Unix Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES

Wear many hats: system/database administrator, deployment and automation engineer, performance analyst, service architect, capacity planner, tools developer, performance monitoring expert, project planner and technical evangelist for The New York Times news production systems.
Help build solutions from complex requirements and support the reliability of these solutions in production settings.
Perform operation/production support, including incident management and root cause analysis of system and application failures and engineer solutions.
Identify opportunities for improvement; design, develop and implement solutions by scripting to streamline manual tasks and/or to increase server and application reliability and performance.
Manage systems and projects with little direction.
Keep up-to-date on the latest technologies, relevant applications and tools and evaluate their application and/or challenges to our systems.
Help introduce new technologies to improve our processes and products displaying flexibility and initiative to enhance production workflow and the ability to quickly learn multiple skills in an ever-changing environment.

REQUIREMENTS