Linux guru

* Hardcore System Administrator, with vast experience in Linux Guru.
* Security and Uptime freak.
* A master of regular expressions and nifty one liner in sed, awk. Perl etc
* Ability to understand and solve complex problems, and to make quick decisions
* Ability to manage large server farms including cloud remotely and in a automated fashion.
* Strong customer service and computer skills.
* Able to manage multiple projects & prioritize diverse tasks
* Ability to solve a problem quickly & completely.
* A solid understanding of a LINUX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts. Linux internal hacking.
* A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts.
* A deep understanding of networking and networking technologies Switches, Routers, IP routing, load balancers, failure modes, diagnostics,...).
* Strong DNS Concepts.
* In-depth Knowledge of Apache web server and related modules like PHP, mod_security, Tomcat, SSL etc
* - Reverse proxies/HTTP accelerators.
* Ability to setup and maintain High Availability Clusters and Load Balanced environment
* In depth knowledge about Load balancing & High Availability.
* Firewalls (Iptables, BSD packet filter, other commercial etc)
* Understanding of Root kits, IDS, Firewall concepts
* SSH, SSL, Cyphers, PGP etc
* In-depth Knowledge of MRTG, Nagios, selinux.
* Knowledge about Linux system performance monitoring & tuning using tools like sysstat, dstat, oprofile, Frysk, SystemTap.
* Knowledge of MySQL, databases & in-depth fine-tuning procedures & advanced troubleshooting.
* Good knowledge of SQL & Databases (relational and non-relational,the ability to think in sets and graphs, performance tuning).
* Knowledge about RAID & LVM.
* Deep understanding of file systems - ext{234}, ntfs, XFS and recovery techniques.
* Knowledge of replicated & network file systems like NFS, DRBD.
* Knowledge of LDAP & Active Directory.
* Good program debugging skills.
* Scalability (Partitioning, Coupling, Caching etc) & capacity planning concepts.

Key Responsibilities:
* Monitoring of the Network, IT infrastructure and various applications to check for any new and outstanding alarms or issues.
* Troubleshooting, Resolving all Technical issues related to our software/networks and the range of Products and Services
* Design, build & implement infrastructures for large scalable web2.0 applications & networked systems.
* Creating high level architectural design of products & systems.
* Set up Monitoring, Configuration management, Administration & Operation practices for such applications/systems.
* Planning large migrations & executing it.
* Developing better monitoring and systems management practices to maximize uptime.
* Develop/Adopt new & efficient strategies to minimize manual/repetitive work, operational costs, deployment times, response times etc.
* Troubleshooting complex systems/network issues.
* Good understanding of statistics.
* Capacity planning
* Training & managing teams.
* Plan team todo's/goals, product upgrades/releases.
* Documenting processes, troubleshooting information, problems and their resolutions.
* Evaluate software/hardware products (free/commercial) as per needs.
* Prepare & present proposals with respect to systems/software infrastructure.
* Research & build specifications for new products & tools
* Acting as liaisons between junior system administrators, application administrators and software developers
* Converting software package requirements into configuration input for the configuration management system.
* High level log analysis, performance reports, trend analysis.
* Quick in decision making and execution.
* Assist operations teams in daily operations when required
* Assist developers in architectural and design problems.