Position Overview

Xaxis is a global digital media platform on a mission: to connect advertisers and publishers with audiences, and to make the web more personalized. That means putting the right messages in front of the right audiences at the right time.

The Linux Systems Administrator is critical in accomplishing this mission. The Xaxis platform uses cutting edge technology and needs talented individuals to build and maintain its infrastructure. Ideal candidates will be problem solvers who are ambitious and passionate about technology.

The Linux Systems Administrator should also have a working knowledge of Vertica and MariaDB/MySQL.  In this role, the individual is also responsible for database back-up and recovery verification, performance measuring, capacity planning and automating DBA tasks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor application performance and availability
• Add server capacity to clusters to support growth
• Recoverability - Creating and testing Backups
• Availability - Ensuring maximum uptime
• Performance - Ensuring maximum performance
• Provision test environments to support research and development
• Execute software releases to production and test environments
• Automation of common processes and metric collection using scripts
• Respond swiftly to security vulnerabilities by applying patches or workarounds
• Address L1/L2 issues and debugging problems for engineering handoff
• Create technical documentation in Confluence for peers and engineering
• Be available off hours for on-call rotation and production changes

Qualifications

• Red Hat RHCA certification or equivalent experience
• VMware VCP certification or equivalent experience
• Vertica certification or equivalent experience
• MySQL/MariaDB certification or equivalent experience
• Proficiency with bash scripting
• Good scripting skills with Python, Ruby, or Perl
• Experience with modern automation frameworks (Salt Stack, Ansible, etc)
• Administration experience with the following technologies is a plus:
  • Couchbase and MongoDB
  • Apache Tomcat and JBoss
  • Apache Storm and Apache Kafka
  • Hortonworks Data Platform
  • AWS EC2 and Elastic Load Balancer
  • Nagios, Ganglia, and Graphite

We offer 5 days work week, an attractive remuneration package and excellent career development opportunities. Interested parties, Please send your resume stating your present and expected salary together with your cover letter to Click Here!

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About Xaxis

Xaxis is the world’s largest programmatic audience company that connects advertisers to audiences across all addressable channels. Through the expert use of proprietary data and advertising technology along with unparalleled media relationships, Xaxis delivers results for over 3,000 clients in 46 markets across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East. Advertisers working with Xaxis achieve exceptionally high return on advertising spend through the company’s proprietary media products, as well as through its specialist companies, Light Reaction and plista. For more information, visit www.xaxis.com.”

Xaxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s small yet highly dynamic and efficient media market means it gets to operate with agility. Its internet and digital penetration continues to grow year-on-year, and has the highest smartphone penetration in Asia Pacific at 87%, while tablet ownership clocks in at 57%. Hong Kong’s digital market boasts a healthy mix of local, regional and global players, providing new opportunities in the media space.

If you want a future in media and communications, and believe in Hong Kong’s belief of “work hard, play hard”, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than Hong Kong, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

GroupM is the leading global media investment management group serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, and proprietary tool development. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people, and is increasingly working closely for the benefit of clients with WPP’s data investment management group, Kantar. Together, GroupM and Kantar account for over 50% of WPP’s group revenues of more than $20 billion.

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