Systems Administration
- Affinity Global
- 5 - 10 years
- Mumbai
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
Type of role: Systems Administration
Work Location: Mumbai
About the Job:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional in the systems administration domain. This is a key role that requires strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Server and Infrastructure Management: Maintain, upgrade, and manage servers, software, hardware, networks, and tools necessary for efficient operations.
- Server Installation and Configuration: Administer the installation, configuration, and optimization of servers, including web servers and database servers.
- Automation and Process Improvement: Handle automation of services and processes to improve system efficiency and reliability. Should have knowledge on CICD, GIT, SVN.
- Performance Monitoring: Configure and monitor various performance measurement and monitoring services to ensure a healthy and efficient infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Diagnose and resolve problems quickly, troubleshooting issues and outages that may occur. Should have knowledge on using tools like nmap, tcpdump, tcpflow, iptraf, netstat etc.
- Security Implementation: Ensure security through access control, backups, firewalls, and compliance with relevant regulations.
- Documentation: Regularly document all processes, incidents, technical insights, manuals, and IT policies related to the infrastructure and inform involved teams.
- Support for Developers: Provide support to developers by offering data insights, reports, analysis, and actionable recommendations related to the server infrastructure and application processes.
- Research and Innovation: Research and develop innovative solutions to enhance the architecture and create a better infrastructure based on industry trends.
- Linux Expertise: Possess strong familiarity with Linux operating systems, especially Debian, Infrastructure as Code, and applications, should have strong knowledge on shell scripting.
- Monthly Patching and Security Fixes: Perform monthly patching of Linux infrastructure to address security issues and vulnerabilities.
- Security Reporting and Monitoring: Deliver regular reports to security leadership on remediation efforts, implement continuous monitoring to measure and report on control areas like patching, hardening, audit and log configuration, and authentication mechanisms.
- Information Security Hardening: Follow information security hardening guidelines such as CIS to ensure a secure infrastructure, Hardening Apache, nginx, MySQL, PHP applications etc.
- Vulnerability Management: Assist in identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities, and work with asset owners to prioritize patch remediation, should have knowledge on using tools like Nmap, Nikto, and other pen test tools.
- Risk Assessment: Classify and prioritize the risk of vulnerabilities, considering mitigating factors and impacts of internal and external threats.
These responsibilities collectively aim to ensure the smooth and secure functioning of the infrastructure, maintain system performance, and protect against potential security risks.
Required Skills:
- 4+ years of industry experience handling *nix-based infrastructure as a System Administrator or Dev Ops.
- Supporting and administrating Linux (Debian and RedHat based distributions).
- Ability to work in multi-datacenter, hybrid cloud, multi-server, large-scale environment.
- Knowledge of Google Cloud (GCP), AWS and other cloud technologies, cloud-computing, containerization, clustering, and virtualization technologies.
- Expertise in handling database servers, networks (LAN, WAN), with good knowledge of TCP/IP, with experience on Kernel upgrade.
- Strong expertise with Shell scripting. Python, Perl, or other scripting languages is a plus.
- Experience with DevOps - Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other such automation tools.
- Experience with handling distributed data-storage & computation platforms like Cloudera Hadoop, Apache Spark is a plus.
- Best understanding on security best practices with managing backup processes for servers and databases. Exposure to data encryption, IAM role management, network firewall administration, security audit processes, scheduled network scans etc.
- Experience handling installation and optimization of: Apache Webserver, Nginx, Bind/DNS, Nagios, iptables, LDAP, VPN, Munin, SVN, and GIT.
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science with passion for server administration with any *nix certification is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to tailor technical information for different audiences. Excellent teamwork skills, ability to self-start, share insights, ask questions, and report progress.
About Affinity:
Established in 2006, Affinity.com is an advertising technology holding company which ideates, invests, and develops businesses around the intersection of technology, media, and advertising. It today operates 6 different business units mCanvas, Siteplug, VEVE, Opinary, Yield Solutions and NucleusLinks. We solve unique digital advertising and media problems globally by building scalable technology and creating proprietary and thrilling ad/media experiences for brands with its key focus on User Experience.
We are a company which realizes that its employees are its most important assets & hence we strive towards providing a conducive work environment, which is flexible, professional, prospering, stable, innovative, and truly international in scope. If you wish to build a career with a thriving, fast-paced and cutting-edge technology company that offers personal & professional growth, we sure do want to hear from you.
We are a bunch of creative and technology-driven mavens that are on a mission to make ads engaging. We pride ourselves on creating unique, compelling stories, and telling them with an interactive style.
Job Classification
Industry: InternetFunctional Area / Department: IT & Information Security, Role Category: IT Infrastructure ServicesRole: Cloud System AdministrationEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Affinity GlobalLocation(s): Mumbai
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