Sr. Unix Systems Engineer, Core Job in New York 10018, New York US
The New York Times Company, a leading global, multimedia news and information company with 2011 revenues of $2.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com , BostonGlobe.com , Boston.com , About.com and related properties. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.
The Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for building the next-generation infrastructure for NYTimes.com is looking for a hands-on Unix Systems Engineer. Day-to-day activities include providing design and infrastructure support to the NYTimes.com production and development environments, defining standards for virtualized, non-virtualized systems, and cloud systems, and collaborating with the rest of the Infrastructure Engineering department to achieve greater availability, reliability and maintainability ofNYTimes.com's underlying infrastructure.
Successful candidates will typically possess :
Three or more years in a Senior Unix administrator role
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; Ability to explain complex topics to a diverse user base, clearly present best practices to management, train unix operators/jr. unix administrators, and define processes and procedures.
Subject Matter Expertise ; Strong Linux background with significant exposure to three or more of the following disciplines:
Virtualization (VMware/EC2/Xen)
Storage (EMC)
Amazon Cloud technologies (VPC/RDS/S3/ELB)
Web technologies (Apache/NGINX/Jetty/Tomcat/Load balancing)
High Availability / Disaster Recovery
Networking (Cisco/Juniper)
Performance
Security
Backup (Networker/Recoverpoint)
Familiarity with the following ; DNS (BIND), LDAP, Metrics/Monitoring, MySQL/Oracle, NFS, SMTP/Postfix, FC/ISCSI SAN, SSH, SSL, GIT/SVN, TCP/IP
Familiarity with software development tools, methods, and processes
Extensive experience providing and automating day to day systems administration duties; Shell(Bourne) and Perl scripting abilities
Troubleshooting skills ; Ability to identify, isolate, and correct systems, networking, and virtualization related issues
Agility ; Ability to rapidly adapt to a fast paced, technology driven environment
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.
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