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UNIX System Administrator

Company Affinity Internet
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 12/13/2006
Description

Affinity Internet (www.affinity.com) is committed to empowering its customers to write their own Internet success stories. The company provides more than 180,000 web professionals and small businesses the tools to develop, maintain, market and support their web presence, making the Internet a useful and powerful driver of their businesses.  Affinity’s brands include ValueWeb for ecommerce hosting, web design and online marketing solutions and Gate.com, the cutting-edge Windows and UNIX web hosting service.  Affinity's co-brand and private-label partner programs enable leading service providers and Internet brands to extend their value proposition to include feature-rich web site, ecommerce and online marketing services and web applications. Affinity’s services are supported by its customer service “success guides” – knowledgeable consultants with a passion for serving small businesses and a dedication to ensuring their growth and success.  We offer a competitive compensation package that includes stock options, 401K, medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance and paid time off.

POSITION PURPOSE: To work as part of a team to develop and maintain UNIX web hosting computer systems and report system statuses to management in both verbal and written formats.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Coordinates with Technical Support to resolve all system related customer issues

·         System monitoring, maintenance, and configuration on several variants of UNIX.

·         Installation of equipment

·         Install/monitor/administer new Internet access servers running several variants of UNIX.

·         Create trouble ticket and escalate appropriately.

·         Use ticketing and notification procedures.

·         Handle spam and security issues

·         Might have specialized focus (i.e. backups, mail systems, etc.)

·         Write PERL, Shell and/or C scripts to automate administration tasks

 

Experience/Skills

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience:

·         Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or similar technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience (4 years).

·         RHCE desirable

·         Familiarity with system administration on several variants of UNIX, including, but not limited to, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and BSDi.

·         Skill to diagnose and remedy serious UNIX-related problems and/or failures promptly and effectively.

·         Ability to perform periodic software and hardware system updates, upgrades, backups and security patches

·         Desire and patience to work with other members of the staff to fix and improve existing services as well as add new ones.

·         Ability to install, configure, optimize and maintain network services including but not limited to Apache, Bind, Sendmail and FTP

·         Experience with Shell scripting, PERL or C is required

·         Working knowledge of SQL, LDAP desirable

·         Strong organizational and communication skills

 

Equipment Operation:

·         Networking hardware, Sun, Intel PC  

           

Physical Requirements:

·         Must be able to lift 50 pounds

·         Must be available for on-call duties

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
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