System Administrator Job in Cockeysville, Maryland Us

Senior System Administrator - Hunt Valley, MD

Responsibilities

·         Designs, implements, and manages both local and wide-area networks of machines spanning multiple datacenters on multiple continents

·         Recommends additions and changes to information system standards, policies and procedures

·         Rapidly troubleshoots service outages

·         Effectively communicates technical information to Network Operations staff members and other corporate-wide staff

·         Assists with the evaluation and purchase of services and/or product and inventory of computer hardware, software, cabling and communication products

·         Provides monitoring, disaster recovery, and network hardware support

·         Maintains up-to-date detailed documentation

·         Provides strong project management skills

·         Mentors novice system administrators or operators

Requirements

·         Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

·         More than five years of previous UNIX system administration experience

·         Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customers or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management

·         Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes

·         Strong organizational skills and the ability to quickly assess and prioritize

·         Flexible and adaptive; ability to provide structure where appropriate and needed

·         A solid understanding of the UNIX operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use performance analysis to tune systems

·         A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts

·         Ability to program in an administrative language (Perl, a shell)

Desirable Background and Skills            

·         Experience or knowledge of the gaming industry

·         Experience with Ethernet VLANs, switched internetworking, VPN, and MPLS circuits

·         Programming background in any applicable language

·         Publications within the field of system administration