Linux Systems Administrator - Grave Shift (Downtown)

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QuadraNet, Inc. -- the largest dedicated server and colocation provider in Los Angeles for small, medium, and large businesses has an open position available in our Support department.

You will be working with a company that manages thousands of servers and 8 datacenter pods in downtown Los Angeles. Some of our clients include well known Internet brands such as BitTorrent Inc, FRS Energy Drink, TrailerAddict, and many more that we are unable to divulge as well as a large amount of small and medium sized businesses.
We cater to a diverse client base who are both local as well as on the other side of the globe. You will have the opportunity to work within 60,000 ++ square feet of datacenters.

We are seeking multiple individuals who love working with servers in both the system administration and physical hardware worlds involved with a datacenter. This position will give you the opportunity to grow your experience to real world production servers that are serving live websites and customers.
You will be working with Apache, MySQL, BIND, FTP, Lighttpd, Nginx and so much more.

This position requires experience with the following technical aspects:

- Willingness to work during grave-shift hours.
- Installation, configuration, tweaking, and performance optimization of Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, and MySQL
- Must have a strong grasp of system administration via SHELL and NOT be reliant on control panels.
- Security-centric mind set when performing upgrades and system administration.
- Experience with tracking down security holes, patching them, and then cleaning the machine to continue operations.
- Working knowledge of cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk and Interworx
- Heavy working knowledge of CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD
- Understanding and experience working with DNS, A records, CNAME records, Reverse DNS PTRs, etc.

These positions are for Linux system administration. We are looking for individuals with heavy experience of working with *nix from a command line and under a strict time line to resolve issues to prevent extended service outages or resolve multiple client issues quickly.

Please place 'TURING' in the subject line of your response so our filters can identify you as a human being. If your resume is light, please detail your freelance Linux system administration experience in your targeted cover letter.

This position also requires the following personal traits:

- Strong organizational mind set
- Ability to think and plan ahead and prioritize
- Ability to multi-task several high priority tasks
- Strong communicative skills in both written and spoken word
- Ability to self-manage and self-delegate tasks

These are immediately available positions, if you have applied before apply again! We are not a call-center! Location: DowntownCompensation: W2 + BenefitsPrincipals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.Please, no phone calls about this job!Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.Posting ID: 3635328394

Posted: 2013-02-22, 5:11AM PST

Edited: 2013-02-22, 5:11AM PST

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