Senior Linux Kernel Engineer - Core Runtime | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Senior Linux Kernel Engineer - Core Runtime | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Senior Linux Kernel Engineer - Core Runtime

Software Engineering | San Francisco, CA

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Linux Kernel Engineer - Core Runtime

Twitter is seeking an experienced software engineer obsessed with evolving the Linux kernel in revolutionary ways.  You should love working at the lowest levels of the software stack looking for innovative ways to maximize performance of our critical workloads on cutting edge hardware technology.
In this role, you will be exposed to Twitter's core infrastructure and application architectures and in-depth knowledge of each component, in addition to submerging yourself in the Linux and open source communities.  You should be excited at the prospect of working with our world class engineering teams and bleeding edge technology to enable highly scalable and performant software stack for a one-of-kind system.
Responsibilities

• Research and develop Linux kernel optimizations
• Actively involved in and interface with Linux and open source community
• Develop innovative solutions at kernel layer to enable Twitter platform vision
• Hands on debugging of complex production systems issues
• Collaborate with hardware team to determine and qualify next generation of server platform

Requirements

• Intimate knowledge of x86 hardware and Linux internals and one or more major subsystems (storage, file systems, network, memory management, etc.)
• Experience with storage/file system kernel code is preferred
• Experience working within the wider Linux community
• Strong programming capabilities two or more: C, C++, Assembly, Python
• Hands-on experience Linux kernel development
• Ability to independently lead large development efforts
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-function teams

Desired Skills:

• BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Passion for elegance and simplicity.
• You take pride in designing solutions that will outlive the problem.
• You can provide a link to your public github repo or technology blog.

• You are awesome, passionate, and nice.

 

 

 

https://about.twitter.com/careers/positions?jvi=oAObZfwi,Job 

 

 

 

Linux/Unix Administrator / System Admin II #15540 | Tetra Tech, Inc. | Ashburn VA US

Linux/Unix Administrator / System Admin II #15540 | Tetra Tech, Inc. | Ashburn VA US


Linux/Unix Administrator / System Admin II

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Operating Unit : PRO telligent

Location : Ashburn VA US 20146

% of Travel Required : No

Career Level : Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education : Bachelor's Degree

Category : Information Technology

Job Description :

The Linux/Unix System Administrator is responsible for performing the day-to-day operations and support of the datacenter Red Hat and Sun Solaris environments. This position will perform tier-2 escalation support and must possess experience in the operations and support of computer systems in a multi-server environment, with a focus on system administration of UNIX operating systems.

Primary responsibility will include hands on technical support work related to the overall health and maintenance of the operating system environments (Red Hat/Solaris) in support of 24/7 operations. Additionally, this individual is responsible for supporting operating system changes required for the transition of new applications into the datacenter.

·         Provide hands on technical support (Tier-2) related to the overall health and maintenance of the Linux/Solaris operating environments in support of 24/7 operations

·         Perform remote monitoring of server/system health and status using provided tools (e.g., BMC, Satellite Server, Operations Manager)

·         Ability to decompose complex problems to ensure timely and accurate resolution of system anomalies before they impact operations

·         Understanding of server ‘virtualization’

·         Work with engineering and/or entity personnel to identify and troubleshoot operational and performance related issues

·         Participate in rotational pager duty to provide on-call support; including off-hours server administration and problem escalation

·         Plan and execute the installation and configuration of Linux/UNIX server operating environments within the datacenter (Red Hat / Sun Solaris)

Job Requirements :

Experience Job Requirements:

·         Must have an active TS/SCI

·         2+ years Linux or Solaris system administration experience including virtualization

·         Excellent communication and teamwork skills

·         Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills             

·         ALL positions require Sec+ certification within 90 days of start to be 8570 compliant.

·         Pager duty required to support on-call escalation procedures

 

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

·         IT Operations experience in the Intelligence Community

·         Red Hat or Solaris administration experience

·         Knowledge of networking protocols, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP & NFS

·         Development of scripts (shell/PERL)

·         Storage Administration experience (NetApp, EMC, SUN, SGI)

·         Virtualization experience in an operational environment

·         Experience in supporting 24/7 operations

Education Requirements:     

Associates degree in IT related field and 5 years’ experience OR 7 years’ experience.

Security Clearance Requirements:

Must be a United States citizen able to obtain/maintain a federal security clearance.  TS/SCI                                                                 

Job Code : PRT040814-27

Recruiter Contact Information : Carlton Carpenter CarpenterC@pro-telligent.com

 

 

https://tetratech.tms.hrdepartment.com/jobs/15540/Linux-Unix-Administrator-System-Admin-IIAshburn-VA?lcid=en-US 

 

 

 

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer #1400029 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer #1400029 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer

IT - Network Operations

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Are you a UNIX geek stuck in the body of a corporate IT drone?  When you find a system performance problem do you reach for the kernel source code before google.com?  Have you ever stumped third level support from a major Linux distribution vendor? Can you kickstart 50 servers at once while writing a Python script in another screen?  Is your home PC a Linux machine with a RAID?

 

Do you have a passion to help Blizzard Entertainment games remain the best in the world?

If this sounds like you, read on...

 

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented systems engineer to join our network operations engineering team.  The ideal candidate has an intimate understanding of the deployment and tuning of multiple flavors of UNIX systems (particularly Linux), as well as software development skills to automate and improve processes in a large (10,000+) server infrastructure.  The individual must also be able to work with little guidance, and be comfortable in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

 

Responsibilities

• Design environments according to project requirements.
• Perform system performance tuning and administration.
• Research new technologies including software and hardware, based on business requirements.
• Manage and gather statistical trending data for capacity planning.
• Assist developers in implementing changes in non-production environments.
• Follow procedures identified by SOX and PCI standards.
• Document operational processes and procedures.
• Mentor system administrators and technicians.
• Participate in production support and in on-call duties.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years’ system administration experience
• Strong Linux administration background
• Mastery of all aspects of system administration
• Able to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl, Python, Shell)
• Experience with web and application services running Apache HTTPD and Tomcat in a load balanced environment
• Strong performance troubleshooting skills
• Cultivate working relationships with development, QA, DBAs, and other teams as required
• Require minimal training and supervision

Pluses

• A degree in computer science or a related field
• Significant programming background in any applicable language
• Experience with EMC SAN technologies and VERITAS Storage Foundation software
• Experience with supporting MySQL and Oracle
• Able to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs
• Able to play the lead role in projects

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games you are currently playing

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

 

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id=1400029

Linux Systems Administrator #140005S | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Linux Systems Administrator #140005S | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Linux Systems Administrator

IT - Information Systems

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a self-motivated and talented linux administrator to join our applications team.  This person will primarily be focused on the applications running in our linux environment, e.g., perforce, SVN, Jira, Confluence, etc.  The ideal candidate would be someone who understands client / server applications and the underlying technologies.

What’s the Team like?

We’re a close-knit group of talented IT professionals. We work in the coolest environment and have access to the best IT technology.  Most of us live in the Irvine area.  We are passionate about all games and products produced by Blizzard.  We eat and drink together and play SC II, DIII, and WoW together. Our main hours of operational coverage are from 8AM – 7PM.  Unless you are on-call, a normal shift is eight hours. Training opportunities are made available to learn and grow, and you will learn new skills on the job. Personal growth and embracing your inner geek are also encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Support the core backend / internal facing IT infrastructure, which include StarCraft, Diablo, and World of WarCraft development teams.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical problems relating to systems and applications.
• Perform maintenance / upgrades to applications and systems.
• Deployment of new technologies while adhering to best practice.
• Performance tuning of servers and services.
• Assist in automating internal processes and procedures.
• Follow incident, problem, crisis, and change management processes.
• Work with global IT teams to assist in supporting global office IT infrastructure.

Requirements

• Familiar of SQL and database concepts
• Experience with Atlassian products (Confluence, Jira, Fisheye, etc.)
• Experience administering and maintaining code / asset repositories (SVN, GIT, Perforce, etc.)
• Able to write scripts and / or programs using an administrative language (Batch, Bash, Perl, PowerShell, Python, C#, etc.)
• Experience with VMware vSphere or other enterprise virtualization administration
• Familiar with fundamental computer science concepts
• A minimum of 3 years’ of Unix / Linux Systems administration
• In-depth knowledge of network protocols, such as IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, NTP, SNMP, etc.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Able to document team policies and procedures if they do not already exist
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills
• Excellent customer support skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Proven oral and written communication skills
• Able to prioritize, address, and follow through on multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Available to be on-call for emergencies; able to work weekends if needed

Pluses

• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Information Technology, Science or Engineering)
• Familiar with Software Build Environments
• Familiar with OpenStack or vCloud
• Certification in any UNIX based operating system (SCSA, AIX, RHCE)
• Experience in a Large-Scale computing environment
• Experience with NAS and SAN Systems
• Knowledge of ITIL practices and experience with their application in an IT department
• A passion for video games and film

Application must submit (i) a cover letter, (ii) and a resume. Only submittals with cover letters will be considered. 

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id=140005S

Senior Linux Systems Administrator #13000JX | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Linux Systems Administrator #13000JX | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

IT - Network Operations

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking talented IT systems admins, and we know we’re not alone in our search.  So why Blizzard? Because it’s a haven for our kind!  Our unique blend of opportunity, environment, and people all help make Blizzard the studio worthy of your career.  You’ll be joining a network operations team that attacks challenges and crafts solutions with the same enthusiasm and creativity as our players do in our games. We love keeping up with and getting to use the latest technology, and take pride in protecting and gatekeeping some of the world’s most popular and beloved gaming franchises.  And just like the company as a whole, our team is built on a culture of passion for who we are, what we create, and who we support. We want to hear from skilled system admins ready and eager to continue this adventure with us. If you like what you read below, drop us a line!

 

What is Network Operations (BONS)?

Blizzard online network systems is the global network operations team responsible for supporting ALL of Blizzard’s customer-facing IT systems and services.  Such services include Battle.net, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm.  In addition to managing these IT platforms, BONS also works closely with our development teams throughout a product’s lifecycle.  Our team’s mission statement: ​Innovating and delivering global technology solutions to power the most epic entertainment experience... ​​Ev​​er.​​​​​​

 

Understand your Responsibilities

Design and Implement

As a senior system admin you will spearhead integration of complex and customized open source, and / or proprietary products to support multi-thousand node production environments. Resolve sophisticated environment obstacles by driving proof of concept designs to completion, analyzing its benefits, and developing integration roadmaps. This includes mass-scale infrastructure deployments and upgrades, as well as day to day optimizations.

Troubleshoot and Support

As the bread-and-butter of an admin team, you will resolve critical environment outages, whether hardware or software in nature, and develop solutions or automations to prevent such problems from reoccurring. In this role you will also debug and improve internal services, propose patches, maintain internal repository branches, and manage internal package distribution. As with most IT groups you will share off-hours duties for global on-call coverage on a rotational basis.

Security and Stability
Security is everyone’s job. As the core backbone of operations, you will identify security weaknesses and propose solutions that hold stability and security in the forefront. Perform security audits, system patching, and educate peers and internal / external customers on security practices and principles.

Lead and Grow
As a senior member of our admin team, you will regularly construct and provide training sessions on complex subjects or newly evolving technologies to peers and internal customers, including upper management. In this leadership position, you will actively engage with peers to provide consultation and direction, as well as develop documentation on new or old technologies and how it relates to internal systems.

Technical Requirements

Time in the field
This position requires a minimum of 5 years’ experience supporting an operations group which focuses on service stability, security, and customer satisfaction.

The Technicalities
You should be the MacGyver equivalent of IT. As an expert in the field, you should hold intricate knowledge of all-things Linux, from understanding various kernel subsystems to OS security models or how to customize your own distribution. In-depth knowledge of fundamental Internet standards encompassing DHCP, PXE, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP and many other services that stretch between the inter-tubes should hold a permanent slot in your array of wisdom and experience.

Script and Develop
Perhaps someday we’ll all be replaced by a script, but until that day, we do the scripting. Advanced scripting skills in Shell and at least one additional administrative language such as Python, Ruby, Perl, or PHP is a must. There won’t be a day where a script can’t help you fix a problem faster and more accurately, or where you can modify one that increases its effectiveness.

Networking and Inter-tubes
Strong understanding of networking from conceptual design to physical implementation. Solid TCP connectivity debugging experience is part of the job, which frequently means getting dirty with Linux TCP stack or helping track down protocol bugs in embedded network operating systems.

Thrive in our environment
Our environment never stays the same. The perfect candidate should exhibit a high attention to detail, adjust quickly to an ever-changing and evolving environment, and poses sharp analytical competency for all-things-technology! We like to travel while doing IT stuff; therefore occasional domestic and / or international travel is required.

A strong candidate will also bring to the table some of the following:

• Experience with LDAP, NFS, RHCS, RabbitMQ / AMQP, Splunk, Puppet, and Nagios
• Experience with Hadoop, Memcached, Redis, CouchBase, Ceph, MySQL, and Oracle
• Experience with Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins, Maven, Varnish, Artifactory, and Node.js
• Experience with Active Directory, IIS, PowerShell, DFS, and MSSQL
• Experience with virtualization, including KVM, Xen, and VMWare
• Experience with Cloud and CDN Services, including OpenStack, AWS, and Akamai
• Passion for video games and technology!

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games or technology you are currently playing with

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id=13000JX

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center | Twitter, Inc. | Dublin

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center | Twitter, Inc. | Dublin

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center (Dublin)

Infrastructure Operations | Dublin

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Our Infrastrucutre Operations team is seeking qualified candidates to join our Command Center.
 
Responsibilities:

• Effectively triage and troubleshooting a complex environment.
• Resolve Critical System Issues on a 24 x 7 basis including notification, coordination and dispatch of individuals from various functional groups.
• Take individual ownership of issues and pursue resolution tenaciously.
• Effective communication and dissemination of information to other teams and executive management.
• Following and composing process / procedure, document complex systems.

Qualifications:

• 5 - 10+ yrs of experience in a Large scale Linux/Unix environment as an administrator
• Firm Understanding of TCP/ IP Network, SMTP, SSH, DNS, CDN and network security.
• Experience scripting (shell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl).
• Knowledge of large data center environments
• Strong Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• High Attention to Detail
• Ability to work independently

• B.S. in Computer science or equivalent experience.

 
This position requires the ability to work days and possible weekend shift
 

 

https://about.twitter.com/careers/positions?jvi=ofBqXfwX,Job 

 

 

 

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Linux Systems Engineer, Twitter Command Center

Infrastructure Operations | San Francisco, CA

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Our Infrastructure Operations team is seeking qualified candidates to join our Command Center.
 
Responsibilities:

• Effectively triage and troubleshooting a complex environment.
• Resolve Critical System Issues on a 24 x 7 basis including notification, coordination and dispatch of individuals from various functional groups.
• Take individual ownership of issues and pursue resolution tenaciously.
• Effective communication and dissemination of information to other teams and executive management.
• Following and composing process / procedure, document complex systems.

Qualifications:

• 5 - 10+ yrs of experience in a Large scale Linux/Unix environment as an administrator
• Firm Understanding of TCP/ IP Network, SMTP, SSH, DNS, CDN and network security.
• Experience scripting (shell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl).
• Knowledge of large data center environments
• Strong Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• High Attention to Detail
• Ability to work independently
• B.S. in Computer science or equivalent experience.   

This position requires the ability to work days and possible weekend shift
 

 

https://about.twitter.com/careers/positions?jvi=oxsdYfwU,Job 

 

 

 

IT Systems Support / Developer #1399 | FactSet Research System Inc. | Wokingham HC UK

IT Systems Support / Developer #1399 | FactSet Research System Inc. | Wokingham HC UK


IT Systems Support / Developer

Job Code : 1399

Location : Wokingham HC UK RG40 2NW

Job Type : Full Time

Career Level : Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education : Vocational

Category : IT Support

Job Description :

 Our IT team plays a key role in the development of both internal tools and IT systems as well as supporting our existing Windows / Linux infrastructure. This role is an excellent opportunity for a driven IT Specialist to contribute significantly to the development and efficiency of Matrix Solutions’ operations.

In addition to working as part of the Systems Administration team monitoring , supporting and improving our mixed RedHat Linux and Windows Server development and production environments - you will also play a key role in developing internal systems (primarily in SharePoint) to enhance productivity and efficiency within the business.

Team members have substantial opportunity to drive change and to harness existing and new tools effectively.

The Role

Working at our Wokingham office you will have responsibility for the whole domain encompassing our Head Office in Central London as well as a co-location facility in Bristol.

Responsibilities include

• Maintaining the efficient running of the IT server systems.
• Development of Internal tools, primarily using SharePoint
• Investigating, analysing and recommending solutions to performance problems to enhance functionality, reliability and/or usability.
• Participating in the planning, testing and implementation of the firm’s managed server upgrade policy.
• Providing 1st line desktop support to all users in the organisation for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and other internal and third party applications.
• Ensuring that users follow company policy on computer usage in order to safeguard vital data and preserve systems integrity and security.
• Assisting with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop (and laptop) computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Assisting with the day-to-day monitoring, backups, maintenance and general operation of the IT infrastructure.

Job Requirements :

• Good understanding of Microsoft Windows 7 and server operating systems.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of networking principles and terminology including DHCP/DNS.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Server products (Windows Server 2008, IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server).
• Previous experience of Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS, application management, centralised Anti-Virus management.
• Security-aware.
• Logical thinker.
• Good communicator.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Friendly and professional manner.

Desirable Skills / Qualifications

• MCSA certification.
• Microsoft Server 2012
• Windows Script Host or Shell scripting
• Exposure to Linux (ideally RedHat).
• Exposure to SQL – Oracle and Microsoft Access.
• Exposure to policy-based firewalls.

Please consult our website http://www.matrixsolutions.co.uk for more information.


IT Platform

Matrix Solutions operates on a mixed technical platform, consisting of Windows Server/IIS and RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 running Oracle 10 and 11, with Glassfish also in place across platforms.

We also host several websites and web-based applications for itself and its clients. The organisation uses Microsoft Exchange Server for email and SharePoint for intranet and internal workflow management.

The successful candidate will have a good level of general IT knowledge but will not necessarily have extensive experience as a systems administrator. Ideally the candidate will have started on the path to Microsoft Certification, and will study for MCSA/MCITP/MCSE qualifications on the job.

The primary responsibility of the successful candidate will be to ensure a reliable and high quality provision of IT services by providing 1st and 2nd line support to the staff in both the London and Wokingham office, but there will also be significant opportunities to participate in upgrades and enhancements to the companies many and varied systems, to evaluate new products and to work with the Development Team and Account Managers on client-facing projects and service provision.

The role offers excellent benefits and Matrix Solutions are committed to staff development and ongoing learning.


About Matrix Solutions

Matrix Solutions delivers customer and business intelligence solutions predominantly to the financial services sector. Matrix Solutions helps clients turn data into real intelligence, increasing top-line revenue growth, improving understanding and management of customers and sales channels, and delivering operational cost savings.

We deliver practical and cost-effective solutions that have an immediate and measurable impact on business performance. The company’s unique expertise is in the integration of various disparate data sources, and in the presentation of the single customer view data in a powerful online software system that unlocks the information's intrinsic value to the organisation.

Matrix Solutions also manages market-leading databases that are constantly researched and updated in order to maintain the highest data quality. These include the Matrix Financial Intermediary Database, Matrix Investor Database and the Matrix Property Value Database.

Our Head Office is located in Central London. We have an office in Wokingham which is the main base of our Rhetorik Solutions subsidiary and which is the centre for our sales, research and data quality work.


We were were acquired by FactSet Research Systems Inc in December 2013, and will be working with FactSet’s MarketMetrics subsidiary to deliver innovative solutions to clients in the UK, Europe and North America. 

 

 

https://factset.tms.hrdepartment.com/jobs/1185/IT-Systems-Support-DeveloperWokingham-HC

Senior Systems Engineer | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Systems Engineer | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Systems Engineer

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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Responsibilities:


Reporting to Senior Engineering Manager, key position for supporting LinkedIn’s mission critical QA, test and engineering environment.

Develops and maintains shell, Python and/or Ruby scripts to enhance deployment and monitoring framework.

Develops and maintains comprehensive documentation for multiple environments.

Designs and oversees mission critical systems configurations for Redhat Enterprise Linux and Mac OS X servers.

Troubleshoots systems and network problems, collaborates with end users to resolve issues.

Designs and manages change control procedures on both RHEL and OS X.

Coordinates with engineering developers to make systems and applications changes.


Required Qualifications & Abilities:


Ability to write and maintain shell, Python and/or Ruby scripts to automate processes and enhance productivity.

Experience developing tools and processes for configuring and managing large numbers of servers.

Ability to demonstrate expert knowledge of operating system internals, file system structures and machine architectures in Linux and OS X operating environments.

Experience using enterprise cluster technologies.

Extensive experience with automated installation tools such as Kickstart.

Experiencing implementing and maintaining a system management tool such as CFEngine.

Ability to work off-hours for systems upgrades, emergencies.

Ability to solve problems quickly and decisively.

Team player who is flexible and able to work with end-users and production issues simultaneously.

Strong project management and communication skills.

Experienced working in dynamic, fast-paced Dev-Ops environment with well-developed practices and procedures.

Experience running mid-size 24x7 business critical systems (more than 2000 servers).

Proficiency in compiling, customizing and supporting tools and products obtained from source code.

Good understanding of administering network equipment including firewalls, routers, load balancers and switches.

In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and administration of NFS and NIS.

Experience supporting mobile engineering development environments a plus.

Redhat and/or OS X Linux Certification a plus.


Desired Experience:

7+ years professional experience administering one or more enterprise level Linux, UNIX, or BSD operating environments.

4+ years professional experience administering utilities such as Sendmail, Bind, SSH.


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IT System Engineer II - Linux | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

IT System Engineer II - Linux | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

IT System Engineer II - Linux

Infrastructure Operations | San Francisco, CA

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Twitter is searching for a seasoned Systems Administrator, who will be responsible for building and maintaining internal systems for Twitter’s corporate IT organization. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with supporting complex heterogeneous environments and will have core knowledge of storage, virtualization, application servers, and databases.  
The ideal candidate is someone who asks questions, is confident in not knowing everything, and would rather collaborate than go it alone. You are crisp and detail oriented, but able to fly outside of the boundaries when necessary. On top of your proven history of success, you have a passion for technology and like us you value hard work and fun in equal measure. We believe that it takes both to build a strong team.
As Twitter continues to expand, we are growing rapidly and need someone, who is ready to help our internal systems take wing and fly.  

Roles and responsibilities

• In collaboration with the other members of Twitter’s internal IT systems team, design, build, tune, maintain & administer the systems that support corporate IT services
• Work closely with Twitter’s engineering teams, to implement and maintain Twitter’s infrastructure standards including storage and virtualization
• Troubleshoot advanced issues with hardware, software, applications, & networking
• Evaluate and implement new technologies for the corporate infrastructure.
• Respond to tactical support escalations

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with the following:
• Linux/Unix systems administration
• Hardware installation and configuration
• Virtualization - VMWare preferred
• Storage - NetApp Preferred
• Experience with performance tuning, system hardening, package installation, patch management updates, and server management issues
• Demonstrate core knowledge of common applications and protocols including: HTTP/Apache, DNS/BIND, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, NFS, Puppet, Cacti, NTP, MySQL, & Nagios
• Expert knowledge of authentication or access control systems and protocols: Active Directory, LDAP, SAML, Kerberos, & PAM
• Familiarity with implementing and supporting common network & systems monitoring tools including: Syslog, MRTG, nagios, & Cacti
• Experience with VMware, Citrix or other virtualization technologies
• Write and maintain administrative scripts using Perl, Python, and/or Ruby
• Experience in fast paced, high-growth IT environment
• Expert knowledge of troubleshooting tools (i.e tcpdump, netstat, iostat, traceroute)

Desired Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer science or equivalent experience.
• Experience writing tools and automation to help with day to day tasks.
• Previous experience with IP Telephony(VOIP) & H.323 are a huge plus

• Comprehensive understanding of OSI model with a specific concentration on Layers 2-3
• Understanding of best security practices

 

 

https://about.twitter.com/careers/positions?jvi=o5OWYfwx,Job 

 

 

 

Technical Project Manager (Unix or Linux), Capital Markets - Singapore #28481 | SunGard | SG-Singapore-71 Robinson Road

Technical Project Manager (Unix or Linux), Capital Markets - Singapore #28481 | SunGard | SG-Singapore-71 Robinson Road

Technical Project Manager (Unix or Linux), Capital Markets - Singapore

Job ID #: 28481	Location: SG-Singapore-71 Robinson Road
Functional Area: Information Technology	Department: Operations - Professional Services
Position Type: Full-Time Regular	Education Desired: Any
Relocation Provided: Negotiable
Travel Percentage: 5

Position Description Job Overview: Project Manager in the PS team will be in charge of implementing a high quality, high availability and scalable solution for our customers. But its role also spans over process solution design, engineering studies, tailor-made solution specification and problem management. • Manage the project. Follow-up progress with the various teams involved. Report project status regularly internally and to Client. • Formalize functional need of the Customer. Translate it into a technical solution. Recommend customization based on functional study. • Execute product installation and configuration based on established best practices and templates. Validate installation. • Consistently improve best practices and templates. Maintain knowledge about products versions usability. • Prepare procedure to help Service Desk or other team members execute common change requests effectively. • Join in problem management when our expertise is required to help solve a high profile problem. • Evaluate the latest version of product or feature of product, to assess interest for local users. Organize demo to staff or pre-sales so that they are aware of the latest feature. • Participate in building pre-sales demo as well as shared testing environments • Train operational teams in order to improve effectiveness in issue resolution, explain new systems to support teams. • Provide feedback on test scripts prepared and executed by QA team. • Provide leads whenever the client contact has needs that could be answered by our products or services. Position Requirements Essential Experience Required; • At least 3-4 years experience for a Software vendor company or financial business company • Implementation, support or development position Desirable Experience Required; • Knowledge or experience of Financial software • Project Management Qualifications: • Any qualification in relation to the position can be a plus Essential Skills Required; • Client facing • Good knowledge of Unix or Linux • Troubleshooting • English language Desirable Skills Required; • Software deployment • Good communication and synthesis skills • Knowledge in network (TCP/IP, Cisco) • Knowledge of Database (Oracle/ Sybase) Trading and Risk

Recruitment at SunGard Financial Systems works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. SunGard does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

SunGard is an Equal Opportunity employer - with a real commitment to managing diversity and ensuring equality of opportunity for all. Please note all offers are contingent on successfully passing the pre-employment checks. These may include: Previous Employment Highest Education Directorships Career Gap Analysis Extended Blacklists Credit Check Basic Criminal This list is not exhaustive. As part of the selection process this role may require an assessment to determine suitability. http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_sungard/external/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=62668&localeCode=en-us

Senior Database Administrator | AppNexus Inc. | New York, United States

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Senior Database Administrator | AppNexus Inc. | New York, United States

Senior Database Administrator (New York) Technical Operations | New York, United States

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Team Description:
The Technical Operations team is distributed across the globe and handles a wide variety of responsibilities, from providing tech support to architecting long-range build-out and day-to-day operations at our six global data centers. We have well over 7,000 servers, which process over a million of ad serving requests per second (billions per day). We are an all Linux shop (all production operations run on Linux), with mostly Mac laptops.We’re in search of troubleshooters and those who love to tinker and innovate with technology.

Role description:
The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for participating in building, operating, and maintaining a heterogeneous datastore environment in the Technical Operations group. The data environment consists primarily of Hadoop, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vertica and Citrusleaf’s clustered low latency key-value data store and is constantly growing.
Responsibilities:

• Help keep the database and data systems infrastructure running smoothly
• Work with Data Engineering team to help design and implement next iteration of scaling (and the next, and the next, ...)
• Tune and optimize systems, processes, queries, databases to handle constantly increasing data flows
• Participate in prototyping and proof of concept system development and benchmarking
• Install patches and do upgrades as required
• Write and perform DML and DDL as required
• Manage storage restructuring as required
• Participate in on-call rotation responding to alerts and systems issues
• Audit various databases to ensure data integrity
• Deal with the usual database situations (replication, stale locks, queries run amok, tables that need to be indexed but are not, managing constraints)

Requirements:
At least one of the following two, with a strong desire and capability to learn and gain expertise in both:  

1. Extensive DBA experience with a majority of the following:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Columnar databases (Vertica)
• Key-value Store/NoSQL

2. Hadoop use and administration experience with the majority of the following:

• HDFS
• HBase
• Hive, Pig, Sqoop
• 2+ years of hands on Unix/Linux system administration
• Proficiency with cron, syslog, and other Unix system interfaces/utilities
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good organizational skills
• High professional standards and desire to continue to develops skills and growth professionally
• Strong commitment and drive to deliver high quality service to all customers, regardless of whether they are internal or external

  DESIRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience with Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Experience with system administration automation software such as Chef, cfengine, or Puppet (Puppet preferred)
• Perl and/or Python programming experience
• Regular expression fluency
• Substantial experience with networking from a systems standpoint to include but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, ARP, NTP, SMTP, HTTP
• Experience with Nagios or similar monitoring tools
• Experience with data collection/graphing tools like Cacti, Ganglia, and Graphite
• Experience using a Mac
• Experience with tcpdump, ethereal, and other packet capture and analysis tools
• Bachelor Degree in CS or MIS, or equivalent experience desirable

What we look for:

• You want to be part of an organization with a transparent and agile environment where you can communicate freely and openly.
• You look for novel and creative solutions to complex problems.
• You are an independent thinker who is self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.
• You are passionate about and thrive in a culture of learning and teaching – you are both open minded to others’ opinions and take opportunities to help and teach colleagues.

What's in it for you:

• Industry-changing work – build bold solutions to some of today’s most exciting technical challenges.
• Significant impact from your very first day thanks to our rapidly growing scale and agile engineering teams.
• Competitive benefits package, with plan options to design the coverage to fit your life — highly subsidized health, dental and vision insurance coverage from day one, fully vested employer-matched 401(k), company-seeded health savings accounts, back-up childcare, pet insurance, and much more.
• Global presence – AppNexus has offices around the world: Manhattan, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, London, Paris, Hamburg, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore. Engineers are primarily based in Manhattan and Portland.
• Regular access to industry events - AppNexus hosts many technical meet-ups and speakers on site.
• We are a technology company at heart. Our founders can hold their own in architecture discussions with the team. Occasionally, our CEO even checks-in bug fixes to the ad server codebase.

The other perks:

• Great Technology: Any computer of your choosing. Most of our team develop using retina displayed MacBook Pros, with multiple monitors for additional screen real estate.
• Free Food: Every office has fully-stocked kitchens featuring bagels each morning, as well as healthy and tasty snacks, drinks, and coffee throughout the day. Family Lunch Fridays – AppNexus provides free lunch for the company every Friday.
• Career Development: AppNexus offers a variety of internally-developed learning sessions, customized workshops, and robust professional development programs to help you strengthen your potential, develop new skills, grow your career and make greatness happen at AppNexus. 
• An Active Development Community: Participate in company sponsored Hackathons, Innovation days and events.
• Speak, Publish, and Patent: Your groundbreaking work will help enhance the engineering brand at an emerging powerhouse technology company.

 http://appnexus.com/open-positions?jvi=oOt7Yfw6

AWS Solutions Engineer | Mozilla corporation | San Francisco, CA, United States

AWS Solutions Engineer | Mozilla corporation | San Francisco, CA, United States

AWS Solutions Engineer

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IT

Locations:

San Francisco, CA, United States

Do know your way around Linux and application deployment strategies better than your own house? Is it your mission to help deliver the best user experience possible for the most widely-used open source applications in the world??

Mozilla’s Information Technology (IT) team is looking for an Amazon Web Services solutions architect. You'll need solid Linux/UNIX skills and experience with standard web application stacks (LAMP, LAMPy, Django, etc). You'll also need to be able program with a strong grasp of deployment challenges. You'll be expected to provide hands-on technical engineering of our ever-growing server and application environments across multiple global data centers, and AWS. Most importantly, you'll be an integral part of the team designing AWS infrastructure responsible for delivering Mozilla’s back-end services to both internal and external-facing customers.?

Responsibilities:
•    Design scalable AWS solutions that are resilient, secure, and cost effective.
•    Govern AWS usage, specifically around initial setup and architecture.
•    Work with application developers to assist in porting their applications to AWS.
•    Build resource plans to best optimize AWS usage and billing.
•    Routinely monitor AWS usage and make recommendations around how best to utilize AWS services and features.
•    Be a 2nd-tier escalation point for Mozilla operations engineers.
•    Collaboration with QA, Security, and Engineering as necessary.?

Skills/Experience Required:
•    In-depth knowledge and experience of AWS features, including EC2, S3, ELBs, VPCs, CloudFormation and IAM.
•    Experience & passion supporting a production infrastructure.
•    Solid scripting knowledge in Python and Bash.
•    Automation and configuration management experience; preferably with Puppet.
•    Impeccable documentation skills.
•    Lifecycle management experience, with ITIL familiarity a big plus.
•    Knowledge of common open source software, including Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP.
•    Understanding of common infrastructure daemons such as BIND, DHCPD, Postfix, etc.
•    Embrace guidance from more senior team members
•    ~2 years experience administrating servers in a lights-out data center infrastructure?

Education
•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, or equivalent plus experience.


http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/o8jjZfwt

Test Automation Engineer #JREQ017605 | Thomson Reuters | London, GB

Test Automation Engineer #JREQ017605 | Thomson Reuters | London, GB


Test Automation Engineer Job
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Date: Jul 3, 2014

Location: London, GB
Title:Test Automation Engineer
ID:JREQ017605

Description

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Position Overview:
This position will fulfill the role of Test Automation engineer in Eikon Real Time Delivery (RTD) QA team. RTD system provides real-time data for Eikon application on desktop and mobile platform. The data will be available in both streaming and snapshot mode. Candidate is expected to mainly focus on test automation, responsible for producing automated test solutions for both functional and non-functional testing, and will work with development team, product manager and others related QA teams. This opportunity is appropriate for an experience automation engineer with good knowledge of Linux, UNIX and windows system with good understanding of computer networking.

Essential Responsibilities:
1. Developing test strategy both for individual projects and across the team.
2. Undertaking all forms of functional and non-functional testing.
3. Ownership of testing for individual projects including.
4. Creating test plans creating test cases, both manual and automated.
5. Running test-cases for projects and product regression testing.
6. Test coverage and status reporting.
7. Test Summary reports for final QA sign off.
8. Good understanding of agile development and testing.
9. Utilize development skills, data manipulation skills and scripting skills to engineer technical, repeatable tests.
10. Report on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
- Minimum of 2 to 3 years in automation testing
- RFA experience
- Some development work
- Experience in implementing automation testing for Linux/Unix based application
- Experience of using scripting language e.g. TCL/TK, Shell Scripts, Perl etc.
- Energetic and able to work in dynamic environments
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Fluency in both written and spoken English
- Experience using Agile/Scrum methodology
- Basic financial knowledge.

Education / Certifications Required:
- ISEB or ISTQB Foundation Certificate in software

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: London, GB
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Organization: F&R UPG Pricing & Text Analytics
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
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Senior Software Engineer (Media) #JREQ010562 | Thomson Reuters | Beijing, CN

Senior Software Engineer (Media) #JREQ010562 | Thomson Reuters | Beijing, CN


Senior Software Engineer (Media) Job
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Date: Jul 6, 2014

Location: Beijing, CN
Title:Senior Software Engineer (Media)
ID:JREQ010562

Description

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.This is a software development position. The successful candidate will be a part of the team building the next generation of rich media content management, delivery, and commerce platform for reuters.com. The job requires a strong computer science background, ability to work with minimal supervision, strong software development discipline, ability to learn and apply new technologies, and ability to work on a team.Role and Responsibilities:
- Software Development.
- Communicating with local and foreign stake holders and business.
- Production problem resolution.

Qualifications

Required skills or knowledge:
- Expert knowledge/Experience with Java and J2EE
- Experience with SQL and relational databases
- Expereince with Apache or other HTTP servers
- Expereince with Tomcat or other J2EE containers
- Experience with Linux/Shell script
- Good Knowledge of HTTP, JavaScript/AJAX, XML and XHTML
- Experience with a versioning system (e.g., CVS/SVN/Git)
- Both good written and spoken English are requiredDesired skills or knowledge:
- Good Knowledge of Linux Kernal is a big plus
- Good Knowledge of HTML/HTML5/CSS and Web page design is a big plus.
- Experience with functional programming language is a big plus (e.g., Python, Clojure, Scala, Erlang)
- Experience with Agile development is a big plus.
- Experience with distributed computing, big data processing and NoSQL databases is a plus
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

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Primary Location: Beijing, CN
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Organization: News Agency
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
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Staff Network Engineer | Mozilla corporation | Mountain View or San Francisco, CA, United States

Staff Network Engineer | Mozilla corporation | Mountain View or San Francisco, CA, United States

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Locations:

Mountain View or San Francisco, CA, United States

**Position Location: San Francisco or Mountain View, CA office

Mozilla IT is looking for a Network Engineer to be part of Network Operations team responsible for Mozilla’s global network of Mozilla Spaces (aka offices), data centers, public clouds, and POPs.

If you are no stranger to TCP/IP, switches, routers, VPN, MPLS, wireless, VOIP and linux machines and have worked in a rapid development environment, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:
    *    Administer switches, routers, firewalls, wireless controllers, and VPNs
    *    Design office/data center interconnectivity and internal/external routing protocols.
    *    Responsible for end-to-end network configuration, validation, and testing.
    *    Assist with telephony systems, SIP trunking, and VOIP.
    *    Create net flows and visual/topology diagrams.
    *    Proficient linux sysadmin skills and scripting languages.
    *    Build monitoring tools to ensure system availability, resource utilization and capacity planning
    *    Conduct wireless assessments and triage.
    *    When necessary, perform packet captures and sniffing, data collection.
    *    Available for after-hours support, on-call, and perform maintenance.

Required Skills:
    *    Bachelors degree preferred
    *    5-7 years of network administration experience supporting HQ/branch offices, multiple data centers, and a global remote workforce
    *    Industry certifications, preferably JNC** level certifications, Service Provider and Enterprise routing and switching. Substitute for Cisco equivalent.
    *    Exceptional knowledge of Spanning Tree, OSPF, RIP, BGP, IEEE 802.1(x) standards, IPSEC, Juniper router/switch/WLAN, ACL's IPS, IDS, NAC, VPNs, MPLS, VPLS, load balancers, SIP, VOIP.
    *    Strong knowledge of Linux distributions (preferably RHEL).
    *    Impeccable communication skills and customer focus.
    *    Work independently, excellent communication to technical and non-technical audiences, collaborates effectively within a team setting, sets proper timeframes and delivery.
    *    Proficient issue/trend analysis, proactive problem avoidance, root cause analysis, performance and overall quality improvement and cost-savings.

Additional Skills Strongly Desired:
    *    Experience with cloud platforms - particularly Amazon Web Services
    *    Experience with Asterisk phone systems.
    *    Experience with both open-source and 3rd party monitoring tools, scripting (python, javascript, bash), and web technologies


http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oXlgYfwg

Platform Delivery Engineer #2013-4425 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

Platform Delivery Engineer #2013-4425 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

2013-4425

Posting Job Title 

Platform Delivery Engineer

Job Location 

US-IL-Chicago

Category 

Technology

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Overview:

As a Platform Delivery Engineer, the ideal candidate will have experience designing, building and supporting highly-available hosting environments for large scale web sites within a virtual private cloud infrastructure.  You will collaborate with teams across OWW to plan, coordinate and carryout tasks and projects for our various environments.  Your focus will be on proactive system administration, orchestration, and detection of issues and vulnerabilities.  We value dedicated, enthusiastic, and energetic teammates who are serious about their careers and who value a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Be consistently proactive about identifying risks, vulnerabilities, and issues in our environments which you then collaboratively drive to mitigation
• Act as Unix/Linux virtual system administrator
• Use application monitoring tools for monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of network, application and server issues within the virtual cloud.
• Plan and execute deployment of new capacity and manage various deployments of virtual cluster hosts.
• Perform cluster and site performance analysis
• Act as 3rd or 4th level support for incidents escalated from our Service Operations Center and Site Reliability Engineering.
• Use change management tools and processes for environment configuration management and communication
• Create infrastructure documentation as well as Standard Operating Procedures which will be used by support teams 
• Automate repetitive tasks to eliminate manual work where possible
• Monitor application logs for errors and help in problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Ensure security of our environments by adhering to security guidelines and requirements; as well as working directly with OWW’s security team to proactively identify and manage security risks
• Act as technical consult and support for various projects throughout the organization

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, relevant field, or equivalent field experience.
• Minimum of 5 years experience as a systems administrator and operations engineer in a Unix/Linux environment
• Minimum 2 years solid experience with virtualization technologies (private cloud preferred)
• Solid experience with Unix/Linux, Tomcat, Apache, FTP, TCP/IP, and SSH
• Experience with Software Configuration Management (CVS, AccuRev, Git, or similar)
• Experience with Oracle and SQL (data manipulation and conversion, import, and export)
• Proven problem solver
• Proven ability / experience with virtualization platforms and clustering( CloudStack, Open Stack, VMWare, KVM, etc)
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Bugzilla, Jira and Wiki
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly
• Ability to use individual judgment quickly prioritize and manage multiple assignments simultaneously based on goals of the organization
• Excellent attention to detail
• Responsive and proactive troubleshooter
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Ability to work well as a team player and collaborate with others to identify and execute optimal outcomes
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals, making presentations to customers or management, and working closely with a wide range of individuals

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Lead Linux Systems Administrator #1400091 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Lead Linux Systems Administrator #1400091 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Lead Linux Systems Administrator

IT - Network Operations

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced team lead to head a group of administrators, all with the goal of supporting, maintaining, and optimizing our worldwide infrastructure. The candidate should be a dedicated problem solver who can multi-task and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and demanding environment. This candidate should also be very well organized and have excellent team management skills.

Responsibilities

• Receive general instructions from operations management.
• Manage a team of administrators (scheduling, task management, mentoring, etc.).
• Supervise workflow operations to ensure efficient operation; devise and implement corrective action as required.
• Oversee production change management requests and scheduling.
• Assist in the development and implementation of policy and process improvements across a global organization.
• Schedule resources to support 24 / 7 / 365 operations.
• Measure and report service availability and scheduled downtime metrics to management.
• Share in off-hour / on-call duties.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years’  systems or network administration experience
• Solid understanding of physical and network security
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Comfort communicating with all levels of management
• Logical and process-oriented problem solving skills
• Able to manage multiple projects and tasks
• Able to lead and mentor a team
• Excellent customer service skills
• Passion for gaming

Pluses

• Previous information technology (IT) supervisory or management experience
• Degree in computer science or related field
• Project management experience
• Six Sigma training or certification
• Familiar with ITIL, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, ISO 12207 standards
• Data backup and recovery and business continuity planning experience

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games you are currently playing

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id=1400091

Senior Systems Administrator #1400017 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Systems Administrator #1400017  | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Systems Administrator

IT - Information Systems

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a senior systems administrator to join the internal information systems team.  You will be charged with overseeing our systems infrastructure as well as providing tier 3 support for operational issues.  The ideal candidate is someone with expertise designing, deploying, and managing medium to large Linux environments.

 

What's the Systems Team like?

We’re a close-knit group of talented IT professionals. We work in the coolest environment and have access to the best IT technology.  We are passionate about all games and products produced by Blizzard.  We eat and drink together and play SC II, DIII and WoW together. Our main hours of operational coverage are from 8AM – 7PM.  Unless you are on-call, a normal shift is eight hours. Training opportunities are made available to learn and grow, and you will learn new skills on the job. Personal growth and embracing your inner geek are also encouraged.

 

Responsibilities

• Support the core backend / internal-facing IT infrastructure which supports the StarCraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft development teams.
• Work with global IT teams to assist in supporting global infrastructure.
• Follow incident, problem, crisis and change management processes.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical problems relating to systems infrastructure.
• Respond to phone calls, email, and personnel technical support requests in a timely manner.
• Participate in an on-call schedule and available 24 / 7, as needed.
• Document, track, and communicate solutions to problems.

Requirements

• Hands-on expertise with Linux, including system installation / configuration, file system concepts, resource monitoring, user administration, Active Directory integration, package management, and process control / management
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere or equivalent virtualization technology
• Advanced knowledge of networking principles and applications / technologies (e.g., TCP / UDP protocols, DNS, DHCP, GPO services)
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise server-class hardware
• Advanced knowledge of scripting/programming in any administrative language (Bash, Perl, Powershell, Python, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to train users on topics, provide presentations to an internal audience, write documentation, and interact positively with and receive direction from upper management
• Highly motivated and self-driven, capable of working with little instruction to resolve demanding tasks, as well as work with internal teams
• Able (and willing) to lift a minimum of 70 lbs.

Pluses

• A degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience with SVN, GIT, or other source code repositories
• Experience with Atlassian Products (Confluence, Jira, Fisheye, etc…)
• RHCE Certifications or equivalent Linux Certifications
• CCNA/CCNP Certifications
• Intermediate knowledge of SAN and NAS principles, experience deploying and maintaining various storage solutions
• Experience with enterprise backup / restore procedures
• Experience working with build server farms
• Database administration experience (MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Enterprise configuration management solutions (SCCM or similar)
• ITIL framework and processes
• A passion for games and film

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games you are currently playing

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id=1400017