Senior Linux Administrator

Located in nearly 100 countries and territories world-wide, our client is the world's largest global organization within their industry. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, they continue to be on the cutting edge of new technology. This established and growing organization has been recognized for their superior employee development efforts in Training Magazine's Top 125 for 2010 and remains an industry leader in environmental sustainability making continuous efforts to make an impact on the global environment. They offer a fast paced and high energy environment where your career is destined to thrive. They are currently seeking a Senior Linux Administrator to join their team.

This position is responsible for providing the technical expertise in the Incident Management process and is responsible for working within the Incident/Request queue, ensuring that the underlying cause of incidents is addressed and driving operational stability. This includes fulfilling user requests, resolving service failures, fixing problems as well as carrying out routine operational tasks for our business organizations.

This position provides service support during events/incidents in the Operations Command Center (OCC) and assists in recovery and process actions on emergency bridges, as well as ensure that all service level agreements (SLA) towards the customers are met, including assurances that incidents are resolved in a timely manner, with appropriate actions to mitigate business/customer impact and provides critical incidents receive a post incident review, intended to identify systemic and root cause issues which require resolution once the immediate impact is closed.

Experience:

- 5+ years' experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines including:
- Large scale processing operations over a number of international data centers and networks
- Advanced knowledge of the Linux operating system.
- Experience troubleshooting Java based applications, performing heap and thread dumps and basic
- memory use analysis
- Knowledge and experience with IP troubleshooting, TCP/IP, DNS, ping, trace route;
- troubleshooting T1 problems with vendors (Verizon, ATT, etc.), and using a trouble ticketing
- system such as Remedy
- Experience with implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Virtualized enterprise server
- hosts in VMware including experience with F5 load balancers; configuring and administrating
- LAMP Webservers, Oracle database Servers, and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Application Server
- environments
- Capable of analysing/parsing custom formatted log files
- Working experience using BASH/Perl, grep, AWK, SED, tcpdump
- Experience with VPNs, SSL (HTTPS/FTP)
- Basic understanding of Switches, Routers, Firewalls, VPNs and load balancers
- Experience using network monitoring systems such as HP Openview, Solarwinds Orion, and Cacti

For immediate consideration, please forward all resumes to (see below) or call.

Synergis serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.

Synergis is an Equal Opportunity employer.