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From GTALUG

WorldGaming (www.worldgaming.com) is a social networking site for console video gamers (Xbox, PS3, …) to meet one-another, talk smack, schedule games, and participate in head-to-head games and multi-player tournaments for pride, cash and prizes. We are a startup located in Toronto, well-funded, with a growing community in North America and Europe, and expansion plans into Central and South America and Asia. We are looking for a seasoned Linux Administrator to join our team and help us continue to mature and grow our environments.

At WorldGaming you will work with other smart, passionate, collaborative and fun people who share your passion for technology. As the Linux Administrator you will be responsible for day to day management of the WorldGaming systems (production, staging, QA, development and corporate IT) . This includes Linux Servers (CentOS), Load Balancers, NAS, switches, routers and firewall gear. The software stack includes Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL and Terracotta. You’ll work on clustering and HA solutions, performance tuning, 24x7x365 (or x366 during a leap year) systems in a b2c space.

Requirements

• Must have enterprise hands-on experience building, configuring and maintaining a high-availability enterprise Linux environment utilizing Apache, Tomcat, SSL and load balancing

• Knowledge of networking architectures and protocols and troubleshooting tools, ethereal, Wireshark, etc

• Network and system performance tuning

• Comfortable running cables, racking/building servers, and troubleshooting hardware issues.

• Experience managing network devices including switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, etc

• Has implemented Bcfg2, Cfengine or puppet in a production environment

• Familiar with VMware/Xen virtulization

• Experienced with Postfix/Sendmail in HA/High Volume environment.

• Familiar with Bugzilla, SVN, Nagios, Cacti, shell scripting, LDAP and Kerberos. We are open source friendly.

• Experience with databases, namely PostgreSQL

• Participate in the on-call rotation for after hours incident resolution

• 5+ years of progressive experience in system administration in a distributed Unix/Linux environment

• RHCE would be an asset

• Experience with cloud computing would be a definite asset

• A College diploma or University degree or relevant job experience in computer science or engineering

At WorldGaming, you will get the chance to work alongside other tremendously talented individuals. We are very passionate about our work and we are looking for the same kind of people to join our team. We are also very much a startup. This means flexible hours, a fun office environment, and lots of challenges. Transportation is easy as we are located in the King West/Bathurst area.

If you are a self motivated person with a non-stop motor that can adapt to things on the fly and will thrive in a fast paced environment, we'd love for hear from you! Contact us at jobs@worldgaming.com.