with Icingaweb2 Interface.
• Experience Creating NAGIOS check plugins.
• Experience in installing and configuring ZABBIX
• Experience with Zabbix web interface