[PLUG-JOBS] Linux System Administrator opportunity with Rentrak

[Miriam Lea]

Do you...

   - Have a passion for solving technical problems, from the network to the
   application stack?
   - Want to build and manage solutions that provide infrastructure for
   deploying, managing, and maintaining hundreds of servers?
   - Desire to design and implement automated systems infrastructure?
   - Prefer to understand how something works, versus simply being content
   with knowing it does work?

Team members of Rentrak's Infrastructure Systems Group design and support
mission-critical systems running a complex application stacks. Our work
group functions as a collaborative cross-trained unit. All team members
utilize their system administration experience, knowledge, troubleshooting
skills, and scripting abilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate
all operational aspects of Rentrak's platforms.

As administrators of the central technical infrastructure for the company,
we place a strong emphasis on providing excellent customer service to a
broadly defined range of customers, including our internal users,
developers, operators, business managers, and external clients. If you are
looking to be an invisible cog in the machine, look elsewhere; if you are
ready to make a difference to your coworkers and earn your daily thanks,
come join us!

Required Technical Skills:

   - 5 + years experience as a System Administrator in a Linux based
   environment
   - Demonstrated experience with configuration management, provisioning,
   monitoring and trending, package building, firewalls and general support of
   developers
   - Experience in enterprise level storage and network technologies a plus
   - Experience in large database operation environment a plus.
   - Experience in Big Data, software development environment a plus
   - Experience in service management process and practices such as ITIL a
   plus
   - Familiarity with the following is a plus: CentOS, VMware,
   configuration engines like CFEngine or Puppet, Active Directory and LDAP,
   syslog and log analysis tools like Splunk, monitoring tools like Nagios or
   Tripwire. BIND, Git, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Postfix, NetBackup, switch and
   firewall configuration.

and must also present strong soft skills for a team-oriented environment:

   - Experience and acute sense of issues/project ownership
   - Excellent internal customer service
   - Positive attitudes and outlook
   - Holistic problem solving
   - Aptitude for root cause analysis
   - Can-do attitude
   - More collaborative than heroic in problem-solving
   - Enough experience and maturity to accept that you do not know
   everything and welcome the opportunity to learn new things on a daily basis
   - Help teammates by asking probative questions when given a vague
   request


Responsibilities:

   - Function as a technical generalist within a team responsible for the
   overall health and performance of our systems
   - Work with development teams to design, implement, troubleshoot,
   monitor, and improve corporate projects
   - Function as self-motivated issues/project owner coordinating,
   gathering, and research for resources to accomplish responsibilities
   - Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Rentrak headquarters are in beautiful Portland, Oregon, near scenic
mountains, beaches, and rivers. Our office has convenient access to public
transportation and the freeway.

We offer a friendly team oriented workplace and our benefits are among the
best in the business including matching 401K program, medical, dental,
vision, disability and life insurance, wellness programs, tuition
reimbursement, an extremely generous vacation package and more.

Rentrak proudly supports Affirmative Action. Rentrak is an Equal
Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion
of background investigation and pre-employment drug screen. Rentrak
participates in eVerify.

To apply, please e-mail Miriam.Lea at rentrak.com or click on the link below:

https://apply.hrmdirect.com/ResumeDirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.aspx?req_id=enc-15.698445578556984&source=111436-CS-4217





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*Miriam Lea*| Talent Acquisition, Human Resources

o  503.284.7581| d  503.331.2837 | m  503.309.4934 | Miriam.Lea at rentrak.com
*RENTRAK* | www.rentrak.com | NASDAQ: RENT

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