<p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><img alt="" src="/logo/0000000233/260_PMO.JPG" style="height:300px; width:882px" /></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Senior Systems Engineer</span></span></strong></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><em>Pearson is a global education company that helps people around the world to make progress in their lives through learning. With a rich heritage that combines 150 years of experience in publishing with the latest learning technology and digital services, we help people to learn whatever, wherever and however they choose.</em></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><em>We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education.</em></span></span></p> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <h1 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Engineer – Linux</span></span></span></strong></h1> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">The Systems Engineer is primarily responsible for managing all aspects of configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting the production servers and handling requests and problem escalations from Service Desk and other departments. The engineer determines the severity of issues (triage), prioritizes issues, performs diagnosis of system and software components to identify root cause, and takes action or recommends corrective action for resolution.</span></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">The engineer will work with other networks, database, software & quality engineering teams and technical product managers and vendors to clearly state problems, troubleshoot, diagnose and/or resolve complex technical issues.</span></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <h1 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Accountabilities / Responsibilities</span></span></strong></span></h1> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Participate in the setup, design and administration of Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu Servers.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Identify opportunities to create and deploy automation frameworks and methodologies</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Systems monitoring & performance tuning.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Respond to System alerts from monitoring systems in a timely manner</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">On Call Support of servers & flexibility of hours on occasion for releases, upgrades, and maintenance windows.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Administrate DNS & LDAP infrastructure.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Diagnose and rectify OS and application configuration problems.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions and tools including clustering, load balancing, etc</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ensure change management processes, incident and problem management processes are followed</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Apply patches and upgrades on Unix/Linux systems as needed</span></span></span><br /> </p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Challenges</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Participate in 24x7 on-call support</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Working with counterparts in other global teams</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">24x7 Availability in case of emergencies</span></span></span><br /> </p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES</span></span></strong></span><br /> </p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">4+ Years of Linux/Unix Administration Experience.</span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Strong proficiency with mainstream Linux distributions, such as Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu</span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Experience using Bash to automate repeatable work Experience with Security best practices and remediation.</span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Sound knowledge on network protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, HTTP, FTP.</span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Experience on working with multiple cloud providers such as AWS, vCloud Director and OpenStack.</span></span></span></span></span></li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or any other equivalent qualification</li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">RHCE (Redhat Certified Systems Engineer)</span></span></span></li> </ul> <p><br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Educational & Professional Qualifications</span></span></span></span></span></strong><br /> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Should have very good verbal & written communication skills.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Should be able to work independently with minimum supervision from onsite locations.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Should be willing to work on extended and irregular hours when required.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Strong self-starter, motivated to help TEAM in their deliverables</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Should be able to carry out expected tasks without supervision</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Right attitude, a passion for customer service and good interpersonal skills.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to make sound decisions in critical situations</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Administration </span><span style="background-color:transparent">of Apache HTTP web server, Tomcat and Oracle/BEA Web Logic.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Experience on Linux Operating System hardening mechanisms.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Experience in administering Windows operating systems will be an 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