Linux System Administrator
Location: Corporate Office – Scottsdale, Arizona or Toronto, Ontario
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Equinox Payments is one of the largest US providers of electronic payment solutions and value-added services at the point-of-transaction. The company delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. Equinox is currently looking for a Linux System Administrator located in Scottsdale, Arizona or Toronto, Ontario.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Researching and testing solutions to new requirements
- Working as a part of a team environment to resolve ongoing issues
- Communicating in a clear concise manner
DESIRED SKILLS:
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Motivated to complete tasks
- Ability to prioritize and manage tasks
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Attention to detail in documenting work
- Experience working with Linux or other Unix
- Knowledge of Unix system primitives such as syscalls, IPC, cgroups and
namespaces
JOB DUTIES:
- Ensuring fault tolerance of services and databases via automation
- Deploy services in production environment
- Improving monitoring systems and dealing with incidents
- Reviewing, proposing and implementing security controls
- Proactively review and interpret alerts and provide timely response, analysis
of the incident - Proactively suggest solutions to new and ongoing projects and issues
- Work with development teams to resolve issues related to their systems
- Proactively test and develop technologies to improve or replace services
- Work as part of the incident response team, providing 24/7 coverage of security
and service faults
SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES USED:
- Ubuntu Linux: installation, hardening, operation, maintenance
- Standard UNIX environment tools: vi, tmux, ssh
- Go programming language
- bash scripting
- PostgreSQL databases
- Trouble-shooting Java based applications
- Tomcat servers
- Version control: git,cvs
- Configuration management
- Network trouble-shooting tools: tcpdump/wireshark, netstat, netcat
- System/application trouble-shooting tools: strace, openssl
The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description are not comprehensive and are subject to change without notice. Providing an employee with a copy of this job description does not constitute a guarantee of employment, nor does it guarantee employment for any specific duration.
The physical demands described here are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these duties.
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