URL: http://elevatorup.com...

Elevator Up is expanding our team and looking for a Network/System Engineer. This person will be analyzing our infrastructure and then carry out proposed changes in order to directly influence the company’s managed hosting services. We host various Universities, Hospitals and SaaS infrastructures across the country with a datacenter in Holland and Chicago (looking to grow).

Using tools such as virtualization and the plethora of open source technologies, this person will be the focal point of technical innovation for Elevator Up. Excellent candidates will have a strong emphasis on communication working with the business, developers, customers, and other engineers.

If you’re the type who nerds out on designing the infrastructure to support thousands of users and mission critical applications, we’d like to talk.

Responsibilities include

* Network Design and Administration
* Thorough understanding of today’s web infrastructure (http, SSL, DNS, proxying, mail)
* System Reporting and Monitoring
* Advanced Virtualization using Xen
* System/Network/Internal Security

Additional skills may include

* Application performance and scaling
* Windows administration
* Server virtualization experience with other technologies

Requirements

* Network/System administration 7+ years
* Linux administration 5+ years (particularly Debian/Ubuntu)
* Solid system scripting ability (e.g. bash, perl, python)
* Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking

A few things to know & chat w/us on

* How DNS works
o Setup fault tolerant servers
o Guard against DOS attacks
* Understand Network layers (primarily Layer 2 and Layer 3).
o Be able to implement a fault tolerant switching infrastructure
o Know how to pair public IPs to a NAT’d backnet, and report on traffic
* Understand what it means to administer an operating system
o Permissions, usage, logs
* Know to setup and manage Application Layers
o Manage Web Servers, Database Servers, Software Load Balancers
o Setup different failover models
o Setup different scaling models and can speed competently at Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
* Understand Mail
o How to distribute load
o Guarding against spammers
o Clear our name (IP and Domain) if we’re flagged as a spammer
* Security
o Understand loopholes at each level and how to guard against them
o Know how to detect intrusions
* Appreciate Customer downtime know how to avoid it and articulate what happened if needed
* Infrastructure monitoring
* Resource utilization reporting


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* Twitter – @elevatorup
* Facebook – /elevatorup/
* Email – hireme@

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Quick Update - this position has been now filled :-)