Tech Yahoo, Sys Admin

Job Description 

Tech Yahoo, Sys Admin

Job Number:

 1348565 

Primary Location

: India 

Other Locations

: India-Karnataka-Bangalore 

Description

 

The Yahoo! Unix Service Engineering team is looking for an experienced Systems Administrator to join us in expanding and operating the ever-evolving Yahoo! Infrastructure platform. We’re driven by a truly diverse array of technologies on the front and back-end; we’re massively expanding our search platform and we work very closely to other Yahoo properties: Mail, Answers, Flickr and Messenger, to ensure we deliver the best experience possible to our customers. 

Responsibilities: 

-Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

-Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage etc in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

- Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

-Contribute to and maintain system standards.

-Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processed, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

- Ramp up and contribute to the day to day operations of the Y! Infrastructure platform. Operate and improve the site by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy and business-continuity planning. 

- Work with yNOC/SOC to funnel the alerts using netcool

Qualifications: 

The ideal candidate enjoys a fun and very busy work environment, will jump in to debug and fix things, and multitasks and context-switches well. Candidate is talented across a variety of disciplines including: System Administration, Network Operations, Software Development, Build and Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, Site Operations. 

- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent 

- Minimum 5+ years of industry experience 

- Prior experience supporting 24x7, highly-available, service-oriented, distributed production system (>500 systems) and will eventually participate in on-call support rotation. 

- Strong understanding of best practices around web operations, software development, release engineering, quality assurance. 

- Strong written & oral communication skills are essential. Proven ability to write bugs, test cases, problem reports. 

- Substantial experience administering, supporting, debugging and tuning: 

Unix-based OSes: Linux and FreeBSD on x86 hardware 

Web servers & proxies Apache, Squid, Trafficserver 

Servlet containers: Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty 

Monitoring: Nagios, rrd. 

RDBMSes: MySQL 4/5 

- Enjoys scripting and has excellent shell and scripting skills: bash, Python,, Perl. Experience programming in C++ or Java a plus. 

- Hands on experience w/ revision control, build & release tools: Subversion, Perforce, CVS, make, ant, bamboo. 

- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers, highly available network servers

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