Direct Client Hire
Under limited supervision, the Senior Email Administrator administers all aspects of an advanced, distributed computer system supporting an important functional area of operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Plans and coordinates system utilization, and performs growth analysis and capacity planning.
Performs system and application analysis/design and programming to produce a variety of innovative solutions to complex problems.
Charged with installing, supporting, and maintaining servers and other computer systems.
Assists with planning for and responding to service outages and other problems.
Able to take on a leadership role in project management for systems-related projects.
Must be able quickly and correctly diagnose problems with computer systems and introduce the best way to fix the problem.
Proficient in scripting or light programming
Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence on purchasing process.
May supervise or train other System Administrators
Able to support a 24x7 staffing model which includes weekends and Holidays.
Other duties as assigned.
Experience: Education, Experience and Skills:
. Bachelor of Computer Science preferred, minimum two years of college or equivalent post-high school education or experience
. 5+ years System Administration experience
. Experience with a large mail system utilizing software such as qmail, postfix, sendmail or Cyrus. Zimbra experience a plus.
. RHCE, LPI, CCNA, MySQL and other related certifications a plus
. Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management.
. Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
. Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.
. Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; can configure NFS, key-based ssh; can use nslookup or dig to check information in DNS; understands basic routing concepts.
. Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions).
. Generally knows several programming languages used for scripting or automation of routine tasks. (bash, Perl, PHP).
. Specific experience with Solaris, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, RT, and postfix a plus.
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