Do you have a passion for working in a NOC environment with Linux servers?

InMotion Hosting is a growing web hosting company based in California with offices in Los Angeles and Virginia Beach, Virginia. We provide shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting to a wide variety of customers with growing network of 500+ Linux and a few Windows servers. We are seeking Linux Support Team Lead to guide a small team of junior systems administrators and assist in system monitoring, incident resolution, and data center operations.

What Will I Do?

• Lead a team committed to providing highly reliable service and strong technical expertise
• Mentor and develop team members
• Provide server maintenance including hardware upgrades and  systems replacements in a data center environment
• Rack and cable servers
• Capacity planning, Hardware life-cycle, costs and inventory control
• Troubleshoot web applications and assist customers in selecting plans to match their needs
• Monitor systems and pro-actively resolve and/or escalate alerts and/or trouble tickets
• Meet shared quality and production standards for the systems group
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Do You Have What It Takes?

• Passion for Linux and data center operations, interested in career development
• 2-3 years managing or leading small teams of system administrators
• Good customer service skills and an honest desire to help people
• 1-2 years in a help desk environment or systems group, experience in web hosting or with hosting technologies a plus
• 1-2 years experience working in a data center environment for Linux servers
• Data center skills and experience in installing/moving equipment and cabling
• Strong technical troubleshooting ability and critical thinking skills
• Familiarity with the Linux/Unix commnd line and a desire to become an expert
• Confident in installing and configuring Linux/Unix (Centos/RHEL preferred)
• Previous experience installing and/or configuring Apache, PHP, Mysql (Sendmail, Exim, cPanel/WebHost manager, Java/Tomcat, Ruby on Rails are all excellent pluses)
• Experience developing/debugging/deploying simple and/or complex web applications
• Good understanding of DNS and basic network troubleshooting
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies like Xen, KVM, Virtuozzo/OpenVZ

To Apply: email coverletter and resume to Click Here to See Email Address