What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linux System Administrator position at Amdocs?
Who are we?
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.
In one sentence
Responsible to administer the operations of computer systems related to UNIX, Linux & Windows operating systems, servers, virtualization and Cloud technologies.
What will your job look like?
- Perform OS tuning, understand networking, perform user management, and perform security hardening, review OS logs as needed and perform system backups.
- Familiarity with VMWARE / ESXi installation, vCenter installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
- Partner with the other infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and resolve related issues.
- The successful candidate will have experience with scripting, particularly in shell scripting. Experience with PERL, SH and CSH variants, KSH required, more the better.
- Understanding of hardware and software RAID configurations and building is desirable.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting shared storage (Fiber Channel and iSCSI).
- Experience integrating, testing and managing complex virtualized systems.
- Be able to leverage optimization techniques to maximize the efficiency of all computer systems.
- Candidate will be expected to evaluate new technologies to meet business needs or to solve business problems.
- Lead Root Cause Analysis, Lessons Learned and prevention processes to provide high standard deliverables that meet SLA (Service Level Adherence) and ensure CSAT (Customer Satisfaction.
All you need is...
- Requires a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college with 3-7 years’ experience.
- Experience with administering Red Hat Linux.
- VMware and vSphere experience.
- Experience with Clustering Technologies on Red Hat Linux.
- Performing Linux and Unix Systems Administration duties.
- Ability to install Operating System, software packages and patches.
- Ability to work inside Datacenter, Vendors. Knowledge of hardware administration. Knowledge of at least one of the Virtualization technologies.
- Any of the platform certifications, such as: RHEL, VMware.
- Any of the Virtual Certifications such as: VCP
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies on AWS / Azure / GCP.
Why you will love this job:
- You will be working on market leading software for the telecommunications industry.
- You will be provided with a rare learning opportunity within an experienced team, to work on high-end technology.
- You will be working within an extremely diverse and multi-cultural environment, and a fast growing and dynamic organization.
