Linux Systems Administrator

What you will do in this role:

• Planning, configuration, deployment, and maintenance work associated with the production environments supporting our CDN, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud Storage products
• Maintain various Linux services (Bind, Apache, HAProxy, Varnish, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RAID, …) and other custom services
• Resolve production-affecting issues as they are reported by customers/monitoring systems/sourced internally from Ops
• Create and maintain detailed documentation
• Participate in a on-call rotation (either as a primary or escalation contact)

What you will bring to this role:

• University degree or college diploma in a Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 3+ years solid years experience linux system administration (packages, users, ACLs, resource management, securing base installations, discovering basic hardware issues, etc…)
• Experience with command line tools (AWK, sed, grep, …) and one or more scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python, …)
• Understanding of TCP/IP, firewalls and an overview of load balancing clusters
• Written and verbal fluency in English
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; excellent organizational skills and an ability to triage issues
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and attention to details & deadlines
• Ability to work under pressure and to easily flow with changes to priorities and projects
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a high-performance organization

The Position:

Why Crossvallia: