[vox-jobs] [fwd] Sysadmin job [San Francisco]

[Bill Kendrick]

I've posted this to:  http://www.lugod.org/jobs/ as well.
Enjoy!  Remember to contact Nate directly, not me! ;^)

----- Forwarded message from Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> -----

Bill,

We're an almost entirely Debian shop in the City, could use some good
Debian admins. If you could please post this to the site:

I'm looking for an advanced system administrator to work as part of a
UNIX/Linux system administration team in San Francisco at Looksmart. The
position's job description very closely follows the SAGE System
Administrator 3 job description.

Applicants can email their resume to nate at campin.net or
ncampi at looksmart.com and feel free to ask me any questions. I'd actually
recommend the position to friends in the field.

Systems Administrator 3 (Solaris/Linux) 
Job Summary:

This posting is for an advanced systems administrator. The ideal
candidate will have significant experience in the implementation of
scalable networks of heterogeneous systems and in working as a member of
a large team. S/he will have demonstrated ability in automating systems
administration tasks and authoring policies and procedures that support
24x7 operation. This position includes off hours, on-call
responsibilities.  

Responsibilities:
- Ensure the reliable, correct operation of production services with
  24x7 uptime 
- Implement scalable, multi-architecture network based services 
- Write automation tools for the maintenance of said systems 
- Work with development groups as a partner to meet company goals,
  identify solutions to problems and proactively seek improvements in
  reliability and performance of LookSmart products 

Required Skills:
- 5 or more years of experience as a systems administrator in a large,
  heterogeneous environment, including at least 2 years experience each
  as a systems administrator in Solaris and Linux environments
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing
  purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making
  presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with
  upper management
- Independent problem-solving, self-direction
- Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for
  example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and
  configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing
  third-party software
- Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system, including paging
  and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device
  drivers do, and filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical
  partitions)
- Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing
  environment concepts; can configure NFS, NIS, NT domains; can use
  nslookup or dig to check information in DNS; understands basic routing
  concepts
- Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (e.g., Perl,
  shell)
- Ability to do debugging and modification of C programs
- Ability to setup and manage common network services (Apache, BIND,
  NIS, Sendmail)
- Familiarity with CVS or other version control systems (rcs, Perforce,
  SourceForge)
- BSCS or equivalent experience 

Desired Skills:

- Experience with hardware and software RAID solutions, 3rd party file
  systems and volume managers (e.g. Veritas), experience designing
  distributed file system architectures (NFS, AFS, DFS, etc)
- Familiarity with MS Windows systems administration concepts
- Participation in Open Source development projects

-- 
Nate

"2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2." 

----- End forwarded message -----

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