System Administrator

at BlueOptima

Posted by Deepthi Ravindran

"Who are we? \n\nBlueOptima provides industry leading objective metrics in software development using it’s proprietary Coding Effort Analytics that enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster, and at lower cost. Founded in 2007, BlueOptima is a profitable, independent, high growth software vendor commercialising technology initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University. We are headquartered in London with offices in New York, Bangalore, and Gurgaon.\n\nBlueOptima’s technology is deployed with global enterprises driving value from their software development activities For example, we work with seven of the world’s top ten Universal Banks (by revenue), three of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies (by revenue, excl. China). Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 13 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment.\n\nBlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer.\n\nWho are we looking for? \n\nOur groundbreaking product requires exceptional environment setup. We are seeking a highly skilled and talented engineer to maintain and improve the environment.\n\nWe are hiring for a Systems Administrator deep experience in building and managing scalable linux environment hosted on AWS. With knack for automating simples of tasks and ability to simplify most complex of problems, we are looking for a Systems Administrator to manage and maintain our environment and maintain its security posture. An individual with great attention to details, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. \n\nWhat does the role involve? \n\nAs an experienced Systems Administrator, you'll use cutting edge tools like Terraform, Puppet and Ansible to build, manage and maintain the environment. Be responsible for IT & Network security of the setup and work closely with the Engineering teams to complement on Application deployment and performance by ensuring a stable, reliable and high availability environment. Be incharge of disaster management and recovery plan, ensuring 99.99% availability of service.\n\nResponsibilities include:\n\nManage AWS services, covering (but not limited to) the following:\n\nec2 instances and network configurations\n\nIAM policies\n\nSecurity perimeter on ec2, s3 and VPC.\n\nDesign, install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL database clusters. \n\nWillingness to work non-core hours such as weekends to support deployments and configuration changes that might impact our services.\n\nUsing tools like Puppet and Terraform for application deployment and management.\n\nMaintaining monitoring tools, e.g. Cacti.\n\nConfiguring and Maintaining ELK server for log aggregation and alerting.\n\nMaintaining VPN and NIDS services running in VPC.\n\n\nEssential Skills / Experience Required:\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\nMinimum 4+ years experience in scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc.\n\nMinimum 2+ years experience in managing environment AWS.\n\nExperience with using automation tools like Puppet for Systems management.\n\nExperience with managing user access and credentials centrally through directory service or similar.\n\nGood understanding of networking, packet capturing and analysis\n\nUnderstanding of Security, both Systems and Networks\n\nAbility to troubleshoot problems remotely and VPN/network connectivity issues from different OS environments.\n\nExcellent oral and written communication skills.\n\n\nDesirable Skills / Experience:\n\nExperience with using automation tools like Terraform for managing AWS Configuration.\n\nExperience with Compliance.\n\nExperience with System Hardening and Vulnerability Analysis.\n\nExperience with ELK or Splunk, with strong understanding of both structured and unstructured data and log analysis\n\n\nWhy work for us?\n\nCompetitive remuneration\n\nStimulating challenges that fully use your skills.\n\nInvent the wheel: Work on real-world technical problems where cannot simply be found on the internet\n\nWorking alongside other passionate, talented engineers\n\nHardware of your choice (MacBook or Dell XPS)\n\nOur fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression"

"Roles & Responsibilities\n\nParticipate in 12×7 shifts working with a global team in follow the sun model. ( No Graveyard or Night Shift)\nProvide remote infrastructure support for our SaaS, PaaS, IaaS products across globally distributed data centres\nAutomate OS and application deployments using tools such as WDS, Cobbler and Puppet\nConduct regular patch management and system maintenance to ensure the health of platforms/servers\nSet up health checks for systems & applications in monitoring tools like Zabbix, Nagios, SolarWinds etc\nTroubleshoot and fix issues meeting SLA’s and operational standards\nManage incidents and escalations as per policies/procedures to meet incident management and uptime SLAs\nLiaise with engineering teams for RCA’s, permanent resolutions on issues using tickets and chat conference rooms\nIdentify repetitive tasks and automate using Bash / Ruby / Perl\nContribute to operations handbook\nInvestigate and assess alerts for hardware and schedule replacement or tests\nInitiate emergency maintenance as needed for failed/failing hardware (drives, RAID controllers, power supplies, etc)\nProvide guidance to L1 monitoring regarding hardware status/health, complicated server health analysis\nEnsure smooth hand-offs between shifts"

"Azure/AWS based Infrastructure Lead - Cloud & DevOps setup, Perf tuning, Packet Analysis, Security Analysis,\n\nFirewall, Load Balancer - F5, DMZ Understanding, Public/Private Cloud Infra Setup, Webservice API GW\n Minimum B.Tech. degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline\n\no 10+ years of experience of infrastructure setup & trouble shooting with 3+ working as a Technical Lead/Architect"

"Description\n\nLinux Engineer would be responsible for provisioning, server hardening, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure. He would be contributing to the technical research and development to drive innovation within the infrastructure team.\n\nRoles & Responsibilities:\n\nBuild and operate enterprise systems, utilizing best practices for system deployment and design to include but not limited to the following system areas:\nServer hardware and operating systems\nVirtualization\nStorage\nAWS, Azure, and other virtualization technologies\nSecurity tools and components\nNetwork and system automation\nDay to day management of Linux servers, including support and server hardening as per the guidelines\nInstall new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.\nIdentification of automation opportunities within network infrastructure.\nPerform system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.\nApply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.\nPrimary Skills:\n\nAn excellent understanding of Linux\nPrevious experience with Web Services (eg. Nginx, Apache)\nStrong database skills (eg. Couchbase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra)\nPrevious experience with System Services (eg. NTP, DNS)\nScripting abilities (eg. Bash, Python, PHP, etc)\nBackground in Networking (eg. Juniper, Cisco)\nUnderstanding of Voice Technologies (eg. WebRTC, SIP)\nExperience range:\n\n3+ years’ experience as a System Administrator\nEducational Qualification\n\nBachelor's Degree in an IT-related discipline\nRelevant certifications preferred"

"About BETSOL: \nBETSOL is a US based IT company based out of Denver, Colorado. The India operations were started in late 2012 with Bangalore as its headquarters. We do custom software development, enterprise data architecture, network engineering and operations, quality assurance and technical support.\nOver the years we've built a solid team of accomplished professionals who bring varying backgrounds and skills to expand the creative potential of the company. This significantly contributes to the quality and reliability of our services. Our specializations and experience ensure that that we consistently deliver superior services and products to our customers."

"Job Description for Linux Server Administrator :-\n\n\n1. Hands of experience in different Servers Like- Ubuntu, Redhat ,Centos and Debian .\n\n2. Hands of experience in advance level of Linux Server Administration and support.\n\n3. Hands of experience in LAMP Server Configuration.\n\n4. Hands of experience in Mysql DBA part.\n\n5. Should have basic knowledge in mongodb administration part.\n\n6. Should have knowledge in bash scripting.\n\n7. Hands of experience in data redundancy and disk management.\n\n8. Hands of experience in Server security handling for Linux Servers.\n\n9. Hands of experience in Cloud Server and Services Like- AWS.\n\n10. Hands of experience in Webservers like - NGINX and Apache.\n\n11. Hands of experience in File Servers like- NFS,Samba.\n\n12. Hands of experience in DNS,NameServer configuration."

"Job Description:\n\n1. Good hands on experience on Red hat Enterprise LinuxV5/6/7 System administration and trouble shooting. \n2. NIS, NFS and SAMBA administration \n3. LDAP administration \n4. Troubleshooting on issues belongs to virtual servers \n5. RAID and LVM Management \n6. Cluster troubleshooting \n7. DNS server Administration \n8. Automation Tool & Scripting knowledge \n9. Hands on experience in physical to virtual server migration \n10. Plan/Schedule/coordinate and implement critical changes \n11. Strong knowledge for VPN Tunnel \n12. Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with a diverse user community in quick-response situations and to coordinate/collaborate with team members.\n\n· \n\n· Roles and Responsibilities:\n\n• Strong understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) \n• Certified AWS Solution Architect will be an added advantage \n• Strong understanding of Chef / Puppet / Fabric / Ansible / Jenkins / Bamboo \n• Scripting skills are must to have. Preferred scripting languages are Ruby / Python. \n• Excellent Linux administration skills with knowledge of storage services SAN / NAS etc \n• Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application servers, & load balancers \n• In-depth understanding of Load balancers and Firewall / VPN configuration. \n• Exposure to infrastructure Monitoring Tools like Nagios. Cacti, Zabbix etc \n• Exposure to log management and log analysis tools like Splunk. \n• Understanding RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL \n• Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) \n• Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems \n• Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems \n• Experience with CDN, and performance concepts \n• Network experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP & OSI Network \n• Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON \n• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle \n• Work experience with information and application security including public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, & X.509 certificates \n• Exposure of working in infrastructure support environment with responding to tickets using a ticket management tool. \n• Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills."

"About Us: \n\nCricBattle is the Only Draft Based and Salary Cap Fantasy Cricket and Football Platform in the World. With there being such a passion for both of these sports out there globally, we want to ensure our users enjoy and socialize on the platform we are providing, for which we provide the best customer service experience. \n\nIf you're crazy about sports, and want to put your childhood dream of working in a sports related profession, this is your chance! We have always believed in living in dreamland, and what's better than working while watch the match you don't want to miss or interact with cricketers, along with all your co-workers!!\n\n\nYou will be the key backbone on our unique fantasy platform. You will be mainly dealing with backend admin settings. You will also be responsible for analysis and design techniques to solve business problems using information technology. You will also serve as change agent who identify the organizational improvements needed, design systems to implement those changes, and train and motivate others to use the product. You will have an opportunity to wear multiple hats of system admin, database admin, software tester, client interaction, customer support etc. The role will move up to heading future system administrator, support teams in 2-3 years.\n\nExperience Must :\n· Minimum 2 years of experience with Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.\n· Ability to provide backend admin support and to be responsible for maintaining system quality.\n· Ability to review of software requirements, Preparation of test case and Execution of tests.\n· Ability to Reporting of defects and Preparation of test reports.\n· Knowledge of functional automation testing using tools like QTP, RFT, Load Runner and Selenium will be preferred.\n· Experience Web application testing to different browsing platforms (Web browsers, Mobile browsers).\n· Experience Mobile Apps testing to different platforms (Android, IPhone, windows) \n\nAdditional Skillset Preferred:\n-> Ability to communicate with clients and maintaining customer relations .\n-> Providing customer support voice/non-voice.\n-> Ability to prepare technical document, User guides etc. \n\nPlease forward your resume to hr@cricbattle.com"

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"We operate a 500 seater Telesales centre for our business that receives over 10000 calls every day.Looking forward to a well versed professional who can manage the entire backend operation which includes hardware, servers, CRM and other business tools. Role involves leadership and strategic involvement."