System Administrator (Cloud Platform)

Short company description

At Ericsson you’ll have a unique opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what’s possible. To create never-seen-before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You’ll be challenged. But you won’t be alone. You’ll be part of a team of like-minded innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to build what comes next. At Ericsson you can be an explorer, a change maker and a force for good.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or comparable qualification;
• At least 3 year experience in the administration of applications in a professional web environment;
• Good knowledge of administrating Enterprise Internet facing systems;
• Good knowledge of web security and understanding of networking protocols and services like TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS, DNS, Load balancing.
• Good knowledge of system administration and process automation through the use of scripting technologies on Linux systems;
• Understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and basic object oriented programming concepts;
• Good knowledge of relational databases - MySQL Server, Postgres and LDAP
• Good knowledge of load balancing and cache services : Varnish, HAproxy;
• Good Knowledge of search engines: solr, sphinx;
• Experience/knowledge of Hadoop, Pentahoo would be considered a plus
• Good knowledge of web servers and technologies: Apache, NGINX
• Knowledge of automatic deployments using Docker or VisualOps

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for the coordination, management, delivery and execution of aaS Broadcast Operations, ensuring delivery of Broadcast services to customers, possibly on customer site, including proactive and reactive services to meet planned and late delivery content as agreed within the WLA. The role provides services to both Managed Broadcast Operations as well as Broadcast Professional Services.

• The Cloud System Administrator is responsible for the administration of all technical aspects of the AWS and MS Azure cloud solution of the OTT platform;
• Installation of the application components and the patching and/or application of hotfixes required to maintain the stability of the platform;
• Manage the performance and availability of the systems;
• Provide support for production and pre-production environments including day to day maintenance tasks required to maintain the stability of the platform.
• Performance tuning and monitoring;
• Create and maintain system operation manual and procedural documentation;
• Keeps professional contacts with other IT groups;