The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate not only foundational experience but also more importantly a strong desire to learn and progress his or her knowledge. The ideal candidate would begin in this role with at least one to three years’ experience with some of the following concepts and technologies:
- Linux administration experience that demonstrates an understanding of the operating system and its fundamentals including Bash scripting.
- Web Administration including Apache and SSL Certificate Management
- Understanding of Databases and Database administration
- Experience with the LAMP stack is a plus.
- Understanding of security basics such as access control lists, user administration, firewalls, VPNs, reverse proxy servers (HAProxy), password management, privileged management, vulnerability management, disaster recovery anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.
- Understanding of DNS, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, HTTP, Subnets and general network topology.
- Understanding of cloud computing. Experience with AWS Elastic Cloud and Serverless technologies a plus.
- Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation understanding and experience is a plus.
- Understanding of ticketing, change and configuration management process and tools. Experience with Jira, confluence and bitbucket is a plus.
- Understanding of systems monitoring process, tools and platforms.
- MySQL, MariaDB and Galera Clustering experience is a plus.
- Ansible, PHP, Python, Redis, Elastic Search, Build and Automated Testing Pipelines experience is a plus.
- Jenkins or similar automation tool
Though specific products and skills are listed above, similar skills and experiences that
demonstrate systems administration knowledge and capability will be considered.