Leader Technologies in Albuquerque, NM is currently looking for a system administrator and programmer. You will be working with a small team to maintain approximately 40 Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) and Mac OS X servers located at multiple sites. All server management is performed from our Albuquerque office; this position does not involve travel to our remote data centers. You must be comfortable with command-line and remote administration, and you must have experience working in environments where service availability is a top priority. You will be expected to take on primary administration responsibility after approximately 3 months, and the other team members will be your backups.

This is generally not a helpdesk job, but you will also be responsible for providing basic installation and desktop support for a small network of Windows and Mac workstations.

You will be building and maintaining infrastructure that supports key business processes for dozens of Leader Technologies customers. This is a high-availability environment (99.9%+ uptime), and glitches or outages are visible to thousands of people. The ability to plan changes thoroughly and a careful attention to detail are vital.

On average, you will be expected to spend 2–3 hours a day on ongoing server administration, and there will be periodic larger projects. The remainder of your time will be spent working on programming projects under the direction of senior developers. You need to have a basic grasp of general programming. Typical projects will include building web sites using Perl-based CGIs and PHP, building custom reports with SQL, and building monitoring/data analysis systems for server and software processes. If you have more advanced programming skills, we have many more programming-intensive projects that you will have opportunities to participate in.

This job will require occasional work outside regular business hours and on weekends.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Ongoing maintenance of servers located at multiple sites, including patching software, installing updates, etc.
• Monitoring and ensuring 99.9%+ availability of services
• Ensuring security of servers and data
• Installation/configuration of new servers several times per year, including physical installation of machines, cabling, etc.
• Backup maintenance and planning
• Installation/configuration of Windows and Mac workstations
• Tracking software license keys and hardware resources
• Building, installing and updating custom RPM packages (open source packages and in-house software)
• Evaluating and recommending purchases of hardware and software solutions
• Working with developers to ensure the environment supports in-house workflows and customer needs
• Setting up scripting and other automation for administration and developer workflows
• Development of internal and customer-facing web sites under direction of senior developers
• Development of custom reporting, monitoring, and analysis software under direction of senior developers
• Other programming projects based on your abilities and interest

Important Skills and Experience

• Command-line and remote administration of Red Hat-based Linux systems
• Command-line and remote administration of Mac OS X systems (server and client)
• Experience configuring apache, postfix, sendmail, MySQL, PostgreSQL and other common open source packages
• Solid understanding of DNS configuration, particularly using ISC BIND
• Management of IP networks, including routing, firewalls, and VPNs. Experience with Linux, Cisco IOS, and Juniper ScreenOS are particlarly helpful.
• Linux server virtualization, including command-line setup and management of virtual machines. Xen is preferred, but experience on other Linux-based platforms is likely to be relevant.
• Management of machines in a clustered/SAN environment, particularly Red Hat cluster suite and LVS
• Basic experience building web sites using CGI and/or PHP
• Basic reporting and data extraction using SQL and Perl/PHP
• System scripting using bash, Perl or Python

This is an exciting opportunity to work with many large enterprise-level technologies without all the red tape of working at a typical large enterprise. The ideal candidate would be an experienced system administrator who has additional interest and some experience in programming.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate system implementation or updates to new and existing customers
• Manage projects to completion
• Set up and attend monthly status meetings with customer base
• Work with customers to establish quarterly and yearly goals
• Build a Quarterly Business Review (QBR) document for each customer
• Help customers access and analyze their customer data
• Enhance our PowerPoint presentations
• Build Case Studies and White Papers
• Contribute web content
• Attend sales calls with Account Managers
• One or two days of travel per month (very little overnight travel)

Skills and Experience

• 2+ years in direct customer/account management
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Outgoing and engaging personality
• High-tech industry experience and email marketing expertise a plus
• Very well organized with strong attention to detail
• College degree in associated field, marketing, business, public relations preferred

Professional Attributes

• Must be responsible and accountable for the work provided
• Must have an outgoing and engaging personality
• Ability to attend high-level business meetings with confidence
• Ability to arrange and attend business lunch, light entertainment
• Ability to listen well and relate that information to Leader developers

This is an excellent opportunity to get into high technology sales. We provide a unique product to sell. There is very little competition, so the candidate will not be competing with hundreds of other companies and sales people selling the same product. We have an established set of customers that are excellent references. We have a dedicated group of technical engineers to support the customer. We offer a great work environment and provide an arena in which to succeed. This job is for goal setting, hard working, success oriented people. If you are driven to make money, if you are a hard working individual, if you know how to CLOSE sales, then we would like to talk to you.

For the candidate selected, you will find this to be a great place to work backed by excellent products and services. We offer a base salary commensurate with candidate's experience + Commissions and Bonuses. 

Requirements: 

• Candidate should have 2 or more years of successful, business to business sales experience. 
• Candidate should have a college degree. 
• Candidate must be self motivated and be self managed. 
• Payment history required

If you are interested in continuing your sales career with this great opportunity please apply online.

Please Fax resume to Leader Technologies (505) 856-1550, mail to or drop off at 8809 Washington NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113 or e-mail to jobs@leadertech.com, with subject line indicating position sought.