Linux Systems Administrator 2

CCBill is an online payment services provider used by more than 30,000 websites globally that supports the needs of both new and established businesses in the ecommerce and online space. CCBill has been offering industry-leading solutions since 1998.

The Linux Systems Administrator 2 is a front-line operations position focused on supporting CWIE internal infrastructure for customer-facing products. LSA2 will be responsible for handling day-to-day operations tasks such as system maintenance and patching, server builds, troubleshooting, user management, performance monitoring, and other administrative tasks. The LSA2 will also serve as an escalation point for Level 1 System administrators (LSA1) on their team, for customer-facing operations centers. They may additionally be leveraged as additional hands for project tasks as needed. This position involves participation in a weekly rotating on-call schedule.

Location: EU/US

Working hours: Monday-Friday, US shift.

Key Job Requirements: 

• Daily operations tasks during scheduled shift
• Participation in weekly on-call rotation
• System maintenance and patching during scheduled maintenance
• Daily operational care and feeding of the various server environments 
• Troubleshooting, triage, and problem resolution of issues in all environments
• Assistance with scheduled code releases as needed
• Management of load balancing equipment and configurations as needed
• Leveraging configuration management tools to maintain and update the environment
• Ensuring platform integrity by following appropriate compliance and security standards
• New server builds utilizing corporate virtualization infrastructure
• Participation in project work under supervision as needed
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Key Skills and Qualifications: 

• 2-5 years’ experience managing Linux hosts in production environments.
• 2-5 years’ experience with VMWare virtualization products in a production environment.
• 2-5 years’ experience with Apache webservers, Apache Tomcat, Java, Perl
• Experience with event management, incident handling, and problem resolution
• Must have a high technical aptitude, be highly motivated, and be ready for a challenge
• Strong communication, documentation, and analytical skills.

Desired skills:

• LAMP stack experience
• Exposure to Puppet, Chef, or other configuration management tools
• Experience with source control (git/svn/cvs or similar)
• Exposure to Jenkins, Travis CI or other automation tools
• Familiarity with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other SQL databases

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a highly innovative and creative team, in a great working environment.