[vox-jobs] Google engineering opportunities--Site Reliability team

[Catherine Hansen]

Hello LUGOD!
 
I'd like to make you all aware of some excellent Google 
engineering opportunities available now in several 
US and international locations.   The Site Reliability team
is the most mission-critical and visible engineering team
at Google, because we're responsible for making sure that the
vase Google infrastructure needed to support user-facing 
services is up and running 24x7x365.   We're looking for
UNIX/Linux adminstration experts with coding and networking
experience.  We need team leaders, individual contributors,
and Directors.   
 
It's a great time to join Google--we've recruiting some of the
best and brightest talent, and already have several industry
luminaries working for us.  We're growing by leaps and bounds
and expanding our global presence.
 
I'm attaching a few job of our job descriptions, below.  Please
feel free to contact me directly if you're interested or know 
someone who is.  
 
Hope to hear from you!
Best,
 

Catherine Hansen
Google.com Engineering

Leadership Staffing Team 
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway 
Mountain View, CA 94043 
Direct: (650) 253-3083 

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Unix System / Applications Administrator, Google.com - Mountain View
 
This position is based in Mountain View, CA. Also in Kirkland, WA, Santa
Monica,
NYC, Zurich, Dublin, and Bangalore.
 
Are you:
 
    * ...a seasoned Unix jockey, database wizard, performance specialist,
networking guru, and code slinger all rolled into one?
    * ...looking for the next cool problem to solve, in a fast-paced and
engineering-driven environment?
    * ...into writing scripts which perform practically the entire job you
once held earlier in your career?
    * ...entertained in your off hours by taking things apart just to see
how they work? Are you successful putting them back together when you're
done?
    * ...excited by the idea of making Google even faster, more reliable,
more available, more - well, Googly?
 
If you answered "Yes" to more than three of the above questions, you may be
our kind of System Admin! Keep reading.
 
Google.com team members are involved in every facet of Google's production
site. From design issues to troubleshooting, from performance analysis to
capacity planning, from DNS to networking to application [mis]behavior,
Google.com engineers are ultimately responsible for making sure that Google
always works. We take that responsibility very very seriously, but if you
think you've got what it takes then we're eager to talk with you.
 
Working in the Google.com team, you will wear many hats for Google's entire
production site: first responder, performance analyst, service architect,
system/database administrator, capacity planner, tools developer, monitoring
expert, and technical evangelist.
 
In this role you will need:
 
    * Expertise in UNIX system administration, including configuration,
troubleshooting, and automation.
    * Fluency in at least one scripting/coding language.
    * Experience running high-traffic web services, including requirements
and capacity analysis, service configuration, monitoring and
troubleshooting, and change management.
    * Strong understanding of IP networking, including familiarity with the
functionality, operating, and failure modes of common networking devices,
and the ability to analyze network behavior, performance and application
issues using standard tools like tcpdump. 
 
Requirements:
 
    * 3 - 5 years experience with UNIX systems administration (5-15 years
for Senior position).
    * Solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python.
    * Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience.
    * Experience in a high-volume or critical production service
environment.
    * Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band
requests.
    * Tack-sharp analytical abilities.
    * A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
    * Fluent written communication and unusual verbal agility are strong
assets.
    * SQL experience a plus, MySQL a plus.
    * Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus.
    * BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
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Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com - Mountain View
 
Position available in Mountain View, CA. Also in Santa Monica, Dublin, and
Bangalore.
 
We're looking for a highly technical, hands-on Engineering or Operations
Manager to lead a team of 4-10+ Google software engineers and systems
administrators for the Google.com group. The Google.com teams are directly
responsible for Google's stellar uptime record, and act as the guardians and
custodians of Google's user-visible services. In this leadership role, you
will be responsible for ensuring that Google users can always reach and use
all of the services under your team's care.
 
Requirements:
 
    * Very high technical competence and strong academic record.
    * 3-10+ years of relevant experience managing software development
and/or operations teams.
    * 4+ years of relevant hands-on technical experience, and a record of
individual technical achievement.
    * Deep understanding of networking; understanding of how to isolate,
diagnose, and resolve service delivery components (service delivery
components include servers, networks, and applications); be familiar with
the functionality, operating, and failure modes of key networking devices
(routers, switches, bridges, firewalls, hardware load balancers); be able to
identify networking as the potential cause of a service issue using
server-resident tools to generate this data (tcpdump, ping, traceroute,
etc.); familiarity in interpreting the output of these tools; familiarity
with common network topologies, protocols, and tools; have some notion of
common network security exploits -- and their remedies; understanding of
troubleshooting at the packet level.
    * Skilled in leading projects, especially in deploying live end-user
systems.
    * That rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal
agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of
technically-astute teams across the company.
    * BA/BS in Computer Science preferred; MS/PhD a plus. 

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