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Perm Role
$70,000-$80,000
Job Description
Systems Administrator
Position Description
As a member of Technology Operations, the Systems Administrator at Moodlerooms responsibilities extend across the infrastructure and systems of a 24x7x365 production environment providing online classrooms in a SaaS model. The Systems Administrator accomplishes this by applying a diverse set of technical skills and experiences across a multitude of application and infrastructure technologies, and by maintaining excellent relationships with technology and business stakeholders.
The primary focus for this position is the collaborative ownership of a cloud-based learning management platform operating within a LAMP stack. Additional responsibilities will extend to maintaining metrics and processes associated with Service Management as outlined in the ITIL Version 3 framework.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research, design, develop and implement solutions for fault tolerance, performance, capacity, and configuration management for various technical operations.
- Work in tightly focused teams to identify efficient, centralized solutions.
- Provide subject matter expertise and leadership with respect to a moderate to large-scale MySQL implementation.
- Identify production stability concerns via break point and impact analysis.
- Design, develop and implement remediation plans to address issues.
- Design, develop and implement documentation or tools to improve the capabilities of lower levels of Technical Support.
- Mentor Technical Support team.
- Interface with development teams to resolve Tier 3 ‘in code’ issues.
- On-call support for escalated off-hours issues.
- Maintain a high degree of involvement with development and architecture teams regarding application needs or repercussions of infrastructure changes.
- Work with Development counterparts from within and outside the SDLC to improve code and architecture.
- Execution and maintenance of internal SLAs developed with business stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Linux operating systems dominance.
- Familiarity with HA configurations, security and patch management and general *nix administration.
- Experience managing large server fleets highly desired.
- Near mastery of the following: Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP.
- Automated deployment genius using Chef or Puppet.
- Strong scripting experience to produce solutions and perform troubleshooting—preferably in Ruby or Bash.
- Strong grasp of Internet network concepts, protocols and associated services (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS).
- NAS administration a plus.
- Strong understanding of application development.
- Programming experience and ability to understand and deconstruct program flow.
- ‘Blow us away’ analytical skills.
- Ability to analyze and predict performance capabilities of a given application system.
- Resourcefulness for uncovering disparate performance data points and correlating them.
- Follows IT industry trends and developments in open source.
- Strong communication (both verbal and written) and customer service skills.
- Ability to exchange information with technical and non-technical individuals in a clear and concise manner.
- Ability to work harmoniously and effectively as part of a team.
- Cool under pressure.
Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline AND 5+ years in a technical role involving applications operation and management, preferably in a 24-7-365 production environment.
Additional Information
Why Veredus?
Candidates work with a professional recruiter whose average experience is eight years in the industry. That means they have intimate knowledge of the Information Technology industry and market trends-who is in demand now and who will be next. Your Veredus Recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and desires. They also counsel their candidates in resume writing, interviewing, and career planning so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it. Additionally, Veredus provides the following benefits:
- Medical Benefits
- Consultant Lunches and Outings
- Dental Benefits
- Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit)
- Vision
- ATOP-Accrued Time Off Program
- 401K
- Consultant Web-Site
- Name Plates
- Care packages/Survival packs
- Dedicated Consulting Services Representative
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