soho square solutions is Hiring a Linux engineer/administrator Near New York, NY
We are looking for a hands-on Linux engineer/administrator who has real world Linux experience with hardening, tuning and managing systems in latency sensitive production environments.
This role will require travel to local data centers in the NY/NJ region, on-site physical racking and cabling of equipment and you will be on a rotating "on call" schedule approximately every 5-6 weeks to provide 24x7 coverage.
Responsibilities
Hands-on Red Hat/Oracle Linux and Solaris administrator
Primary roles are engineering and day to day operational support
Work closely with our application support, quality assurance, integration, development and performance teams.
Engineering solutions based on business requirements
Clear documentation of procedures and work
Provide high availability for all managed servers and components
Facilitation of timely and effective remediation for all Fxall issues
Ensure professional and timely communication with internal and external clients
Provide support for all client facing Fxall environments
Communicate status turnover in support of 24x7 support model
Will be on-call based on a rotating schedule
Provision of recommendations that will improve operational efficiency
Required skills (e.g. hands-on experience):
In-depth knowledge of Red Hat Linux distributions and the Linux kernel - Red Hat Linux 5, 6 and 7
Virtualization experience with KVM and/or Xen
Hands-on experience working in a data center (e.g. racking, cabling, power, capacity planning, best practices)
Experience deploying operating system builds and patches (e.g. kickstart, jumpstart, yum, YaST)
Experience supporting and troubleshooting JAVA based applications (e.g. Sun, BEA, IBM JVMs)