• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject an advantage
• Exposure to managing, handling, installing and connecting computer hardware components such as servers (HP, IBM, Dell), network devices (switches, routers, firewalls), and storage arrays
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting high availability Windows and UNIX /Linux based environments.
• Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Experience working with virtualization technologies and systems (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V)
• Experience in configuring and managing monitoring systems (incl. Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS, Netflow)
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Proven working experience with network switches, firewalls and large WiFi deployments (Cisco, Unifi).
• Configuring and maintaining VPN technologies and configurations an advantage (OpenVPN, IPSec)
• Working with VoIP systems including SIP and IP telephony solutions (Avaya, 3CX)
• Knowledge of mass storage systems including SAS, SATA, RAID arrays, volumes, LUNs, iSCSI, NFS and SMB protocols, and Block and File level Snapshot technologies.
• Experience working with high availability DAS, NAS, SAN architectures (e.g., HP MSA, QNAP, Synology)
• Knowledge of Information Security best practices and applying them to large and distributed systems• Solid Cloud experience, preferably in Azure, Office 365 environments