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UNIX Systems Administrator

Did you ever think of books as high-tech? Do you love technology? Do you have great interpersonal and communication skills, and thrive in a fast paced e-commerce environment?

If so, you should consider growing your career in Systems Administration at AbeBooks, a subsidiary of Amazon Inc. and a global online marketplace for books, with over 110 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of sellers.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our Site Operations team in providing UNIX systems administration and support in our highly available mission critical environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform all operational and administrative activities for system management including diagnosing/troubleshooting complex problems.
  • Identify and solve issues in a fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Administration and support of hardware and software.
  • Effectively monitor performance of systems and make recommendations for improvement of enterprise applications.
  • Ability to multitask between site maintenance and project based initiatives.
  • On-call, via pager, first response monitor for website and batch problems on a rotating basis with other Operations personnel, on-call rate adjustment provided.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Apache web server configuration.
  • Experience with Tomcat application servers.
  • Familiarity with Cisco network hardware, IOS and standard network protocol principals and functions.
  • Extensive experience in administering Unix Systems. This includes installation, patch installation, disk configuration, network configuration, and familiarity with all of the standard UNIX tools.
  • Should be thoroughly familiar with internet protocols and configuration of servers that support them: HTTP, FTP, POP, SENDMAIL, DNS, NFS, SMB, SSH.
  • Extensive Experience with Shell (bourne/korn/bash) and Perl scripting for the purpose of systems administration.
  • Experience with SAN products - EMC/NetApp would be an asset.
  • An Understanding of JMS, and administration of messaging Queue products (SonicMQ/IBMMQ).
  • Experience with virtualization technologies in a production environment (VMware and Xen).
  • Experience with backup technologies and methodologies (Veritas NetBackup, file replication).
  • Experience working in a “lights out” environment
  • University degree in Computer Science with four to seven years experience in UNIX Systems administration in a mission-critical 24 x 7 x 365 server environment

If you are looking for a challenging career, please e-mail a detailed resume to hr@abebooks.com. Quote the Position Title in the Subject line of your email.

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