Send resumes to jagd...@paramountsoft.net *Position Title: Linux Administrator* Location: Sunnyvale, CA Duration: 6+ months Contract Project *Local Candidates or Nearby are preferred, who can attend In-person Interview after Initial Telephonic screen.*
*Description:* Client provides SaaS and on-premises solutions for inbound email security, outbound data loss prevention, privacy protection, email encryption, electronic discovery ("eDiscovery") and email archiving. · Must pass background check that client will run *Requisition Details: * We are looking for an outstanding Linux Systems Administrator or DevOps engineer who strives to work in a highly-available production environment (we're running at 99.999%) with a strong desire to support large-scale customers in the cloud (e.g., we have multiple Fortune 500 customers). This will be a ~6 month contract position. *Responsibilities include:* · Install, configure, and upgrade nodes in high availability customer production clusters. · Manage an international 24x7, multi-site production infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services, including deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security. · Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reporting in the production environment. · Contribute to the evolving design and architecture of reliable and scalable infrastructure. · Collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure Operations standards are observed, determine resource impacts for upcoming product deployments, and ensure successful product rollouts. · Develop processes, tools, and documentation in support of production operations. · Evaluate new software, hardware and infrastructure solutions. · Participate in an on-call rotation and be willing to jump on escalated issues as needed. *Requirements:* · Demonstrable skills and 4+ years’ experience managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux systems. · Experience automating management of systems and applications using Perl, Python, or Ruby. · Experience with industry-standard foundation technologies such as DNS, SMTP, NTP, LDAP, and NFS. · Experience with virtualization - VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, and vCenter , Open Stack and KVM. · Excellent verbal and written communication skills. · Experience with monitoring and alerting systems. · Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in colocation datacenters. · Experience using Puppet or Chef. · Experience with load-balancing technologies – F5, Netscaler or similar. · Experience with CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and creating RPM packages. · Experience with public cloud providers such as Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USITCV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usitcv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to usitcv@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/usitcv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.