System Administrator
This position is responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of all systems in yuilop.
The systems administrator will support daily operations and help develop strategies to improve availability
and utilization of Linux environments.
Problems to work on
- Monitoring
- Data
- Automation
- Networking
- Security
Essential Functions
- Perform daily administration activities for all company Linux servers.
- Help develop, purchase and install scalable system architectures to tight cost constraints.
- Develop and implement administration standards and procedures.
- Monitor patch releases and develop patch installation strategies.
- Perform system backups.
- Provide input to the policies and procedures related to equipment purchase, use, support,monitoring, security, and backup.
- Maintain and extend system monitoring frameworks (Nagios).
- Support 24x7x365 data center operations.
- Support application installation and monitoring solutions.
- Provide after hours on-call support.
- Deploy applications to internal and customer facing environments.
- Support internal development and production departments.
Requirements
- 3 years administration experience in a Linux/Unix environment supporting business critical systems.
- Good interpersonal communication skills and written communication skills.
- Experience with DNS, SMTP, NFS, SNMP and configuration management tools.
- Network design skills, including VPNs.
- Understanding of load-balancing (LVS) and clustering
- Perl or other scripting language.
- Experience running Apache and other open source stacks in a production environment
Preferred
- Experience with Debian Linux
- System integration with 3rd party systems.
- Capacity planning.
- Knowledge of J2EE
- Erlang Scripting
Start date: ASAP
Location:Barcelona – First Mobile World Capital!
Offer: We offer creative freedom, competitive salary including employee stock option program, as well as fun work environment in Barcelona city center with a fruit stocked kitchen and more
Include an answer for the following problems
- Write a one-liner or program to delete all of the files matching *.sql smaller than 500 bytes in a given directory, but no subdirectories. Tip: Don’t forget about support for file names containing spaces.
- Write a one-liner or program to delete biggest 50 files matching *.dat in a given directory, but no subdirectories. Tip: Don’t forget about support for file names containing spaces.
- Write a Nagios check script for monitoring whether http://yuilop.com is online