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WHAT YOU WILL DO
Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for the infrastructure
Work with the NOC and DC Tech teams, using Tivoli monitoring and other tools to ensure the integrity and availability of our hardware, server resources, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
Work with the incident team to diagnose and recover from hardware or software failures working with or as the Incident Commander to coordinate and communicate with our internal customers
Assist project teams with technical issues in the planning phase of sites or project development efforts
Gather system requirements and support several project teams in evolving, testing and rolling-out new products and services, then transitioning the site or product to post launch operations activities throughout life of the product or service
Work with the R&D team and other systems engineers to make improvements
Document processes and procedures and follow a formal change management procedure
WHAT YOU MUST HAVE
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent work experience
10+ years’ experience administering Linux required or equivalent work experience
Experience with Apache, nginx, lighttpd, and high volume web servers
Experience with monitoring tools, e.g. nagios, cacti
Experience with load balancers
Experience in analysis and system performance tuning
Experience with proxies / reverse proxies, e.g. ha-proxy, squid, varnish
Knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP
Knowledge of OSI model
Knowledge of the challenges in a very large multifaceted global environment
Ability to implement automation and monitoring using shell scripting and other related tools such as puppet, ansible, salt, chef, etc...
You must be comfortable with adult content
You must be at least 21 years old
FriendFinder Networks is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator who will be responsible for availability, installation, configuration, provisioning, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software. You will respond to trouble tickets created by the NOC, monitor automations and internal customers; install new servers, rebuild existing servers, and configure hardware, peripherals, services, and settings in accordance with operational requirements. You have to document, update and maintain installation and configuration procedures on the Wiki, and will contribute and maintain best practices documentation for operations, security, and capital efficiency.