Openings for Senior Linux System Administrator, Malaysia

Senior Linux System Administrator

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - Wisma MCA, Jalan Ampang

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Linux System Administrator you will be spending approximately 50% of your time on our standardization and automation activities and 50% on other operational activities. Specific areas you will be working on:

 

•      Automation of configuration management using tools like puppet, setup scripts, etc

•      Defining, evaluating and implementing business continuity policies and practices,

       for example back-ups, simulated failure drills, redundancy, etc

•      Expanding the use of monitoring tools like Nagios or Zenoss.

•     (Overseeing) regular maintenance activities to keep our operational environment

       fresh,clean and fast.

Requirements:

•        Absolutely fanatical about Linux.

•        Mature person. This is not a junior role!

•        Virtualization expert, preferably KVM.

•        Strong experience with configuration management, preferably Puppet

•        Experience with scripting languages, preferably Perl or PHP

•        Comfortable working with high traffic server environments

•        Extremely familiar with (almost) all of the following: Apache, Postfix, iptables, MySQL,  

         DNS, VPN, intrusion detection and Linux security

•        Familiar with SCRUM and agile development methodologies

•        Strong communicator in the English language

•        Team worker who thrives in an international and culturally diverse environment

 

Our recruitment process is designed to ensure that we find the best talent possible for our positions and secondly, that there is a good cultural fit in all aspects between company and potential employee.

 

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

 

•       Once you submit your application, you will receive a talent test which you can

        complete at your convenience.

•       Based on the results of the talent test, short-listed candidates will receive

        an invitation for an interview and will also receive a self-assessment questionnaire.

•       The actual interviews will be done by key members of our operations and management teams

        and either take place in one of our offices or are conducted via phone or skype.

•       This will be followed by reference checks with your previous employers.

        We will ask you to set up the appointments between us and your references.

•       The last step of the process is the actual job offer

 

Sam Media Sdn Bhd

Sam Media is a young and fast growing provider of mobile content services to consumers world wide. We market our services via online ads and TV commercials.   With yearly revenues of 15 million USD, 50 million unique visitors per month and over a million successful billing transactions per month, we are considered one of the leading mobile content services providers world wide.   Sam Media employs approximately 70 people and has offices in Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi and Jakarta. The Amsterdam office manages the services and marketing for our European markets and the offices in Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi serve markets in the Asia Pacific Region, Africa and the Middle East.   The Kuala Lumpur office is also the center of all our IT development and operational activities.   Sam Media operates a variety of websites, landing pages and jump sites that attract approximately 50 million unique visitors per month. We serve our content from a Linux based global server network containing approximately 20 servers.   The major domains that the IT Operations Team works on are configuration management, virtualization, database management, performance monitoring and business continuity. We are in the process of standardizing the infrastructure and automating a lot of the tasks that are currently done manually with the ultimate goal of having a robust operational environment that can handle pretty much anything that's being thrown at it. Ref URL : http://www.jobstreet.com.my/jobs/2013/4/default/10/1906191.htm?fr=J