A little background: 23-year old guy, I have been a daily user of Linux the last 1.5 year or so. I have worked in helpdesk (Windows) for a little over two years, part-time while I studied. However, my boss offered me another part-time job in our digital development department. So I'm part-time helpdesk and part-time linux-guy (Works out at around 37 hours a week).
So I decided to quit studying for a while and took him up on that offer. In the beginning I helped configuring our Drupal sites, helped set up our new and cheaper backup solution etc. I was pretty much all over the place. We agreed that I would need to specialize more in Linux, because I got offered the job because I have Linux experience.
I got a free pass to build my own in-house server, which I did, we're use for cron, taking automated snapshots of our EC2 server and some other stuff.
We're also hosting quite a few conferences, the conference-websites are on different servers and we agreed it would be a great idea to put them all on a single server. So we brought an Amazon EC2 instance, I configured it with apache, MySQL and Drupal multi-site. I'm still working the last quirks out, before we're moving all the sites. But we should be up and running next week.
The next step would be to implement monitoring on our in-house server and Amazon instance, so I can take care of patch management and the like.
I work at a news-media, we write about engineering and IT-related news - we both have a newspaper and an online-site. My boss is a cool guy, listen to my ideas and is willing to implement new things, if I think it would be beneficial for our company.
So do you guys have an ideas on what I could implement, which would help the company and make my CV more awesome, if I'm striving for a position in the Linux system administrator field (junior position)?
Ask away, I probably forgot quite a few things.
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