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Systems Administrator

Location: San Mateo, CA

BigMachines, Inc., a profitable, rapidly growing web software company (www.bigmachines.com) with offices in Deerfield, IL (Chicago north suburbs) and San Mateo, CA (Peninsula/Bay Area), is in search of a Systems Administrator. The company has been growing 50-100% p.a., is led by a strong management team, and backed by strong financial investors, who are looking to accelerate the company's growth to the next level.

This position will be 2nd shift (2pm-10pm). Responsibilities include maintenance of mission critical infrastructure, 24x7 rotating on-call response for critical response and thought leadership in general infrastructure growth and development

Duties:

• 2nd shift (2pm-10pm)
• 24x7x365 rotating on-call critical response on customer facing issues
• Support of infrastructure systems (Servers, switches, routers, Firewall and ASA) in co-located data centers
• Support Local internal users with desktop/laptop builds, troubleshooting and support
• Inter-team collaboration and thought leadership in general infrastructure growth and development
• Effective communication of technical information to team members, management, and vendors
• Performs moves, adds and changes of various Data Center equipment
• Documentation of new and existing IT Operations processes / procedures

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years professional experience in systems administration.
• Knowledge of Storage Management, Backup & Recovery.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration 4/5
• Database systems: Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g, MySQL
• Windows 2000 / 2003 domain environment
• Core knowledge of internet protocols (e.g. SMTP, HTTP, DNS).
• Core knowledge of firewall, load balancing, and SSL.
• Configuration knowledge of Cisco ASA products / Network architecture
• System automation: shell script, batch, perl and vbscript
• Ability to establish work priorities and manage workload autonomously.

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