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Senior Linux Administrator

HOUSTON-77005, TX, US
01/30/2021

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Required Skills

Perl scripting

Company

Caprus IT Inc

Experience

Job Description

A fast-growing and dynamic online company has an immediate opening for a Linux Administrator candidate. This position will report to the Chief Technology Officer.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Typical day will involve;

monitoring /management of system resources
managing DR backup and restore procedures
resource upgrades
monitoring/maintenance of security vulnerabilities
work collaboratively with development teams
Other duties include intermittent client support of VPN access, automatic SFTP file submissions and others similar.
Writing scripts to automate all infrastructure processes, troubleshooting; servers, MySQL, Apache, PHP, RoR.
Position requires an in-depth knowledge of Linux and experience with large scale system architecture.
This position is about creating \ improving \ documenting processes
performing triage on any number of random issues that may arise at any given time.
Must have good written and verbal communication skills.
Be able to think critically and think outside the box to solve issues, or create solutions.
Individual must be self-motivated and have a can do attitude.
Job Requirements:

Must have at a minimum, Level III, experience working for large hosted environments such as HostGator, Rack space, or equivalent.
Significant Experience in AWS Compute solutions.
Ability to manage a large number of servers efficiently and through automation.
In-depth understanding of the entire LAMP stack
Experience with Ubuntu Linux
Experience with Linux Command Line
Experience with Apache, including configuring virtual hosts and suphp
Experience installing and configuring Nginx
Experience with Linux user management
Experience with bash and/or Perl scripting
Experience with ElasticSearch
Experience with ProxySQL
Experience with monitoring multiple servers in a production environment
Knowledge of DNS, DNS records, and functionality
Knowledge of networking, including network configuration and subnetting
Knowledge of Linux file systems, symlinks, permissions, owners, groups, and chroot
Experience partitioning, formatting, and mounting file systems in Linux, as well as the fsck tool
Experience with BIND and DNS zone files
Basic understanding of PHP and ruby on rails, understanding of PHP configuration
Experience with MySQL including database and user management
Willingness to look things up and learn something new every day