Linux Systems Administrator - Atlanta, GA

CONTACT ME TO APPLY: brstultz@cisco.com

Cisco seeks an experienced Systems Administrator to join our team.

This person will Support networks and servers used for product development and maintenance activities. Provide user and system support for engineering desktop/laptop systems, workstations, servers and terminals. Assist in the designing, building and improvement of lab networks. Specify, purchase, install and maintain network equipment such as cables, printers, tape drives, etc. Install and configure UNIX/PC system software, modifying where necessary. Perform server back-ups and restores as required, potentially at any time. Set up experiments on networks, servers or systems to isolate and identify failures. Resolve user setup, network, server and software problems using a wide variety of communication vehicles. Document network topologies, equipment locations and processes. Process requests from user community. Troubleshoot and install programs and scripts to manage the computing environment. Ensure systems specification documents show compliance with industry standards.

*Member of a team that ensures systems support at all times, on-call either rotational or as required.

Complete duties of a higher complexity and can act as Team Lead. Provide complete server, PC and lab network support for all designated networks. Design new lab networks and increase capacity/performance on existing networks. Lab test bed setup for new product teams. Inventories of lab network assets. Installs and maintains new routers, switches, hubs, patches, comservers, and terminals, R&D lab backbones. Troubleshoot lab network problems. Configure internetworking equipment interfaces, routing and access lists.

Upgrades lab networks with additional processors, interfaces and memory, updates to current OS. Provide lab network capacity planning and design of new networking topologies. Provide feedback on capacity planning and budgeting. Assist in the introduction of new products and process into the lab environment.

REQUIREMENTS:
Must have 5+ years experience in a Systems Administrator role.
Extensive Unix experience
Experience in a RedHat and Solaris environment
Product Support experience is highly desired.

CONTACT ME TO APPLY: brstultz@cisco.com