| Description: |
Yale University offers a dynamic and challenging work environment, competitive market-rate salaries and benefits, and opportunities for career growth for IT professionals in support of the teaching, research, and administrative mission of a world-class global university. Information Technology Services is seeking a talented Unix/Linux/Vmware System Administrator to join the technical team responsible for the University’s enterprise virtualization infrastructure, email, web, and other critical Unix and Linux servers. POSITION DESCRIPTION: · Ensure performance, reliability and security on the University's enterprise Unix, Linux and Vmware ESX systems, including web, email, application servers, and load balancers. · Install, configure, document and maintain Unix and Linux operating systems, Vmware ESX infrastructure, applications and system management tools. · Provide performance tuning, capacity planning, automation and documentation for systems and applications. · Collaborate as a knowledge leader with developers, database administrators, service providers and data center operations staff. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: Bachelor's degree plus six years experience supporting production Unix systems in a 24/7/365 environment. Extensive knowledge of and experience with Unix operating systems, utilities, tools and applications. Demonstrated ability to write scripts in Shell, Perl or other administrative scripting languages. Demonstrated ability to develop and document complex procedures. Preferred: Production Linux experience; experience managing a multiple Unix platform environment; experience with automated install and configuration management systems such as Cfengine and Kickstart; experience with server virtualization, load-balancing and clustering technologies; experience with Vmware ESX 3, DRS, HA, Vmotion, and related tools; experience with Sendmail, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Bind, Horde, MIMEDefang, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, OpenLDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, F5 Load Balancers,Tripwire, Nagios.
APPLICATION:
For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at http://www.yale.edu/jobs - the STARS req ID for this position is 7712BR . Please be sure to reference source code IEDUC when applying for this position. We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University -- one of the country's great workplaces. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, paid time off, family and educational benefits, retirement benefits, extensive recreational facilities, and much more. Yale University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Yale values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students and strongly encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented minority groups. |
