iBCScorp.com is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for its Battaramulla, Sri Lanka office

This persons main responsibility will be to work with and to support staff in Sri Lanka, the US and customers in various locations.

Preferred experience for the Linux Systems Administrator

This persons should have 2-3 years or more experience in Linux systems administration using one of the popular Linux distributions preferably Ubuntu, RedHat or Fedora.

This person should have experience maintaining servers and doing most of the following tasks:

• Creating scripts to manage the server maintenance events.
• Creating Maintenance schedules and processes
• Setting up monitoring of machines for performance, security and other events
• Upgrading servers
• DNS Setup and migration
• Mail Server setup and maintenance
• Setup and maintenance of at least one versioning system, GIT, Bazaar, CVS, SVN, etc.
• familiarity with open source tools.

Linux Systems Administration duties

We are a development, integration company.  As such this person will be the go to person for all maintenance and administrative related tasks but as a team player should also be willing to learn how to program and work closely with developers to help understand their issues and to help make their jobs easier.

Duties will include such issues as:

• Setting up a postgresql or mysql database
• Tunning a server to get better performance from a database
• Installing mail servers or configuring mail servers
• Setting up a CMS or e-commerce system like Magento, Spree, Drupal, Joomla, OpenERP, SilverStripe, WordPress, etc.
• Helping and supporting developers when they are stuck on administrative related issues.
• Setting up and maintaining a Samba Server
• Setting up an Asterisk PBX
• Occasionally post articles related to our work.
• be a team player and be willing to help on whatever else needs done be it helping with QA, development or whatever.

Key Characteristics for our Linux Systems Administrator.

This person should be someone who likes to learn how things work.  They have to be able to solve problems on their own and troubleshoot problems which may not be immediately apparent.

The Linux Systems Administrator must be someone who is willing to take responsibility to solve problems that others have not been able to solve, but also willing to take advise and to work as  a team player drawing on experience from his/her comrades.

This Systems Administrator should have good communication skills and listen so as to understand requirements.

The Systems Administrator person should be continually trying to improve his/her skills.

This Linux Administrator should pay close attention to detail and double check his/her work even though the tasks may seem simple or redundant so as not to frustrate production, security or delay things for our staff or customers.