System Administrator

Job Description for System Administrators

Must Have Experience & Skills

• Bachelors degree in Science
• Hands on experiences with Linux
• Strong command line familiarity (principles, navigation, file editing/manipulation, etc)
• Understand file systems layout
• Users and file access management
• Software installation and upgrade (manual and with package management tools like yum/rpm and apt/deb)
• General knowledge of network protocols
• Detecting and troubleshooting software and hardware issues
• Monitoring the performance of the system
• Practical experiences with Bash
• Able to communicate (read/write/speak) in English in order to support US teams
• Able to interact with fellow employees and some time working odd hours as needed.
• Highly motivated, driven, can work independently, and with good work ethics.

Good to have Experience & Skills

• Practical experiences in one of the interpretive languages (e.g., python, ruby, perl, etc)
• Understand concept of cloud and virtualization environments
• Practical experiences with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Practical experiences with configuration management; e.g., puppet, chef, etc.
• Practical experiences with DBMS (e.g., mysql, postgresql, etc) and use of respective client tools
• Working knowledge on Windows Desktops (to resolve Eclipse/Sqlyog etc issues)
• Knowledge on ticketing software for record keeping.