[vox-jobs] [fwd] Service Engineer, Sunnyvale, $80 to 120K

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Mon Jul 26 16:09:14 PDT 2010


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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:29:43 -0700
From: jim
Subject: [sf-lug] [JOB POSTING] Service Engineer, Sunnyvale, $80 to 120K


SERVICE ENGINEER @ Yahoo!

-Full Time / Contract-To-Hire
-Location: Sunnyvale, CA
-Salary: $80K to $120K DOE 

Responsibilities
??? Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health
and performance of the assigned Yahoo! Property 
??? Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and
monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment 
??? Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as
contributing to their overall design
??? Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and
generally improve the operability and maintainability of our systems
??? Identify and triage outages, monitor and remediate systems and network
performance
??? Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate
our constant growth
??? Function as a key member of a cross-functional team to address new
product deployment, system performance, capacity planning and SLA
compliance.
??? Available to Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager
rotation

Minimum Job Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, BSEE or similar experience
Extensive system administration background
Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application
and network-level troubleshooting ability
Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Apache, performance tuning concepts, and web
applications
Experience using scripting languages to perform complex automation in a
large-scale environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working with development teams

Preferred Job Qualifications:
5+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
5+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP
background a plus)
Experience with network designs, protocols, and troubleshooting.
Strong programming skills in one or more of: C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java
Experience with SQL and commonly deployed database systems
Experience with high volume websites and deploying services to
international audiences  


To apply email your resume to contact at wildcog.com

-- 
Kirill Elistratov
Wild Cognition
(415) 377-8835
http://wildcog.com
"it's like recruiting but not as lame"

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