Systems Administrator ( Linux & Windows)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service
• Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
• Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

• Previous working experience as a Linux Administrator for minimum 3 years
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar relevant degree 
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Rich experience on Web servers administration
• Good exposure in Implementation for FTP server on Linux

What we do?

We are a boutique IT services & solutions firm. Our offering includes custom-configured hardware solutions backed by our managed services. We combine best in class DevOps and IT infrastructure management practices, so customers can have a secure, reliable platform built to scale with their growing requirements at an optimal cost. We provide a global footprint of highly reliable enterprise-class data centres in 200+ locations worldwide, so customers can design and deploy your infrastructure for productivity and innovation. A few of the solutions managed for our clients include Hybrid & Private cloud, cloud storage, back up, disaster recovery, virtual desktop, Data Science platform, SDN, Cloud Migration, Infrastructure as a Services, Managed Cloud Services , Application Hosting , GPU Servers for AI, Big Data and IoT, Media Streaming , Innovation Labs & NPD Infrastructure, eCommerce, Big Data and BI, Security.

What are we looking for?

• MCSA or MCSE certifications (Windows 2012 or higher)

• Must have strong communication skills and the ability to articulate task management, priorities, and issues.

• Technologies: Windows Server 2012/2016/2019, Active Directory design and management, Group Policy customization, WSUS / WDS / MDT design, deployment and operations, Hyper-V/VMWare virtualization, VDI / VDA, MS-Exchange Server, Certificate Authority, etc

• Proven expertise in powershell scripting and automation

• Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.

• Capable of handling projects & good in customer communications

• Proactive self-starter, delivery focused, results orientated, team player, high professional standards and work ethic, strong-willed but flexible, and capable of making independent decisions

• Has a passion for innovation and working in a start-up environment with Good communication skills

What will you be doing!

• We are looking for game-changers who are confident to use their talent to make a difference.

• Proven work experience as a Windows System Administrator.

• Strict adherence to the use of the ticketing system for ALL incidents, changes and problems

• Ability to correlate incident trends into problem management and execute permanent fixes.

• Timely generation of customer facing incident reports

• Execute monthly patch management research, reports and implementation on system infrastructure.

• Provide lab simulation and interoperability and compatibility testing for new builds

• Analyse troubleshooting techniques output, diagnose problems remotely

• Must maintain the highest level of industry certification and knowledge.

• Ability to architect, build, maintain, and enhance our current managed service offerings and infrastructure.

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Roles & Responsibilities​​

1. Work across the entire landscape that spans network, compute, storage, databases, applications, and business domain
2. Use the Big Data and AI-driven features of vuSmartMaps to provide solutions that will enable customers to improve the end-user experience for their applications
3. Create detailed designs, solutions and validate with internal engineering and customer teams, and establish a good network of relationships with customers and experts
4. Understand the application architecture and transaction-level workflow to identify touchpoints and metrics to be monitored and analyzed
5. Analytics and analysis of data and provide insights and recommendations
6. Constantly stay ahead in communicating with customers. Manage planning and execution of platform implementation at customer sites.
7. Work with the product team in developing new features, identifying solution gaps, etc.​
8. Interest and aptitude in learning new technologies - Big Data, no SQL databases, Elastic Search, Mongo DB, DevOps.​

Skills & Experience

1. At least 2+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure Management
2. Experience in working with large-scale IT infra, including applications, databases, and networks.​
3. Experience in working with monitoring tools, automation tools
4. Hands-on experience in Linux and scripting.
5. Knowledge/Experience in the following technologies will be an added plus:​ ​ElasticSearch, Kafka, Docker Containers, MongoDB, Big Data, SQL databases, ELK stack, REST APIs, web services, and JMX.

Roles & Responsibilities

Selected engineer's day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Maintaining UNIX user accounts and access managements,

• Good understanding of LDAP vs local IAM management.

• Setting up repositories and maintaining.

• Should be very comfortable with troubleshooting Linux-based systems on issues and failures with good grasp of the Linux command line

• Specialist knowledge in Unix Technologies – RedHat , SUSE Linux & SOLARIS.

• Good hands-on experience in parallel filesystems.

• Good understanding on basic networking technology e.g. TCPIP, ip multipathing, ip aggregation, DNS, DHCP etc.

• Comfortable exploring and testing new Open Source software systems should the need arise to solve particular problems

• Setting up and maintaining SUSE and Red hat Clusters with DRBD, Stonith and Coro sync

• Good knowledge in virtualisation/hypervisor technologies on various operating platforms e.g. VMWare, HPE Service Guard cluster

• Good understanding of the various enterprise technologies e.g. SAN, enterprise backup, enterprise monitoring etc

. • Good knowledge in handling NFS file systems and NFS servers

• Troubleshooting performance issues

• Shell, Power shell and python scripting

• Creating custom image based on the security requirements • Planning and executing security patches periodically

 

Education, Experience & other requirements

Ø Degree in Computer science, Information technology or any related discipline

Ø Minimum 4 - 5 years of experience into Unix server’s setup, administration, upgrading and support.

Ø Good verbal and written communication and able to manage key stakeholders i.e. project team, security, compliance and IT operations

Ø Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

 

 

Location: Bangalore

 

Linux management

Desktop support

Sophos firewall

NAS

Job Requirements and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree with a background in math will be a PLUS.
• Must have 5+ years system administration experience with a mix of Linux and Window systems in a medium
to large business environment.
• Must have command level fluency and shell scripting experience in a mix of Linux and Windows
environments.
• Must have experience in one or more public cloud environment: AWS / Azure / GCP
• Must have experience in using automation tools (Cloud Formation, Terraform) to build cloud infrastructure.
• Must have experience in basic MySQL administration – configuration, backups, replication.
• Must have experience in Apache and other webserver administration on Linux platforms.
• Must have exposure to VMware or other enterprise virtualization software.
• Certification with Red Hat or any other Linux variant will be a BIG PLUS.
• Fluent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook / Word / Excel).
• Possess a strong aptitude towards automating and timely completion of standard/routine tasks.
• Must be able to work in a complex, dynamic team environment and possess good organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate with individuals and in an articulate, professional manner.
• Experience with automation and configuration control systems like Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and handle multiple assignments on a daily basis.
• Previous experience with leading technical projects desired.
• Track record of mentoring junior team members.

The engineer will be placed at the client location
2. Can demonstrate an understanding of the
following concepts
● Common Linux Utilities
● Server/Application Architecture and
Security Hardening
● Virtualization
● Load Balancing
● Networking Concepts
3. Install, configure, manage and maintain all Linux
server-based applications
4. Strong Knowledge in redhat Clustering
5. Ensure all Linux based systems have the
appropriate patches installed, includes but is not
limited to, security, applications, and OS
6. Ensure all Linux based systems are running
current versions of antivirus software with
current virus definition files
7. Follow the Policies and procedures at the client
location

Job Responsibilities: 

 

This role requires you to work on Linux systems and their associated services which provide the capability for IG to run their trading platform. Team responsibilities include daily troubleshooting and resolution of incidents, operational maintenance, and support for proactive and preventative analysis of Production and Development systems. 

1. Managing the Linux Infrastructure and web technologies
2. Patching and upgrades of Redhat Linux OS and server firmware. 
3. General Redhat Linux system administration and networking. 
   iii. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution of OS and network stack incidents. 
   iv. Configurations management using puppet and version control. 
   v. Systems monitoring and availability. 
   vi. Web applications and application routing. 
   vii. Web-site infrastructure, content delivery, and security. 
4. Day to day responsibilities will include: Completing service requests, responding to Incidents and Problems as they arise as well as providing day to day support and troubleshooting for Production and Development systems. 
   3. Create a run book of operational processes and follow a support matrix of products. 
   4. Ensuring Internal Handovers are completed, and all OS documentation is updated. 
   5. Troubleshoot system issues, plan for future capacity, and monitor systems performance. 
   6. Proactive monitoring of the Linux platform and ownership of these tools/dashboards. 
   7. Work with the delivery and engineering teams to develop the platform and technologies, striving to automate where possible. 
   8. Continuously improve the team, tools, and processes, support regular agile releases of applications and architectural improvements. 
   9. The role includes participating in a team Rota to provide out-of-hours support. 

Person Specification: 
Ability / Expertise 

This position is suited to an engineer with at least 8 years of Redhat Linux / Centos Systems Administration experience that is looking to broaden their range of technologies and work using modern tools and techniques. 

We are looking for someone with the right attitude: - 

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  Eager to learn new technologies, tools, and techniques alongside applying their existing skills and judgment. 
  • Pragmatic approach to balancing different work priorities such as incidents, requests and 

Page Break troubleshooting. 

• Can do/Proactive in improving the environments around them. 
  • Sets the desired goal and the plans to achieve it. 
  • Proud of their achievements and keen to improve further. 

This will be a busy role in a team so the successful candidate’s behaviors will need to strongly align with our values: 
• Champion the client: customer service is a passion, cultivates trust, has clarity and communicates well, works with pace and momentum 
• Lead the way: innovative and resilient, strong learning agility and curiosity 
• Love what we do: Conscientiousness - has high self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, and organization, Flexible and adaptable 

 The successful candidate will be able to relate to the statements above and give examples that back them up.  We believe that previous achievements signpost a good fit at IG. 
 

Qualifications 

Essential: 

• At least 4 years’ Systems Administration experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux / Centos 5/6/7 managed through a Satellite infrastructure. 
• Managed an estate of 1000+ hosts and performed general system administration, networking, backup, and restore monitoring and troubleshooting functions on that estate. 
• 1 Years of experience with scripting languages (bash/Perl/Ruby) and automating tasks with Puppet and Redhat Satellite. Experience with custom RPM generation. 
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. You will have resolved complex systems issues in your last role and have a solid understanding of the tools needed to do so. 
• Excellent Communication (Listening, speaking, the transmission of concepts with/without examples, etc). 
• Calm under pressure and work to tight deadlines. You will have brought critical production systems back to life. 

Who are we? BlueOptima is the only company providing reliable, objective software development productivity metrics. The technology has been implemented by some of the world’s largest organizations including insurance companies, telecoms and seven of the world’s top ten Universal Banks. BlueOptima is a Private Limited company, incorporated in 2007 and based in London. BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer. Whom are we looking for? We are hiring for a System Administrator to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for a talented System Administrator with deep experience in AWS and managing large number of Linux servers used for hosting purposes, to join our research and development team in India. What does the role involve? Manage AWS services used, covering following (but not limited to) ec2 instances and network configurations IAM policies. Security perimeter on ec2, s3 and VPC Design, install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL database clusters. Respond to and resolve database access, performance, and other issues. Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize database usage. Ability to work non-peak hours when needed and for deployment and other configuration changes which might affect service availability. Using tools like Puppet and Terraform for application deployment and management. Maintaining monitoring tools, e.g. Cacti. Configuring and Maintaining ELK server for log aggregation and alerting. Maintaining VPN and NIDS services running in VPC The role is based in India. Why work for us? Compensation is higher than market salary Stimulating challenges that fully use your skills, e.g. real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers Hardware of your choice (e.g. Macbook Pro or Dell XPS) Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression More about working at BlueOptima Required Skills B.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc. Experience with ELK or Splunk. With strong understanding of both structured and unstructured data. Experience with using automation tools like Puppet and Terraform. Excellent oral and written communication skills Good understanding on Networking and packet capturing and analysis Ability to troubleshoot problems remotely and VPN/network connectivity issues from different OS environments

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.