System Administrator (New York, NY)

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System Administrator

Overview
Cinchcast is currently looking to hire full time System Administrator to join our highly talented, motivated and ambitious team.
About Us
Cinchcast provides cloud-based software and services for creating, distributing, measuring and monetizing voice-based content. We are a funded start up company based out of midtown Manhattan.
Our technology allows anyone, anywhere the ability to host a live web broadcast or recorded event using any telephone. Our network streams, archives and hosts millions of events every day. Cinchcast is a privately held company. Please visit www.cinchcast.com to learn more.
Our company culture is best described as highly collaborative, challenging and is an exciting place to work. Some of the perks include:
• Good camaraderie between engineers – a great place to learn!
• Great new office space with lots of goodies in the kitchen
• Great opportunity to have an enormous impact at a fast growing start-up
• Your choice of hardware and software to get the job done
• Health insurance benefits
• Top-notch compensation + stock options
Responsibilities
• Assist in managing physical and virtual server environments
• Continuously assess the health of the production environment via performance and application monitoring tools.
• Maintain multi-server load balanced web farm running on Windows Server OS and IIS web server. Perform daily system and application monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs for issues.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements both in our data center and on Amazon cloud.
• Manage and maintain backups for all systems and applications.
• Occasional Help Desk work helping internal employees or customers.
• Assist with the development of standards and procedures, and making technology recommendations.
• Takes part in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Assists in the investigation of end issues/complaints and assists with the delivery of an appropriate remedy and response

Experience
5+ years experience in Systems Administration
5+ years experience with Hardware & networking

Required Skills

• Experience monitoring performance of web applications.
• Linux System Administration
• Nagios expert
• Advanced knowledge of installations, upgrades and troubleshooting of Windows Server 2003, 2008 & Web application Servers.
• Innovative in the industry, Don't accept status quo
• Linux Skills: Chef, Puppet, Node, MongoDB, Redis
• Knowledge of tuning and getting best performance out of IIS6 and IIS7 servers in load balanced environment.
• Familiar with Web Application architecture & design
• Solid understanding of networks and their relation to end users.
• Solid understanding of server administration and management.
• Understanding how to leverage CDNs
• General comprehension of scaling out web applications
• Excellent organization skills, project tracking abilities, communications skills
• Detail oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A desire to learn and improve skills and knowledge
• Experience managing SQL Server databases or MYSQL is a plus.
• Knowledge of Telephony and Streaming Media is a plus

Education
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field preferred (relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)

REQUIRED
We would like to get to know you better. Upon submitting your application, we ask that you please answer the following prescreen questionnaire (you can include it as your cover letter).
1. Do you think Windows or Linux is more secure and what persuaded you to choose this OS?
2. What is the size of GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: cinchcast.com? (entire page size)
3. How many servers do you currently manage and how many have you managed at one time?
4. Why do you think you are the right candidate for Cinchcast?

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Location: New York, NYCompensation: -Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.Please, no phone calls about this job!Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.Posting ID: 3704549021

Posted: 2013-03-26, 9:59AM EDT

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