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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am currently hiring for this Linux opportunity:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are a member of the Amazon family and looking for a Systems Administrator Leader for our permanent opportunity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>You will report to our <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Senior Manager, Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joining our team will have you providing secure, available, scalable and operationally excellent infrastructure, support, and automation services across our organization. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You will enjoy communicating clearly and effectively with all our customers. In fact there are days you may tend to over-communicate and over-document. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>While <span style='color:#1F497D'>in this </span>technically hands-on role, you will find yourself leading a diverse team responsible for cloud and other (local, managed, etc) infrastructure services supporting onsite facilities, IT, customer service, and other teams. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>f you want to work on cutting edge cloud infrastructures, customer centered desk side support, and industry leading development automation techniques while leading a highly motivated team of experts, we are the environment just for you!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What fun stuff you will be doing daily?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Configuring and managing development, QA, staging, and production environments hosted in various cloud environments (Amazon) or client hosting centers. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wait … it gets even better! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In addition, you will designing and implementing our automated deployment system to support automated host deployment, configuration and updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Boredom has no place here because you will also be …<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Managing the promotion of code between environments using current techniques and tooling for infrastructure, deployment, and test automation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Collaborating with client and internal development teams to plan and support upcoming releases, and implement operational and process enhancements to improve reliability and scalability <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Designing and developing solutions for monitoring and alarming essential services. Monitoring production system performance, uptime, and daily operations, ranging from traditional system measures to business-specific transactional monitoring for nightly jobs and ad-hoc review of logs and BI systems, and be able to report on this performance regularly in business facing ways. Here you will put on your “Colombo” detective style to watch out for external threats to the critical services and take preventative actions towards managing availability and scalability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Developing capacity plans for future infrastructure needs and scale server environments to implement those plans <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Identifying and implementing opportunities for automating existing processes in order to streamline operations and support functions <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Managing Desk Side support and help desk functions across the key business areas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Managing server and application patches for routine upkeep and vulnerabilities <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Staying on the leading edge of innovations in the virtual hosting and management space and desk side support functions, bringing opportunities for improvement to the technical teams and guiding their implementation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Your familiarity with database technologies and architectures, including replication, management, and optimization is going to make you a “star” here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Your ability to perform problem determination and root-cause analysis to maximize availability and meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is going to take you places here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Securing networks and servers to security standards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Configuration of DNS, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, server OS's <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Working in coordination with others to develop strategic solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Creating innovative processes to drive compliance, accountability, and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Participating in the development of strategic IT roadmap development<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Basic Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Minimum 5 years of Linux/Unix System Administration experience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• B.A./B.S. in Computer Science or related field <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Knowledge of multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows, UNIX) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Knowledge of and experience with promotion strategies for applications and <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>databases between different development and production environments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience performing needs assessments, database planning, design, <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>application testing and integration, production cutover, change <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>management, and capacity planning <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience administering cloud or remote/managed hosting environments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Programming experience in a scripting language (Shell required, Python <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and/or Perl a plus)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Networked services implementation and troubleshooting (DNS, DHCP, <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NTP, LDAP, SAMBA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Deep Linux knowledge on Red Hat and Ubuntu platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Basic understanding of Windows client and server environments, and their <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>interaction with Linux servers (via Samba, LDAP, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Strong knowledge of network and server security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Obsessively thorough analytical and problem solving skills<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Excellent written and oral communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Prior experience with Active Directory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience with Cisco ASA firewalls, Dell switches, VLAN topologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience with Heartbeat or Pacemaker cluster management software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience with DRBD networked RAID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience with Splunk or other similar monitoring tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience in writing automation scripts and self-service tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience with Puppet\Chef automated administration engine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Salary: 90 – 105K base salary DOE + Stock Options + Sign On Bonus + Medical + Vision + Prescription + Optical + Dental + HSA, + FSA + 401K. First year – 2 wks vacation, after 2<sup>nd</sup> year, 3 wks vacation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS: Work/life balance plays an active part here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact: Betty Scott – 770-604-0006 or email bscott@ashleyellis.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>