USA Technologies, Inc. Malvern, PA, NASDAQ: USAT), a leader in cashless transaction processing, unattended point-of-sale terminals and network services, is seeking a Systems Administrator UNIX/LINUX. USATs culture is informal, personable, exciting, challenging and rewarding where each employees contribution is critical. USAT deliberately provides high quality benefits for the employees whole families because it recognizes that its most valuable asset is its people.
Summary:
Systems Administrator with a focus on the UNIX/LINUX infrastructure. This position is primarily responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of the UNIX/LINUX server environment including Sun Solaris (9x, 10x, etc.), Linux Redhat, and VMWare. Also backup systems, and 3rd party vendor systems, supporting both production and business information technology operations.
Requirements:
Specific Responsibilities: • Designing, configuring deploying, and maintaining a UNIX/LINUX server environment • Responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all server operating systems, security and network connectivity. • Ensure adherence to all IT and department policy, processes and procedures. • Develop and maintain accurate documentation of procedures, processes, server topology, system configurations and standards across enterprise environments generating status updates of assigned projects and issues. • Monitor system performance and availability. Resolve system / server performance and hardware issues. • Establish and maintain appropriate system backup procedures. • Maintain server security architecture and access control. • Coordinate testing, rollout, and deployment of critical operating system and software patches/upgrades for servers and desktop systems. • Recommend new hardware/software to maintain a high standard of performance and to meet user growth requirements. • Serves as lead technical troubleshooter on complex server hardware and application issues. Provide second level end user support. • Participate in an on-call rotation that provides 24x7x365 support of critical systems. • Assists with other IT related special projects as determined by business need.
Required Skills/Experience: • Bachelor degree in MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. • Minimum of 5 years of UNIX/LINUX System Administration experience. • Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining a UNIX/LINUX server environment. • Security experience hardening and managing public web servers running Apache. • Must possess a thorough knowledge of all areas of UNIX/LINUX administration, deployment and troubleshooting • Must possess the proven ability to solve complex problems • Good understanding of networking infrastructure and operation • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with customer services, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills. • Experience developing end user communication and rollout plans
Desired Skills/Experience: • Experience in card processing industry and understanding of financial systems • Ability to handle frequent change and remain composed in stressful situations • Oracle, MySQL, POSGRES • VMWARE • Networking, CICSO, Load balancers, Firewalls, switches, etc. • Project management experiences
