Kaango Classifieds

May 19, 2009

Wanted: Systems Administrator

Filed under: Job Openings, kaango — April Connolly @ 4:39 pm
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Systems Administrator
Jr-Mid Level Open Source & Windows Systems

Kaango Classifieds is seeking out an addition to our dynamic Engineering team. A successful Kaango Systems administrator is ready to contribute daily, drawing on their own experience and collective team wisdom to recommend Best of Breed, Enterprise-appropriate solutions for whatever business problems might be presented. The ideal candidate would have 4 years experience in LAN, WAN and/or Help Desk experience.

The chief duties of the System Administrator at Kaango is monitoring and management of all LAN and WAN system resources. The SA role has responsibility for 50+ systems, workstations and servers, with the majority of WAN server administration under RedHat Enterprise. LAN servers feature an Active Directory deployment for office security, network access permissions and remote access. In addition to responsibilities for corporate hardware, the Kaango SA is also responsible for vendor management and making recommendations on vendor selection.

Required
- Windows-based Networking and workstation setup; MS Windows Vista predominant
- PC&Network troubleshooting and remediation
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team to fulfill corporate and personal objectives
- Internet security for Windows and open source environments
- IP Chains/Firewall/ACLs
- Excellent communication skills
- Remote server/package installation and maintenance
- Experience operating internal asset management, change management and licensing compliancy company-wide
- Professional integrity
- Interest in joining a fast-paced, high reward startup environment

Nice to Have
- Apache/LAMP stack administration
- Server performance tuning
- Production Support experience with mission critical Enterprise Systems and Services in a 24/7 environment
- Virtualization and quality control networks/labs
- MySQL/RDBMS performance tuning and capacity planning
- System benchmarking
- Utilization and resource management experience for large volume data services
- Agile Methodologies (SCRUM specifically)

Contact careers@kaango.com to submit your resume.

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