You are on page 1of 4

Infrastructure (Linux administration) management Client Interface Role Good Knowledge on Configuring H/W in Linux environment on

LVM/ RAID configurati

Moderate Database Knowledge Good exposure to Clustering and Networking Good documentation skills Excellent written and communication skills. Ability to work independently and with a team. Can learn and implement new technologies quickly and effectively 3 5 Years of relevant experience. Responsible for Linux Platform and applications Responsible for managing multiple RHEL/Centos/Fedora/Ubuntu Installation & configuring of test & production servers including clusters Sound knowledge of RedHat Cluster, DRBD, Shell Scripting In depth knowledge of kernel patching and compilation Expertise in system hardening Experience in forensic procedure on compromised systems In depth experience in filesystem internals Experience in building kickstart setup for automated installation Exposure to software load balancers Expert in IPtables firewall Experience in configuring Spamassissin and qscan Strong in system fine tuning and optimization Strong in ISCSI & NFS Monitoring services through the use of monitoring tools for vital system statistics . Should have experience in installing and configuring Nagios/Zabbix/OpenNms/Bigbrother Experience in collaborative troubleshooting by terminal session sharing Adequate Knowledge of Patching and resolving the security based problems.

Knowledge of Citrix, Xen, VM ware and remote server support is an added advantage. Trouble shooting server based problems with root cause analysis. Experience in handling customer base environment of more than 50 servers will be essential. Good Understanding of trouble shooting & Server based Commands General Knowledge of Storage, Networking and backup devices Experience on the following layered products: BIND with views setup PHP Tomcat with IIS and Apache integration TCP/IP Apache & FTP vsftpd Strong concepts of TCP / IP Wrappers In depth Knowledge & Experience of managing complex tasks like : File / Directory Permissions Selinux Logical Volume Manager OS & layered product Installation Patch Management Planning & Installation Should have experience in building YUM servers Managing backup in products like EMC/ Symantec Networker storage management. Exposure to troubleshooting and config management of min 4 of the following

technologies: MySQL with Master/Slave setup PostgreSQL Qmail/ Sendmail/ Postfix /ClamAV Xen/ Vmware Control Panel Plesk/ Cpanel/ Dotnet Panel CVS SVN Strong hold on Basics (Add on Advantage) ______________________________________________________________________________ ____ Good communication skills (both Verbal and Written) Understanding of TCP / IP & OSI Layers Understanding of Routing & Routed protocols Hands on experience on Routing and Switching. Configuration of EIGRP,OSPF and BGP and their troubleshooting Understanding of MPLS and its functionality will be an added advantage.

Working knowledge on Sniffer tools like Wireshark & Ethereal, traffic ana lyzer tools like Netflow, Syslog Experience on Network Monitoring tools like PRTG, Cisco Works, Solarwinds, CA tools eHealth & Spectrum

Checkpoint & ASA Firewall Administration and implementation of contexts, A CL & NAT LAN /WAN Topologies & Technologies Subnetting, FLSM, VLSM & Supernetting TACACs and Radius implementation ACL, VACL , Route Maps & PBRs implementation L2 / L3 VLAN and Inter VLAN Routing VTP, STP, PVSTP, MST and their functionality High Availability and Load Balancing - HSRP / VRRP / GLBP IPSec and GRE / DMVPN Over IPSec on Routers and Firewall

IPS/IDS implementation and configuration

Load Linux on your box - it does not matter which distribution you use. Diff erences between different Linux distribution is even less than you think. My per sonal recommendation is Ubuntu. However, if you can make Debian work on your har dware, that is the way to go. Learn the package management of the distribution of your choice. By this I m ean, you should be able to install, remove, reconfigure and locate the packages needed by your distribution. Learn how to use the vim or the emacs editor Most of the PCs today live in a network. Learn what a ip address is, what a gateway is and what a subnet is. Having a mental image of how the traffic flows in a network helps when you are trying to solve a network problem Learn to write bash shell scripts Learn how to use the awk, sed, cut, sort, uniq, tr and other small Linux she ll utils Write your own backup script Learn how to use rsync, wget, ssh You should have read (or at the least have glanced through) all the guides a nd how-tos available at tldp.org Learn to read the syslog file Learn what a daemon is and which daemons provide what services. Learn the log files that each daemon creates and how to read them Learn to configure samba and postfix. Both of these softwares appear to be q uite complicated, but come with very extensive documentation. Another plus point of knowing them well is that you will find it easier to find freelance work. Mo st small companies want to have a mail service and a file sharing service and af ter the flood of worms specifically targeted towards Windows NT and 2000, have s tarted to look at Linux for their needs Learn how the email is actually delivered to a recipient, what is the differ ence between a mbox and maildir format and other intricacies of the email system . Use the postfix that you have configured to play around and see how different parts function. This page has a list of email standards that you might find usef ul to read Learn to use tcpdump, ethereal and nmap. Learn to configure Apache - specifically how to setup virtual hosts, what th e core options in Apache are and how modules are added into Apache. Learn to troubleshoot samba, postfix and apache

You might also like