Our client is looking for a talented systems administrator with hands-on experience in maintaining a world-class, always-on service that currently handles thousands of transactions per day and will scale an order of magnitude higher than that across a variety of technology platforms and physical facilities. Overview: This position will report to the Director of IT Operations. General responsibility includes maintaining all systems at remote data center and production facility. This includes Solaris Red Hat, Linux and Windows 2000 environments. Responsibilities will range from maintenace and trouble shooting to development and architecture. The above responsibilities require constant attention and may, and often do, fall outside of the normal 9 to 5 workday. It is expected that when problems arise the Systems Administrator will make himself available until problems are resolved and solutions put in place with little regard for outside commitments. This may entail visiting the remote data center in New York City at night, on weekends and during holidays in order to fix problems.
All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. All applicants applying for Canadian job openings must be authorized to work in Canada. Experience: ? Minimum 4-6 years related IT work experience. ? Minimum of two (2) years of solid UNIX system administration experience in an enterprise environment. ? Solid experience with Red Hat Linux and Solaris 8 in an enterprise environment. ? Solid hardware skills with Sparc and X86 platforms. ? Unix shell scripting skills (sh, bash) ? Solid understanding of system and network security. ? Server set up and client experience with mySQL. ? Experience with relational data base (Oracle, Sybase, or DB2). ? Programming/scripting skills in many of the following environments: Perl, Python, PHP ? Experience with some or all of the following network services: sendmail, DNS, BIND, DHCP, SNMP and NFS. ? Java/Servlet (Tomcat) experiences a plus. Other Qualifications: ? Excellent written and oral communications skills with demonstrated commitment to producing high quality documentation. ? Strong time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks and meet all schedules. ? Must have car. ? Must live within 1 hour of Valhalla (White Plains), New York. Please forward a copy of your resume to for consideration. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here