Roles and Responsibilities:
ESCAP is looking for a Linux System Administrator (with experience with Centos or Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in order to setup Linux servers (x86 32 and 64 bits) in our Datacenter and in the Cloud.

Tasks include:

• setup and configuration of servers
• build redundant, highly available production systems using backups, load balancing and automatic rollout of updates
• deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure
• Document security, disaster recovery, network topology, and maintenance procedures
• Training other members of the IT team

Qualifications:

• Experience with Linux System Administration is required.
• Knowledge and experience with iptables is required.
• Experience in network monitoring and SNMP is required.

• Should be able to setup Samba, NFS, ssh, DHCP, SMTP, cron jobs etc efficiently and using config tools.

• Experience with Linux integration into a Windows network (Active Directory) a plus

• Experience with Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat a plus
• Experience with Java web applications administration a plus
• Experience with python scripting a plus
• Experience with Xen/VmWare a plus

Good oral english required, as the working language is english.

Start Date: as soon as possible

Compensation: based on experience

Company Profile:
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region. With a membership of 62 Governments and a geographical scope that stretches from Turkey in the west to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati in the east, and from the Russian Federation in the north to New Zealand in the south, ESCAP is the most comprehensive of the United Nations five regional commissions. It is also the largest United Nations body serving the Asia-Pacific region with over 650 staff.

Contact:
If you are interested, please send your resume (plain text, PDF, RTF or ODF formats only) as attachment to dm.bangkok AT yahoo.com (This is not a recruitment agency’s mailbox. It has been created in purpose by UN-ESCAP to filter our spam.)

IMPORTANT: In the body of the email, please include the MD5 hash of your attached resume for it to be considered.