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, the world’s largest online marketplace for books, with over 110 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books listed by over 13,500 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.
• Network and user administration.
• Administration and support of hardware and software.
• Effectively monitor performance of systems and make recommendations for improvement of enterprise applications.
• 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 JAVA and 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.
Experience with shell and PERL scripting for the purpose of systems administration.
Experience with different type of RAID configurations and advanced file system managers.
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 or college degree in Computer Science or Technology with at least four years experience in UNIX Systems administration in a mission-critical 24 x 7x 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. We appreciate your interest in AbeBooks!
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