[LA-Jobs] Swift Digital

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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/swift-digital
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We are currently seeking an experienced Linux systems administrator.

We have custom built Marketing applications driven by email, SMS broadcast.

Initially there will be 2 full weeks of work at the North Sydney office, and  
a induction at our server location in Ultimo.

 From then, You need to be available to respond to automated service alerts  
when there is a problem. You need to be able to quickly identify the problem  
and rectify the situation, this includes program failures and bugs as well as  
securing the system from intruders and deny of service attacks. Visits to  
maintain hardware will be part of the cope when nescessary.

You should also be able to pinpoint any performance bottlenecks and suggest  
appropriate hardware upgrades or scale up the system across servers. You  
would also need to perform system upgrades and manage system backups.

You need to be intuitive and autonomous to handle the tasks. You need to have  
good experience how to retrieve relevant new information about any problem.

Work situation will develop into a telecommuting position, with a retainer  
fee for monitoring server performanace.

Required Skills

Demonstrated experience in maintaining sophisticated systems, other than just  
basic store/retrieve information systems

Strong understanding of the IP world on protocol level

Some insights into deeper level of the major services: http, dns, ...

Configuring apache

Using iptables

Understanding system performance variables

Having experience in using a combination of standard Linux tools to solve  
ad-hoc problems

Lots of experience with troubleshooting daemons and applications.

Some PHP programming knowledge

Postfix knowledge

Firewall maintenance

Relational database management knowledge and data abstraction into objects

Documentation

Contact: pc.yuen at swiftdigital.com.au

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