Senior Linux System Administrator

This is an excellent work from home opportunity for self driven, motivated Systems Engineers to be part of the Systems Engineering Team at IDT in an extended staffing model and provide 24/7/365 support for mission critical services. 

If you are highly motivated, ambitious, ready to learn and make a direct impact, this is your chance! Our employees are considered critical and vital to our continued growth and success. 

The individual in this role will design, deploy, troubleshoot and perform core system administration functions to manage critical infrastructure across the organization!

Join us!

Required Skills:

• Minimum 8 years of real hands-on experience in Linux system/Windows/ VMWare administration, G-Suite administration and storage administration tasks and troubleshooting.
• Candidates should not be limited to only one of the following but should have a combination of the following skills.
• Experience with Linux server builds, administration and troubleshootingExperience with Microsoft server OS and Active Directory administrationVMWare infrastructure administration and configuration.
• Experience with AWS cloud will be highly desirable.
• Experience with RAS tools such as Citrix and Parallels RAS servers administrationExperience with G-Suite administration and setting up SSO with G-Suite and Active Directory.
• Experience with building and managing high throughput database servers on Linux.
• Familiarity with open source tools (Chef / puppet / ansible / kickstart) for automation, installation, monitoring and configuration management Configuration and management of DNS, Mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP), and SFTP services.
• Good scripting skills with Shell, Perl, Python, etc.
• Server backups and data recovery tools and technologies (NetBackup)
• Experience with installation / patching of operating systems, application software
• Deep knowledge of underlying hardware subsystems / technologies and troubleshooting experience.
• Deep knowledge of storage subsystems and technologies.
• NAS & SAN storage management with a focus on NetApp, EMC and Pure storage.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, must be able to interact within the team and other technical groupsF5 (DNS/Load Balancer) knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Installation, configuration, maintenance, and trouble-shooting Linux / Windows based systems, VMWare, Citrix and NAS/SAN infrastructure.
• Working in US time zones. Individuals are expected to be part of on-call rotation for 24/7/365 support.

About us:

IDT is a multinational provider of cloud communications, PoS systems, unified communications, and financial services for businesses and consumers, headquartered in New Jersey. We are listed on the NYSE, employ 1600 people across 20+ countries, and have revenues over $1.5 billion. 

At IDT, we understand the challenge of being apart from those who matter most, so we create products that enable people to keep in touch and share resources worldwide.

We are not ”another big IT corporation” – we encourage and support any in-house entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business action.

It seems like you are interested if you are here, so let’s chat!