JOB DESCRIPTION
- Configure and maintain application servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities.
- Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
- Installing and maintaining the LAMP server stack.
- Provision and manage cloud-based services. Provision and manage cloud-based services.
- Installation and configuration of internally developed and third-party commercial & open-source application software in our test and production environments.
- Support development and QA across various projects to satisfy their day to day needs
- Reviewing system and application logs, looking for any potential issues and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues reported by both Service desk and Event Management systems
- Periodically monitor system performance and capacity to provide input for needed expansion or alternative configurations to support additional storage, database capacity, or web server capacity needs.
- Study and implement new tools for increased productivity, security, reliability and performance.
- Managing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.
- Administer and maintain virtual server environments.
- Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real-time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
- Gather regular performance statistics using automated scripts or tools and present to reporting manager upon request or agreed regular intervals.
- Check and ensure that the backups taken as per the backup policy are successful and are of usable quality.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis of major incidents and recurring problems with web and database services and recommend and implement corrective actions.
- Knowledge of configuring and managing switches/firewalls will be an added advantage.
Skills Required
- Strong knowledge of Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL/CentOS 5/6/7 in an enterprise environment.
- Fluent in Apache web servers and Nginx / Litespeed.
- Experience working on high traffic B2C or B2B websites.
- Good Knowledge of LAMP stack implementations
- Experience running applications and systems in Amazon Cloud or Google Cloud environments.
- Strong Scripting skill in one or more of Perl, Python or bash/shell.
- Experienced or extremely familiar with Jenkins, AWS.
- Proven Systems Administration experience within a mixed Windows, Linux physical and virtual environment
- Experience with software management - installations, patching of OS/apps etc.
- Experience working with monitoring tools Nagios, NewRelic, ELK Stack and Zabbix.
- Exposure or familiar with some of these technologies: Redis, Java, Kong API Gateway, Git and REST API's.
- Knowledge of Clusters, Storage, Backups, Data Export/Import, Monitoring tools, and disaster recovery.
- Some knowledge of PHP Scripting would be ideal but not essential.
- Experience on Docker, Kubernetes will add advantage.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Linux Administrator & DevOps Engineer - Red Hat/CentOS/Ubuntu (3-6 yrs) (S & F Consultants)
