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Linux System Administrator

Posted: 2010.03.12
Location: Sacramento

We are looking for a full-time Linux System Administrator to help maintain, monitor and resolve any problems that may occur with our software and hardware architecture.

General Requirements:

• STRONG technical, analytical, communication and organizational skills
• Ability to MEET DEADLINES.
• Ability to work in and support a team environment
• Ability to work unsupervised, proactively identify problems and take appropriate action to produce or recommend solutions.
• Our primary technical location is in Sacramento, and our secondary location is in Los Angeles. Applicant must be willing to be on-call for emergencies and travel to either of these locations if the need arises.

Technical requirements:

• Ability to ensure configuration and security standards are deployed and documented on all Linux servers including reviewing and applying the latest security patches on a regular basis.
• Solid knowledge of server/array/network storage components, NFS.
• Ability to configure, compile, install and debug new software
• Ability to assemble, troubleshoot and repair hardware.
• Must be willing to work to meet deadlines as necessary.
• Must be able to *shift gears* quickly and work in a fast-paced, fluid environment
• Ability to keep focus on priorities

Must possess at least three years of advanced Linux system administration experience including:

• RedHat Linux
• Apache, fully compiling from source and configuring
• DNS
• Sendmail
• SMTP, IMAP, IPOP3 and other protocols
• MySQL (replication and clusters)
• BASH shell and SSH
• SSL
• DHCP, VPN
• Linux Routing protocols
• XEN virtualization experience a plus
• Linux Virtual load balancing experience a plus
• Experience with distributed files systems such as Gluster a plus
• Ability to manage an environment of load balanced applications across multiple servers (50+ servers)
• Good understanding of network protocols and network topologies
• Good debugging skills of network problems
• Compiling kernel and necessary modules/drivers from source
• Good knowledge of RAID setups and performance
• Advanced knowledge of redundant setups

Contact, Carl Ortega at 916-285-4018 or cortega@manpowersacramento.com.

Grid-Make Expert

Posted: 2010.02.23
Location: San Jose

• Job #: G91203
• Job Title: Grid-Make Expert
• Experience Level: 8+ years
• Location: San Jose, CA
• Start Date: Immediate
• Duration: Contract to hire / Contract
• No. Of Positions: 1

Requirements:
Desired Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in GNU Make
• Expert knowledge of GNU Make up to and including the last release, GNU Make 3.81
• Unstinting the subtle differences in capabilities and syntax between the various versions of GNU Make
• The ability to determine the best version of GNU Make and communicating this to the project managers so they can make a decision to change versions if required
• bility to build C/C++ software and debug and correct build errors
• Experience in running distributed builds using Make:
  • on a single machine using make -j
  • on multiple machines using Platform LSF lsmake
  • on multiple machines using Electric Cloud's accelerator

Responsibilities:

• The goal is to improve build speed through the distributed make capability of GNU Make and commercial tools on existing software projects. Tools used for distribution are:
• on a single machine using make -j
• on multiple machines using Platform LSF lsmake
• on multiple machines using Electric Cloud's accelerator.
• The projects utilize C and C++. Compilers are both native and cross compilers, either open source or commercial.
• Makefiles dependency graphs might need optimization in order to improve the ability of build tools to increase build speed through distribution. Expert knowledge of GNU Make is required up to and including the last release, GNU Make 3.81. Unstinting the subtle differences in capabilities and syntax between the various versions of GNU Make is required. The ability to determine the best version of GNU Make and communicating this to the project managers so they can make a decision to change versions if required is necessary. Ability to build C/C++ software and debug and correct build errors is required.

Contact: Mohammed Ahmed, mohammed.ahmed@msrcosmos.com, 904-425-5537 (Direct), 925-271-2713 Ext: 103

Production/Service Engineers

Posted: 2010.01.25
Location: Sunnyvale

Do you...

• Have a passion for solving technical problems, from the network to the application stack?
• Want to write applications that provide infrastructure for deploying software to, managing, and maintaining many thousands of servers?
• Envision the ability to work with large scale systems which require performing almost no tasks manually?
• Spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with knowing just that it does?
• Want to make real web applications and back-end systems faster, more reliable, more efficient?

Production Engineers at Yahoo! thrive on the scale and mission-critical nature of our complex search systems as well as the challenge that comes along with their operation. In this critical role, you'll utilize your rare combination of significant UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all operational aspects of Yahoo!'s revenue-critical search platforms. The ideal candidate is a technical generalist with skills ranging from production systems/network management to software development.

Responsibilities:

• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of our search platform
• Use a combination of open source and custom built tools to handle deployment, administration, and monitoring of a large-scale Linux environment
• Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems.
• Administer a massive mission-critical production environment, plus a large non-production environment.
• Work with development teams to harden, enhance, document, and generally improve the operability of our systems
• Responsible for the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth.
• Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• 4 years of work experience in Unix System administration.
• Experience working with datacenter technicians while provisioning servers and dealing with break fix of hardware.
• Experience providing tier1 production support for mission critical web applications.
• Excellent Troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application, server and network-level troubleshooting ability.
• Knowledge of Internet fundamentals. (e.g. RFCs, DNS architecture, best practices, security, etc.)
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and be an avid team player
• Must be a self-starter and quick learner with a passion for open source solutions.
• Have a passion for production support and possess a constant desire to excel and grow in the job.

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS.
• 2+ years experience with Linux, preferably with RHEL.
• Experience administering large-scale (1000+ server) production installations (ecommerce background a plus)
• Familiarity with web design and LAMP stack.
• Experience with network designs, protocols, and troubleshooting.
• Good scripting experience, Perl is a plus.
• Exposure to virtualization technologies.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML or PDF version of your resume to: Marina Moreno, Technical Recruiter, Yahoo, Inc. marinam1@yahoo-inc.com.

Flash Developer, Flash Development Lead and Flash Architect/Manager positions

Posted: 2009.12.15
Location: Mountain View & SF, CA and Eugene, OR

I need to fill several positions for one of the hottest and fastest growing social gaming start-ups in the Bay area. This is a general position description for:s

• Flash Developers
• Flash Development Leads
• Flash Architects / Managers

What we're looking for:

• Recent industry experience preferably in a fast paced environment with short project deadlines (e.g. startup, marketing, service environments)
• 5 years of industry experience in full cycle web application development (i.e. experience with both frontend, backend, and platform integration)
• At least 1 cutting edge deliverable on a project that they contributed to in a significant way
• Computer science degree a plus
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly (i.e. they have experience touching lots of different technologies)
• Required technologies
  • Expert level: AS3
  • Proficiency: PHP/ Java, Javascript, CSS, MySQL
• Required knowledge
  • Object oriented programming in Flash
  • Design patterns such as Model View Controller
• Game development experience (a plus)
• We are looking for Flash developers for both our Mountain View/San Francisco offices and our Eugene, OR studio

What you'll do:

• Build flash-based, multi-player, Web-based Social games
• Work hand in hand with a project team (engineers, game designers, producers) to deliver new games and features
• Contribute to the discussion. We invite ideas and suggestions from all corners. Our games are built in a collaborative environment.

Contact: Kenneth VanderHeyden, ken@grisearch.com, GIRARD/RICHARDSON Inc. Tel: 408.971.3000, Cell: 360.809.0909, Fax: 408.907.0009

Web Developer, Development Lead and Engineering Manager positions

Posted: 2009.12.15
Location: SF Bay Area, CA

I need to fill several positions for one of the hottest and fastest growing social gaming start-ups in the Bay area. This is a general position description for:s

• Web Developers
• Development Leads
• Engineering Managers

What we're looking for:

• Recent industry experience preferably in a fast paced environment with a short project deadline (e.g. startup, marketing, service environments)
• 5 years of industry experience in full cycle web application dev (i.e. experience with both frontend, backend, and platform integration)
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly:
  • Experience touching lots of different technologies
  • Demonstrated ability / knowledge of web application scaling
• CS Degree
• Required technologies
  • Expert level: Java / PHP, MySQL
  • Proficiency: Javascript, CSS
• Comfortable: flash AS3
• Required knowledge
  • Object oriented programming 
  • Design patterns such as model view controller
  • If primarily Java: tomcat
  • If PHP: PHP acceleration techniques, framework such as Code Igniter, CAKE, ZEND...

What you'll do:

• Build flash-based, multi-player, Web-based Social games
• Work hand in hand with a project team (engineers, game designers, producers) to deliver new games and features
• Contribute to the discussion. We invite ideas and suggestions from all corners. Our games are built in a collaborative environment.

Contact: Kenneth VanderHeyden, ken@grisearch.com, GIRARD/RICHARDSON Inc. Tel: 408.971.3000, Cell: 360.809.0909, Fax: 408.907.0009

Software Engineer

Posted: 2009.11.23
Location: San Francisco, CA

Us:

• Chomp, Inc. is a super early stage mobile start-up that is in stealth, funded by top Silicon Valley investors & working on the biggest mobile problem the world faces today. This is a problem that is emerging, but is already a billion dollar market opportunity.
• We are engineers, smart & aggressive... & have built and sold companies in the mobile space previously.

You:

• Will be working with the founders directly & will get in on this opportunity early!
• Smart, hungry and ready to make your mark. It would be a plus if you have a good sense of humor too. :-)
• Prepared to do whatever it takes to succeed. This means the non-sexy start-up stuff too... (IE SysAdmin, release work etc.)
• Passionate about building products that blow people away.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the back-end architecture of our platform.
• Solve complex problems in data aggregation.
• Writing and maintaining high quality, scalable code.
• Involved in QA testing.

Experience:

• Must be based in the SF Bay Area.
• Strong Python &/or PHP skills.
• Strong MySQL skills, including both query and database design.
• Experience with distributed version control, preferably Git.
• Experience with JSON, HTML/CSS/Javascript welcomed.
• Strong opinions on development team processes.

To apply, email your resume and salary requirements to jaime@chompapps.com. No recruiters or companies please.

System Administrator

Posted: 2009.07.27
Location: Palo Alto, CA

The Operations team at Ning is responsible for rapidly scaling a system composed of thousands of moving parts at exponentially increasing levels of traffic. Our team is strategically building and evolving management systems for a heterogeneous infrastructure that includes Solaris, Linux, and some Windows servers. We are currently tasked with creating deployment and management systems for our high availability, high growth infrastructure as well as developing precise early warning monitoring technologies that dynamically track anomalous behavior.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate systems run at scale for a rapidly growing heterogeneous infrastructure.
• Provide datacenter expertise in managing and deploying high availability multi-site infrastructure
• Provide Linux and Solaris expertise for high volume production systems.
• Identify, resolve, and prevent existing and future system bottle neck issues.
• Participate in 24/7 on call rotation

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years experience building and managing "lights out" datacenter infrastructure comprising 500+ servers/nodes
• Hands on experience administering and configuring UNIX servers with 3-5 years experience with Solaris, Linux, and server virtualization (VMWare/Zones, etc)
• Knowledgeable of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, SNMP, LDAP, and other core protocols for systems administration
• Strong background in troubleshooting large scale, high volume services with multiple dynamic components including web servers, SQL databases, Java application servers, and LAMP environments
• Experience in tools creation and application maintenance with strong scripting skills in one or more languages: Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby
• Strong documentation and communication skills

Desirable and preferred experience:

• Platform knowledge for equipment from: NetApp, 3Par, Cisco, Juniper, F5, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Brocade
• In-depth, detailed knowledge of Solaris and Linux performance tuning and kernel modification
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Cfengine, Puppet, Kickstart, Jumpstart
• Familiarity with routers, switches, hardware load balancers, and firewalls beneficial
• Experience with systems monitoring and management tools such as Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti, Puppet and similar solutions
• Understanding of storage fundamentals and experience with NFS, ZFS, and SANs
• Experience supporting Oracle and MySQL

Contact Yancy Rivera, Technical Recruiter, ning.com. yancy@ning.com. (650) 561-7135.

Linux Systems Administrator

Posted: 2009.07.26
Location: Upton, New York

Brookhaven National Laboratory is a nonprofit research and development institution whose purpose is to advance ideas and knowledge through a multidisciplinary program of basic and applied research. Our Physics Department's RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility has a full time opportunity for a Linux System Administrator.

The RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) operates a large-scale multi-purpose computing facility 24x7, serving a geographically diverse, worldwide scientific community that participates in various projects in which BNL is involved. The major components of the RACF are the 6300-processor Linux Farm, the 3 PB disk storage system, the 7 PB robotic tape storage facility, and the high-availability general computing infrastructure. The systems are connected together by a high-speed, 20 GBps-capable network infrastructure with over 3500 active ports.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing the Condor-based batch software.
• Participating in daily operations of the RACF Linux Farm.
• Carrying out hardware/software installation & upgrades.
• Participating in the evaluation of new technologies.
• Contributing to the support of general services in the facility.

Requirements include:

• Bachelors degree with 3 years of relevant experience, preferably in computer science or related discipline.
• Prior experience with x86-based systems and kernel-level knowledge of RedHat Linux operating systems are required.
• Working knowledge of shell scripting, Perl/Python and familiarity with the I/O characteristics of Linux-based systems, virtualization (vmware or xen) software, web-based languages and MySQL is essential.
• Basic knowledge of open-source batch system (condor, sge, pbs, etc) software and prior exposure to large Linux-based cluster is desirable.
• Ability to work in a team-like environment is essential.

At Brookhaven National Laboratory we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes but is not limited to:

• Medical Plans
• Vacation
• Holidays
• Dental Plans
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Retirement Plan
• On site Child Development Center, Swimming Pool, Weight room ,Tennis Courts, and many other employee perks and benefits

We invite you to consider Brookhaven National Laboratory for employment. To be considered for this position, apply online at www.bnl.gov and click Jobs, then click Search Job List and search for job # 14633.

Brookhaven National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer committed to work force diversity.

Senior Web Developer

Posted: 2009.05.26
Location: Davis/Sacramento

Want to work with an exciting startup and earn stock options in your spare time? MedHealth Solutions, Inc. a Sacramento/Davis area startup, is looking for a Senior Web Developer with extensive PHP / Drupal / LAMP experience to help us 1) enhance our MealWell service (www.mealwell.com) to meet the requirements of a large customer and 2) update our company website (www.medhealthsolutions.com). In the short-term, this is an equity-only consulting position with stock options for compensation. A minimum 3 month commitment is required. A longer-term opportunity, including cash compensation, is the goal.

If you have at least 20 hours per week available and can work effectively from home, why not put your time and skills to good use?

Qualifications:

• PHP (3+ years)
• OOP / OOAD
• MySQL
• Web UI (CSS/Javascript/etc.)
• Professional experience working in a team
• Drupal experience a big plus ++
• RedHat experience a plus
• Subversion experience a plus

Telecommute with periodic face-to-face meetings in Sacramento or Davis. If interested, please reply to this posting via email and with your resume. David Popejoy, CTO: dpopejoy@medhealthsolutions.com or Darin Salk, CFO & Co-Founder: dsalk@medhealthsolutions.com.

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