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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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