[LUNI] ANN: Linux Jobs

[Jane Grote]

Hi all.  I saw this job and wanted to post it.

To coordinate the efforts of assigned Linux Systems
Administrators and act as a technical lead

Hostway Corporation is a recognized leader in Web
hosting industry, serving over 400,000 customers
worldwide with 7 international offices.  Due to our
continued growth, we are seeking a Lead Linux Systems
Administrator join our System’s Group in Chicago. 

Responsibilities:

Analyze and resolve advanced problems associated with
server hardware, UNIX application software and
escalated customer problems, facilitate maintenance
operations, performance and capacity planning, disk
space management, system documentation and procedures
and other operations specific responsibilities as
needed 
May be called on to communicate with criminal
investigative organizations as necessary, attend
strategy meetings and communicate system changes to
other departments 
Provide weekly status reports detailing completed
projects and any issues affecting operations, provide
other metrics as required 
Assume the role of technical lead which shall include
delegation of tasks, management of projects and
outages as well as provide technical assistance to
assigned System Administrators 
Help develop tools to monitor systems performance 
Optimization and tuning of various systems. 
You will be spending about 10% of your time on
management.  You will be leading mostly by example 
Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, management
information systems, or similar technical discipline,
or an equivalent combination of education and
experience (4 years). 
Advanced familiarity with system administration on
several variants of UNIX, including, but not limited
to, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and BSDi. 
Advanced skill to diagnose and remedy serious
UNIX-related problems and/or failures promptly and
effectively. 
Advanced ability to perform periodic software and
hardware system updates, upgrades, backups and
security patches 
Desire and patience to work with other members of the
staff to fix and improve existing services as well as
add new ones. 
Ability to install, configure, optimize and maintain
network services including but not limited to Apache,
Bind, Sendmail and FTP 
Experience with Shell scripting, PERL or C is required

Working knowledge of SQL, LDAP required 
Strong organizational and communication skills 
Must be available for on-call duties 
Desired Minimunm Qualifications:

BS in Computer Science preferred but not required. 
Minimum 3 years experience serving in a Senior
Administrator capacity. 
Physical Requiremants: 

Flexible work hours a must.  Days of week TBD. 
On-call availability required. 

 

To be considered, email your resume including salary
requirements to careers at hostway.com. 



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