Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Company Description

Saxon Global is one of the fastest growing Inc 500 Companies in the US, providing enhanced IT consulting, and engineering solution services. Saxon global specializes in Business Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data & Cloud and provides IT tools and services to help organizations across industry verticals such as Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Banking and Media Entertainment for their continued growth

Saxon Global in its constant endeavour to excel have strengthened its skills and expertise in emerging technologies like in Business Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data & Cloud. What makes Saxon Global unique is our ability to help clients meet their business challenges through these technologies and our expert solutions.

Saxon Global is partners with industry leading technology experts to create a compelling technology stack and drive the benefits of this to our esteemed customers through our skilled resources and deep vertical market experts.

Job Description

Position: Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Location: Reston, VA ( face to face is required)

Duration : 12 Months

Job Description:

• Deploys the release of new technologies as well as designs, installs, configures, maintains and performs system integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities and hardware.

• Responsible for troubleshooting server problems as reported by users.

• Researches, evaluates and recommends software and hardware products.

• Supports Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment.

• Provides new hardware specifications to users based on application needs and anticipated growth, installs new servers and maintains the server infrastructure.

• Requires a high level of expertise in multiple system environments.

Job Requirements:

• At least 7 years of Linux systems administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting experience in a large-scale (100+ servers), customer-facing, high availability environment.

• At least 4 years Administration, maintenance, support, tuning and scaling of Application Servers (Tomcat, Weblogic JBoss, etc.)

• At least 2 years supporting large scale applications in addition to providing system support,

• At least 3 years supporting large application software clusters (Riak, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) and with a clear understanding of their issues and bottlenecks.

• Tools development in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or similar languages.

• Creation of shell scripts to automate tasks and perform basic data analysis

• Experienced in managing a highly available customer facing applications be able to define and design applications based on LB and GSLB

• Experience managing servers remotely in a distributed environment.

• Experience in automation and configuration management.

• Design and implementation of monitoring and notification approaches which maximize system stability, function and performance.

• Demonstrated ability to stay organized while multi-tasking between several projects, and to adapt to change.

• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Team player with professional work ethic and positive attitude.

• Demonstrated ability to produce results with a minimum of day-to-day direction and be able to deliver on the contracted deliverables

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.

Thanks & Regards

Nagesh

Saxon Global Inc.

1320 Greenway Drive, Suite 660 Irving, TX-75038

Phone: 972 363 1009 X - 102

Qualifications

Bachelors

Additional Information

Interview process: phone screen, followed by Face to Face.