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Linux Systems Administrator - Xaxi

GroupM Limited

  • Company Industries：Media/Publishing/Printing

Job Information

  • Post Date：2017-05-16
  • Location：Not Specified
  • Salary：Salary negotiable
  • Employment Type：Full Time, Permanent
  • Job Function：Technical Writing  Others  

Job Description

Overview

GroupM's new technology platform unit, [m]PLATFORM, is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator to join our team in Hong Kong.

[m]PLATFORM is an advanced technology suite of flexible media planning applications, data analytics and digital services. The platform will improve advertisers’ ability to use audience-defining insights from hundreds of data sources to find and communicate with their consumers across all media.

[m]PLATFORM makes it possible for media planners at GroupM agencies to use the most detailed consumer data to achieve results for their clients. It is supported by a team of data scientists, technologists and digital practitioners from across GroupM specialist companies.

The Linux Systems Administrator is critical in accomplishing this mission. [m]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 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

  • Manage data center: accept h/w deliveries/rack/power servers/build servers
  • 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
  • Setup and management of the HK Vertica, Hadoop, Couchbase, Storm, Kafka Galera DB clusters
  • Setup and management of the HK ESXi env
  • Setup and management of the HK NetApp units
  • Potentially get involved with the HK network setup if interested
  • Be available off hours for on-call rotation and production changes
  • Setup and management of the HK ESXi env
  • Setup and management of the HK NetApp units
  • Potentially get involved with the HK network setup if interested
  • 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
  • MySQL/MariaDB certification or equivalent experience
  • Vertica certification or equivalent experience a plus
  • Proficiency with bash scripting
  • Good scripting skills with Python, Ruby, or Perl
  • Experience with modern automation frameworks (Ansible)
  • Administration experience with the following technologies is a plus:
    • Couchbase
    • 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! 

 


About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, and Essence, 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 performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. 
Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
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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.

Company Info

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.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMWorldwide on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

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