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Production Systems Administrator

Professional Services Team (Pavia, IT)

If you are looking for a fun, dynamic work environment, Funambol is the company for you. Funambol is the leading mobile open source project. We are also the leading mobile cloud sync and push email solution used by mobile operators, portals, device manufacturers, service providers and software companies around the world.

We are looking for a technical support analyst to join our operations team. The candidate must have genuine enthusiasm for technology and working with other people. This is a unique opportunity to work for one of the leading commercial open source projects in the world.

Major Duties. We are looking for a mid-level systems administrator with experience managing production systems. You will help maintain, secure and grow our production operations for both internal systems and those of our customers. While this is not a front-line customer support position, you will be expected to interact with our customers as necessary. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to gain valuable production experience in several technology areas (networking, operating systems, database, web and application servers). Periodic on-call duty as well as night/weekend work as necessary.

Responsibilities include:

Analyzing, planning and maintaining our production systems as they scale in capacity and complexity
Network monitoring and analysis
Database management, including sizing, monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting
Creation of automated reporting and monitoring tools/scripts
Routine systems maintenance and administration
Debugging service issues
Train and mentor junior technical staff

Required Technical Skills and Experience:

A minimum of 2 - 4 years of experience in one or more of the following roles: Systems administration; Production administration; Database administration
Hands-on experience with *nix environments
Solid troubleshooting skills, ability to quickly diagnose customer problems
Familiarity with web/application servers (Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, JBOSS, etc), web presentation technologies (HTML, JavaScript, Flash) and/or Database Management (Postgres, mySQL, Oracle)
Computer Science degree preferred
Programming experience with Perl/Java/C++ programming a plus
Non-technical requirements: Solid communication and written skills; desire to learn and the ability to quickly acquire and apply technical knowledge; attention to detail; strong work ethic; team player; ability to thrive in a fast-moving, dynamic environment

Please send us your resume at jobs@funambol.com. Please make sure your resume addresses the basic requirements. No phone calls or agencies, please.