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Friday, September 3, 2010

Keen to work in the middle east? Here’s an opportunity!

Position summary 
A system engineer role focused on providing support  to clients’ critical Linux/UNIX systems locally and internationally. Position require to be deployed in a middle-east country for 1 year.


Duties & accountabilities 
Providing infrastructure provisioning, deployment and support service to  internal and clients’ critical systems including on-call and out-of-hours work
Configuring and troubleshooting application servers, web servers, mail services and other UNIX/Linux services, as well as windows based services, relevant to company’s products and services. 
Maintaining a broad knowledge of operating systems and hardware and making recommendations on improving administration, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery of current systems.
Documenting systems design, configuration, and administration items for the purposes of educating new hires and to provide better and consistent global support.
Enforcing change management controls on production and QA systems.
Coordinating with development teams for releases of in-house and third party software.
Business competencies 
Education and experience
2 – 3 years of proven track record working as a Linux Systems Engineer.
Good tertiary education from a recognized institution
Experience of problem solving in a demanding production environment.
Experience of working independently and effectively without a high level of direct supervision.
Able to relocate for work in an foreign location for fix period as required
Knowledge of various computing hardware and their configuration (Server, SAN, Network, etc).
Experience with Linux operating system and different Linux distributions, networking protocols, services, and utilities (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu)
Knowledge of installation, configuration, and management of Apache, Tomcat, JBoss and ActiveMQ 
Knowledge of Linux/Unix security best practices. 
Knowledge of web application security, including common vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate attacks. 
Knowledge of various virtualization techniques and related technology, including VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen
Experience of VMWare infrastructure provisioning and support an advantage, but not required.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified an advantage, but not required

 Interested parties, please contact outsidethelt@gmail.com

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