As part of the larger team, the systems administrator will be responsible for
the the daily maintenance and growth of the production infrastructure. A solid
grasp of diagnosing and repairing problems in real time is required.

You will be expected to work on daily maintenance tasks as needed, as well as
plan and execute small projects to improve the stability and expansion of the
platform. For some projects, you will be responsible for both planning and
execution of projects, under guidance from the senior systems administrators.
This position requires excellent communication skills as you will regularly
work with people in geographically diverse locations and need co-ordination for
some tasks.

Being oncall is a requirement of this position, however the actual number of
hours oncall will be limited and the rotation will be approximately once every
4 weeks for 1 week.

SKILLS
The systems administrator should be at Sage level III or higher, with at least
5 years of experience managing environments with more than 100 servers.
This role requires someone who is able to perform a wide range of tasks from
installing and configuring servers, to designing new systems configurations for
increased reliability.

You should have a clear understanding of:
 * Unix fundamentals: pipes, redirects, job control, shell scripting, memory
management, filesystems, 
 * Networking knowledge: routers, switches, ethernet, TCP/IP
 * At least one of the following scripting languages: python, ruby or perl
 * x86 hardware: how components are connected in a system, causes of hardware
failure, testing
 * Databases: MySQL or Postgresql installation, configuration, management and
performance tuning

Experience in an ISP or other setting where you simultaneously and successfully
managed multiple large web, DNS, mail, etc clusters is a bonus.
The ability to read and understand C, C++ or Java is beneficial.