[ALE-jobs] Apex Systems-Sr Linux Engineer Position

[Jamiel S. Saliba, III]

Job Description:
The Senior Engineer is responsible for the operation and management of all production, staging, and development server systems, and industry leading load balancer appliances.  Responsibilities involve planning, designing, and implementing server hardware and software; monitoring of servers and hosted applications/web sites; supporting operational issues that are beyond operations staff; project implementation; providing training and assistance to users and coworkers.  The Senior Engineer is responsible for project planning, cost analysis, and vendor comparisons.  The Senior Engineer provides mentoring to the other Internet Services Engineers.

The Senior UNIX and Internet Services Engineer position will work closely with the Development, Systems Support and systems/storage groups. This position is responsible for management and administration of development and staging environments for the Development, QA and Product Management groups.

Job Responsibilities:
*          Knowledge of Solaris, UNIX, and Linux (SUSE or Redhat) operating systems.
*          Knowledge of Data Center architecture design and management.
*          System installation and maintenance of Solaris, UNIX and Linux systems.
*          Sun Solaris, Linux (SUSE or Redhat), and general UNIX administration.
*          Administration of DNS, SMTP, FTP, SSH, LDAP, and NFS services.
*          Patch management, upgrades to critical systems worldwide.
*          SAN/NAS storage systems knowledge.
*          Hardware, software and network troubleshooting.
*          Product evaluation and presentation of new technology initiatives.
*          Project planning, execution, and management.
*          Understanding of new business initiatives and the implementation of technologies to facilitate them.
*          Manage systems to achieve 24x7 availability.
*          Work closely with the storage, network and development groups to ensure business continuity.
*          Some travel will be required.  International travel credentials are a must.
*          Interface with various internal and external business units to ensure the initiatives of the internet technology group will support the success of the business and maximize customer satisfaction.
*          Responsible for new server installations including OS install, raid configuration, and NIC configurations
*          Knowledge and ability to write scripts for configuration and automation (bash, ksh, perl, python)
*          Disk volume manager administration.
*          Responsible for troubleshooting various server hardware issues including memory upgrades, hard drive replacement, raid controller replacement
*          Install, configure, and manage industry leading load balancers including advanced load balancing and load management concepts.
*          Creating, configuring, and tuning java application servers and web servers for development, staging, and production environments.
*          Responsible for design, configuration and maintenance of Apache and Tomcat servers servers.
*          Responsible for content updates and deploying war files into staging and production environments
*          Perform other duties as assigned by management.
*          Knowledge, and administration of industry leading virtualization software.
*          Mentors other Unix and Internet Services Engineers.


Jamiel S. Saliba III
Technical Recruiter
Apex Systems
One Perimeter Park South
Suite 410 South
Birmingham, Alabama 35243
Office:  205-623-1115
Mobile:  205-585-8409
jsaliba at apexsystemsinc.com<mailto:jsaliba at apexsystemsinc.com>
www.apexsystemsinc.com<http://www.apexsystemsinc.com/>

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