SingleHop is a leading global provider of hosted IT infrastructure and cloud computing. We are pioneering the global cloud IaaS movement by enabling SMBs and service providers in the design, deployment, and management of a wide range of IT solutions.
Job Description
Our Senior System Administrators are the end-line of support for all issues within the company. They are responsible for complex client issues, setups, internal servers, securing servers as well as maintaining the overall satisfaction of our clients by ensuring that issues are handled to the level of quality that is expected of SingleHop.
Senior System Administrators should be well versed in trending technologies, past technologies and assisting clients with implementing changes on their setups to grow with increased traffic. Some examples would be high availability clustering, SQL replication, message queuing systems and fringe technologies such as Cassandra. A Senior System Administrator needs to be well versed in diagnosing complex issues to resolve them with as minimal downtime as possible. They are also responsible for assisting Team Leaders in training them on complex tasks, assisting the rest of the team in engineering solutions for complex requirements and assisting with RFQ/RFH with the sales department.
Qualified candidates will be responsible for the following:
- Building and configuring complex solutions supporting high availability which are also scalable
- Diagnosing, optimizing and correcting SQL replication as well as servers
- Maintaining and deploying load balancing in One-arm, Two-arm and DSR setups
- Managing shared and replicated storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DFS)
- Assist development team in optimizing, upgrading and correcting internal server issues
- Experience with mitigating Denial of Service attacks, Brute-forcing attempts as well as securing servers/networks to mitigate possibility
- Assist with the setup and deployment of PCI/HIPPA compilant solutions
- Monitoring hardware and software remotely, providing alerts as necessary
- On-Call support for issues off-hour that Team Leaders are unable to resolve *Assisting development team with scripting to automate server-related tasks i.e BASH, Perl, PowerShell
Qualified candidates should have:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience with Linux
- Leadership experience
- Automation experience utilizing common languages
- Experience fine-tuning firewalls such as iptables and/or Cisco ASA
- Strong knowledge of a linux subsystem
- Utilizing strace/gdb to diagnose issues
- Strong understanding of configuring and optimizing various technologies utilizing various analysis tools
- Isolating and identifying reasons for misbehaving setups
- Experience utilizing bug trackers and patching
- File system concepts (inode, paging, swapping, clustering, logical partitions, etc)
- Experience with virtualization technologies (kvm,xen,hyper-v)
- Strong experience with web hosting control panels (CPanel/Plesk)
- Strong experience with most common protocols/daemons HTTP, FTP, DNS, SMTP, etc.
- Experience with high availability environments (Hardware/software load balancing, SQL replication, failover, DRBD, heartbeat etc)
- Ability to isolate and correct complex issues with minimal downtime. You must be able to diagnose and correct extremely complex issues with minimal reliance on others
- Good communication skills as well as the ability to assist and lead with Team Leaders
- Must be comfortable in self-managed and team tasks
- Windows experience is always a plus
Qualified candidates are not required but preferred to have experience in the following:
- Knowledge of web acceleration technologies such as nginx, lighttpd, varnish and php caching engines
- Advance shell scripting, we utilize BASH/Perl/Powershell to automate various tasks to reduce necessity of intervention
- Windows server management
- Windows clustering
- Networking experience
Benefits Overview
- BCBS Medical (PPO, HSA or HMO)
- Dental (PPO or HMO)
- Vision
- Basic Life Insurance (Supplemental Life Insurance Available)
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) & Profit Sharing Plans
- Generous Paid Time Off Policy
- Paid Parental Leave
- Transportation/Parking Spending AccoutnAssistance
- Flexible Spending Account (Medical & Dependent Care)
Fun Perks
- Laid Back Dress Code & Environment
- Free Snacks and Beverages
- Community Events - Help Us Give Back!
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