[LA-Jobs] Operational Systems Administrator at Canonical Ltd.

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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/operational-systems-administrator-canonical-ltd
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Role Summary:

Part of the distributed operational systems administration team for Canonical  
Ltd., while the responsibilites for deployment, database maintenance and  
monitoring of numerous large scale public-facing web applications including  
Launchpad (launchpad.net), Ubuntu One (one.ubuntu.com) and Landscape  
(landscape.canonical.com). This role will be home based in Asia Pacific.



Key responsibilities/accountabilities:

* Carry out regular roll-outs of production and staging systems
* Response to outage/issues on the production and non-production environments
* Work with members of QA teams to diagnose problems on production and  
staging systems
* Coordinate with the development team on testing and roll out of new code
* Longer term tasks typically providing infrastructure for new features on  
the products we maintain
* Maintaining and in some cases creating reporting tools to analyze feature  
use/projects progress
* Develop replication and fail-over strategies for availability and scaling
* Documenting all of the above, and automating where possible


Required skills and experience:

* Good interpersonal interactions with customer (internal developers) and  
other members of the team
* Solid Linux systems administration skills (scripting etc.)
* Understood how to manage and maintain a secure computing environment and  
how to articulate security concerns
* Good knowledge and experience with web and application services including  
caching and balancing
* Good revision control skills particularly multi branch development and  
cherry picking
* Able to communicate clearly in English, especially using email and instant  
messaging
* Candidate needs to be self-driven, results-orientated and have a positive  
outlook. Attention to detail, good interaction with customers and personal  
motivation are key attributed to the success of this role


Desirable skills and experience:

* Experience managing clusters of Linux servers, particularly load balancing,  
rolling upgrades and managing a changing code base across multiple servers  
with minimal downtime and maximum stability
* Relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL, ideally 9.1 in a  
large replicated environment
* Python experience would be beneficial
* Experience with monitoring systems such as Cricket/Nagios would be  
advantageous
* Some familiarity with emerging/popular technologies such as NoSQL  
Databases/Message Queues, etc. as well as JuJu
* Familiarity with Ubuntu would be beneficial

Contact: haw.loeung at canonical.com

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