Linux Systems Engineer/Administrator (LS-01)

Answers Corporation (NASDAQ:ANSW), creators of Answers.com and WikiAnswers, seeks a Linux Systems Engineer/Administrator for our Jerusalem Office. Candidate will focus on developing and maintaining system administration scripts for our production server environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system administration scripts to automate support and management of our production environment
• Perform Linux Systems deployment, maintenance and administration
• Monitor system activity, performance, and growth
• Troubleshoot technical issues
• Support, trouble-shoot, monitor our 24x7x365 production environment

Requirements

• At least 3 years proven in-depth scripting experience for Linux systems management
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent desirable
• Excellent UNIX scripting abilities - Perl, Shell, Awk, Python, etc.
• Experience with Apache, MySQL, and JBoss desirable
• Must have excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to support a high availability production environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both face-to-face and on the phone
• Fast learner, attention to detail, good team player
• Ability to also be on call during evenings and Fridays
• Excellent English required

Launched in January 2005, Answers.com is an advertising-supported, free website that has become one of the leading information sites on the Internet. Our newest web 2.0 community initiative, http://wiki.answers.com is currently the second-fastest growing web site in the US, and is ranked as the second largest Q&A site.

Please send CVs to sharag (at) answers (dot) com.
Only appropriate candidates will receive a reply.