[JOB] Experienced Unix/Linux System Administrator

[Baruch Even]

Hi,

XIV, a group in IBM, is looking for an experienced Unix/Linux sysadmin
with the following qualifications:

Description:

A seasoned specialist in Unix/Linux operating systems.
Analyzes, acquires, installs, modifies and supports operating systems,
utilities programs
and tools. Develops, maintains and supports the systems software as
well as hardware and
software planning and evaluation. Works independently under general
requirements definition and
uses professional concepts to work on routine tasks of average
difficulty and complexity level. In a
large organization reports to Division Manager or directly to Senior
Infrastructure Manager. Usually
has up to 5 years of experience.

Required Skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing
purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making
presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with
upper management.
• Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
• Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration;
for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and
configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing
third-party software.
• Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system;
understands paging and swapping, devices and what device drivers do,
filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions).
• Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing
environment concepts; can configure NFS and NIS, NT domains; can use
nslookup or dig to check information in the DNS; understands basic
routing concepts.
• Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Python,
Tk, Perl, VBScript, a shell).
• Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs.

Required Background
• five years of system administration experience.

Desirable Background and Skills
• A degree in computer science or a related field.
• Significant programming background in any applicable language.

Appropriate Responsibilities
• Receives general instructions for new responsibilities from supervisor.
• Administers a complex site alone or assists in the administration of
a larger site.
• Initiates some new responsibilities and helps to plan for the future
of the site/network.
• Manages novice system administrators or operators.
• Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence on
purchasing process.


Contact Karmit Shitrit <karmit at il.ibm.com> for details and application.

Cheers,
Baruch