[HIRING] Junior System Administrator - East Palo Alto, Ca

We are hiring a junior system administrator to join our healthcare start up. This role will report to the Director of Operations and will be a key contributor to network operations.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively investigate systems and issues, and find solutions aligned with management and business expectations.
• Identify trends and problem areas and share this information with the team manager to improve processes and streamline releases.
• Manage the maintenance, setup, and modification of change request repositories and tools.
• This role requires high-level knowledge of the LAMP stack.

Qualifications:

• Measure twice, cut once mentality.
• A Self-starter, ability to find solutions independently.
• Be familiar with OSI layers 1-7.
• Knowledge of Red Hat Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL servers.
• Posses problem-solving and analytical skills, ability to triage and execute tasks independently with minimal need for supervision, not be afraid to ask questions when required.
• Available for a reasonable on call schedule, and ability to work flexible hours and support night or weekend work as needed.

Beneficial but not required:

• Bash and Perl skills.
• Experience with with Puppet configuration management.
• Experience and understanding of reporting protocols and monitoring tool syslog, snmp, ntop, iftop, htop, etc.
• Experience supporting Windows Server 2008R2 operating systems.
• Vendor certifications a plus.

DM me if you are interested.