From neetu at valiantica.com Tue Mar 3 13:23:35 2009 From: neetu at valiantica.com (Neetu) Date: Tue Mar 3 13:27:41 2009 Subject: Opening for Linux Administrator; WA Message-ID: Location: Redmond, WA Duration: 06-12 months 3 or more years of recent experience in the following items; * Linux administration and installations in production or laboratory environments. (Including but not limited to; configuration, Support, Deployment). * Intimately familiar with building and deploying Linux kernels * Proven usage of at least 3 or more of the following technologies on Linux in production environments; o Apache o PHP o MySQL o SAMBA o Network Configurations o X, KDE, GNOME o Building and installing device drivers * Worked with one or more major Linux distro's. (e.g SUSE, RedHat, Debian, UBUNTU, Fedora) * In-depth usage of a Linux programming/scripting commonly used for configuration and administration with Linux. (of or more of the following; Bash, Perl, Python, AWK, Sed) * Solid understanding of computer science concepts in operating systems/networking * Good understanding of concepts in experiment design * BS in Computer Science. (Or equivalent) Thank you for your time. Neetu From chris at pinnacledream.com Tue Mar 3 15:31:18 2009 From: chris at pinnacledream.com (Chris Wright) Date: Tue Mar 3 15:38:57 2009 Subject: freebsd sys admin - san diego, california Message-ID: <49ADBB74.8090408@pinnacledream.com> Looking for a FreeBSD sysadmin with a lot of experience with PHP/MySQL. Email back to freebsd@pinnacledream.com with resume and/or contact info. -chris From jschauma at netmeister.org Wed Mar 4 10:44:17 2009 From: jschauma at netmeister.org (Jan Schaumann) Date: Wed Mar 4 10:51:00 2009 Subject: Senior IP Network Engineer - Yahoo! Inc. Message-ID: <20090304182442.GB21114@netmeister.org> Hello, Yahoo! is looking for a Senior IP Network Engineer, focus on Load Balancer technologies. The full job posting is as follows: Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people. Provide support and direction for L4-7 technologies related to Yahoo!'s production properties worldwide. Maintain a high-level of expertise on current and emerging L4-7 technologies. Work closely with developers and operations staff to design, plan, implement, and validate solutions. Participate in a 24x7 oncall rotation. Must be able to work independently and also in a team environment with flexible availability. Expert troubleshooting skills are required. Qualifications for Senior IP Network Engineer: 5+ years of related experience In-depth knowledge of Layer 4-7 loadbalancing and ssl acceleration Knowledge of TCP/IP protocol stack and various vendors' implementations Experience with: Load Balancers (Brocade Foundry ServerIron, Citrix Netscaler, F5, Cisco ACE/CSS) Network Operating Systems (IOS, CatOS, JunOS) Network Protocols (BGP, OSPF, IPsec, 802.1d/p/q/s/w, LACP) Server Operating Systems and Internet Software (FreeBSD, Linux, Apache) Traffic Generators (Ixia, Spirent/Smartbits) Network management (mrtg/rrd, cflow/sflow, snmp) Sniffers and Protocol Analyzers (tcpdump, ethereal, SnifferPro) Scripting (Perl, Expect, TCL/tk) IP Multicast Excellent project, technical, interpersonal, presentation and problem management skills BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience This position is in Sunnyvale, CA. If you're interested, email me your resume in .txt, .html or .pdf format and I'll pass it on. -Jan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/attachments/20090304/285e9898/attachment.pgp From gopaldevaraj at yahoo.co.in Fri Mar 6 02:36:08 2009 From: gopaldevaraj at yahoo.co.in (gopal devarajan) Date: Fri Mar 6 04:10:40 2009 Subject: Job opening for Open Source Admins with one of the Largest Internet company @ Bangalore Message-ID: <385199.72701.qm@web95302.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Hi Folks, ? One of the Largest Internet company is looking out for Sr / Lead Open Source Unix/Linux/Free BSD professioanls. ? Req:1 LAMP Admins with 4 to 9 years exp ? Req:2 MYSQL DBA with Unix/Linux SA Exp with 5 to 10 years ? Req:3 Unix Admin with Perl and Shell scripting exp. ? Location : Bangalore ? If you are interested in applying, Pl send your profile to gopaldevaraj@yahoo.co.in ? ? Rgds- Gopal Devarajan. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? From keen at icantclick.org Fri Mar 6 10:16:01 2009 From: keen at icantclick.org (David Raistrick) Date: Fri Mar 6 10:20:49 2009 Subject: FreeBSD sysadmin looking for work (Orlando, telecommute) Message-ID: My last job just moved to Long Island without me. Anyone need a sysadmin or network engineer? Telecommute or Orlando Florida area. Open to short travel projects as well. Email if you are interested or have any pointers. ;) keen@icantclick.org - Network and Systems Architect - I analyze and diagnose troubled networks and redesign them to be efficient, reliable, and scalable. What I bring to systems and network design is the knowledge that each component is part of the system-users, applications, software, developers, and hardware-and every one has to be taken into account. - Skills And Qualifications - * 10+ years in networking and systems. * Rapidly fire-fight in unfamiliar environments. * Support developers to ensure that software, network and system work together. * SAGE Level III systems administrator and charter member of LOPSA. * Operating Systems: UNIX (FreeBSD, BSDi, BSD/OS, Mac OS X), Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows XP/2000/2003, and others. Network Products: Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, and HP routers and switches; Trango and other wireless gear; Cisco PIX and ASA, WatchGuard, SonicWALL, NetScreen, Fortinet, GNAT Box, SnapGear firewalls; CacheFlow cache engines; Acucomm DSLAMS; Foundry ServerIron, F5 BigIP, and Cisco CSS load balancers, Internap FCP route controller. * Network Technologies: BGP, RIP, OSPF, RADIUS, DNS (BIND, djbdns), ATM. * Email: Email servers (qmail, Sendmail, NTMail, IMail), mailing list managers (ezmlm, Smartlist, Majordomo), AV/AS (F-Prot, AntiVir, Sophos, Kaspersky, AMaViS, SpamAssassin, Commtouch, Mailshell), development of GNAT Box Mail Sentinel, Courier IMAP. * Programming/Scripting Languages: Shell (sh, tcsh, bash, ksh), awk/sed, PHP, Perl, Python. * Backups: Amanda, rsync, Retrospect, bacula. * Web: Apache, PHP, CacheFlow, RT, ColdFusion, JRun, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, DBRocket DBML, Microsoft IIS. * Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Filemaker, MS SQL Server, Oracle. * Storage: SAN (FibreChannel and iSCSI), NFS using EMC, Pillar, Brocade, Dell hardware. * Virtualization: VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware ESX, VMware Server, Xen hypervisor. - Related Experience - Systems Administrator / Network Engineer July 2007 - present NeuLion and JumpTV Inc., Sanford FL Performed role of both Systems Administrator and Network Engineer as needed, focusing on revamping and stabilizing the server and network infrastructure. Team lead for four sysadmins and one DBA, manager for one network engineer. With my team, maintain an environment of 250 servers in seven colocation facilities, supporting a complex website and content management infrastructure that serves several hundred college athletic department websites, streaming video, and the jumptv.com online television portal. Maintain streaming video content delivery network (CDN) for JumpTV's online television platform. Configure and debug Cisco PIX and ASA firewalls, Cisco CSS, and F5 BigIP load balancers. Architected expansion of one site to 19 racks including cooling, space, and power budgets, including fully redundant core and internal network with diverse internet transit connections. Initiated push for virtualization of server environment, with one third of the servers converted to virtual servers. Maintained peering (BGP) relationships at the TorIX in Toronto, Any2 Exchange in Los Angeles, LINX in London, Equinix in Ashburn, and NAP of the Americas in Miami. Built extensive monitoring and statistics gathering system to warn of failures and provide scaling data. Built central script toolkit for maintenance of system that works with unique environment features. Assisted with phone system consolidation, moving from a mix of Cisco and 3com to an Asterisk open source solution. Initiated Operations and Development documentation repository (wiki) using MoinMoin. Researched and documented system, network, and software architecture for complex 100-server web application using Red Hat, CentOS, Apache, Tomcat, ColdFusion, DBML, and Oracle. Built a trouble ticket tracking system for the Operations team using OTRS. Network Engineer / Systems Administrator December 2005 - July 2007 SKYRIM Inc., Daytona Beach FL Designed a network for a wireless ISP start-up and built a team to install and maintain it. Designed two-city metro Wi-Fi network. Designed, built, and deployed PtMP network for wireless ISP using Cisco, Extreme and Trango. Researched and selected transit providers, colocation facilities, and tower sites. Initiated company-wide documentation project using pbwiki. Hired and managed systems administrator and installation technicians. Performed systems administration of FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows 2003 Servers. Network Architect/Engineer July 2005 - December 2005 PowerCentric Software Inc., Orlando FL Working with the development team, specified a detailed system and network architecture to meet the reliability, redundancy, and availability requirements for the design of web-based software for the insurance industry. Proposed network designs, specified desktop and network hardware for development office. Researched network and database security requirements for SOX and HIPAA. Outlined office and test lab environments. Installed Windows 2003 Servers with JBoss Java Application Server, BlueDragon, and IIS. Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux with JBoss, BlueDragon, and Apache. Systems Administrator December 2001 - July 2005 Global Technology Associates, Inc., Orlando FL Maintained and upgraded 11 FreeBSD servers, three Windows 2000/XP servers, and a mix of FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS9 workstations. Configured, maintained, and upgraded three Cisco routers and three production GNAT Box firewalls, including four High Availability firewall pairs. Responsible for configuration and performance testing competitor firewalls including Cisco PIX, Watchguard, SonicWall, and NetScreen. Wrote design specifications and performed Quality Assurance testing on prototype hardware. Responsible for all internal and external DNS using BIND and djbdns. Built a IPv6 firewall using ipf and an IPv6 lab network for use by the development department using IPv6 routing, subnetting, and firewalls. Designed distributed and highly available network and systems infrastructure for Surf Sentinel content filtering. Worked with development to ensure software functions were compatible with the network and system architecture. Provided significant input into the design and feature set for the Mail Sentinel AV/AS email proxy. Researched, evaluated, and benchmarked AV and AS SDKs from vendors, providing data that aided in the selection of partners. Installed a second T1, configured BGP, procured an ASN from ARIN, registered route objects, and performed BGP tuning to balance traffic. Designed a company-wide backup system using Amanda, including extensions to maintain 10 days of firewall configurations. Developed a simple High Availability solution for corporate webserver and database server utilizing VRRP. Upgraded existing mailservers and mailing lists to qmail and ezmlm-idx. Redesigned and updated mailing list archives and implemented MnogoSearch for archives and website. Installed spam and virus filtering using qmail-scanner, f-prot, and SpamAssassin. Customized qmail-scanner to redirect tagged spam in accordance with evolving company policy. Installed SSL web-based email for traveling employees using SquirrelMail. Systems Administrator (Contract) 2001 - 2004 Atlasta Networks, Seattle WA Sendmail, BIND and Apache configuration and maintenance under FreeBSD and BSDi. Machine upkeep, and installation and repair of software for clients. Systems Administrator (Volunteer) 1998 - present Type2.Com Hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance of a FreeBSD 4.3-R server running Apache, qmail, ezmlm-idx, and procmail serving a hobbyist mailing list with 1500+ subscribers and associated websites. Senior Network Engineer/Systems Administrator June 2000 - April 2001 Digital Wireless Communications, Savannah GA Supported and maintained two Metropolitan Area Networks, customers, and all related equipment, 24x7. Responsible for DNS and emails servers. Built a web-based email interface for customers. Managed three technicians and an admin. Designed and planned migration to a dynamic multi-homed network including three diverse DS3s, BGP, and OSPF. Deployed aDSL through BellSouth. Designed ATM nationwide network using PPPoEoA across dynamically deployed Adaptive Broadband radios for last mile. Designed, configured and deployed Adaptive Broadband ATM topology wireless routers and bridges using both CLIP routing and RFC1483 bridging in two cities. Designed and installed a streaming audio and video server using FreeBSD, Apache, and RealServer 7. Configured, monitored, and maintained multiple Cisco 7206VXRs, 2600 series, and 1600 series routers, as well as Acucomm iDAC DSLAMs and iRACER DSL Modems. Installed, planned and programmed wireless WANs using BreezeAccess Ethernet bridges, Wireless-Inc WaveNet 2458 wireless routers, Wireless-Inc N2X/WaveEX wireless bridges. Instituted a complete network status and stability monitoring system using a combination of Big Brother and MRTG. Configured and installed two CacheFlow cache engines in a forward/reverse proxy setup using WCCP. Recommended email virus scrubbing system using AmaVis, AntiVir, and sendmail. Systems Administrator (Contract) 1998 - 2001 Digital-Galaxy Networks, Seattle WA Maintained and administered BSDi and FreeBSD 3.X servers. Network Engineer 1997 - 1999 Atlasta Networks, Grovetown GA Designed and configured a dialup ISP using Livingston Portmaster 3s, and BSDi servers running Sendmail, RADIUS, and Apache, as well as providing shell space to customers. Installed and configured a Cisco 2525 to our upstream provider. - Certifications - TCP/IP Administration - 2000, Brainbench Linux Administration (General) - 2001, Brainbench If the network was an orchestra, I'd be the guy who makes sure that all the instruments are in place; there are enough flutes, but not too many tubas; and the drummer doesn't end up with a trombone. -- David Raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html keen@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html From jschauma at netmeister.org Sat Mar 7 13:12:17 2009 From: jschauma at netmeister.org (Jan Schaumann) Date: Sat Mar 7 15:45:07 2009 Subject: Distributed Applications Operations Engineer - Yahoo! Inc. Message-ID: <20090307211216.GB18035@netmeister.org> Hello, Yahoo! is looking for a Distributed Applications Operations Engineer The full job posting is as follows (also available at http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?frm=jsres&oid=19743): ==== Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people. In the Yahoo Search Technology team, we build scalable systems to discover, archive, analyze and index billions of documents accessible on the Web. With the help of cutting edge scoring algorithms and an extremely high performance runtime querying system capable of serving millions of queries a day, we positively affect the lives of people every day. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed/grid computing, peta-byte scale storage systems, high-performance and high availability computing. We are looking for a senior systems engineer to join the YST Content Operations team. This team is responsible for operations and operations related infrastructure development, for our core crawling and indexing systems. Do you like putting all the components of a system together and seeing it run? Does the challenge of debugging an elusive network issue sound fun? Would you enjoy hammering different hardware configurations to figure out how to achieve the most cost-effective performance? As a key member of the team you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining large distributed applications that are core to the Yahoo Web Search product. You will be responsible for troubleshooting production problems and optimizing performance. You must be a self starter and able to solve a wide variety of complex problems in innovative and practical ways. Yahoo Web Search, is passionate about building the world?s best search engine! Search is one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet. It is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. We're looking for world-class talent to join our team. If you have a desire to be part of building the best and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to us. Responsibilities: * Support production deployments of large-scale, distributed applications. * Deployment of new releases and hardware. * Monitor cluster health and performance. Diagnose and solve issues independently. * Building infrastructure to streamline operations. * Document tools and operational procedures. * Automate recurring tasks as appropriate. * Participate in capacity planning and hardware requirements analysis. Required Qualifications/Education: * BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems (or equivalent) * 3+ year(MS) or 5+ years(BS) of industry experience * 2+ years experience operating large distributed applications on Unix * System/Network Administration in a Unix environment, preferably * hundreds of nodes * Scripting: Shell/Perl/Python/Tcl * Excellent planning, communication and interpersonal skills * Strong focus on maintaining a high Quality of Service. Desired Additional Experience: * Familiar with cluster computing platforms such as Condor/Torque/Maui/Hadoop * Hands-on experience with monitoring frameworks such as Nagios * LAMP development/administration is a plus * Application and hardware performance benchmarking Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com. ==== This position is in Santa Clara, CA. If you're interested, email me your resume in .txt, .html or .pdf format and I'll pass it on. -Jan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/attachments/20090307/f2f37b6e/attachment.pgp From sjt.kar at gmail.com Wed Mar 18 06:44:46 2009 From: sjt.kar at gmail.com (Sujit Karataparambil) Date: Wed Mar 18 06:52:30 2009 Subject: Looking For an Contract Position - Remote Message-ID: <921ca19c0903180614g5ecadbc9qf0ff9ad795d61bf9@mail.gmail.com> Hi All, Currently Looking for an contract job - Remote. Would like to know whether there is anyone looking for an remote contractor. Primary Skills are Kernel(Linux/Unix/FreeBSD)/C/C++/Java. Looking out for an suitable job based on x86 Arch. Could be anything like maintaining an Storage/HPC/File System on Linux/FreeBSD. Also Could be anything like porting an already existing system into the current Linux/FreeBSD Implementation. Thanks, Sujit From researchengineeringdevelopment at gmail.com Thu Mar 19 06:01:32 2009 From: researchengineeringdevelopment at gmail.com (RED Inc) Date: Thu Mar 19 09:12:35 2009 Subject: Req: Contractor, FreeBSD kernel, update path, contribute to FreeBSD. Message-ID: Research Engineering Development has recently secured a contract to provide a contractor to assist a company with a migration of their FreeBSD based OS to a more recent FreeBSD version. The client would also like the contractor to take non core intellectual property and bring it into FreeBSD if it would be mutually beneficial to the client and FreeBSD. Extensive experience in the following areas are required: - FreeBSD kernel. - Networking. - SMP. - Filesystems (NFS, disk based). - Bringing code into FreeBSD. - Scoping out deliverables. - Previous contract experience. - Porting code between FreeBSD versions. We require someone with FreeBSD commit access, or a long time contributor with means to submit code to the project. Remote is OK. This is a near full-time position for several months. Research Engineering Development will handle: - contract details. - assist with scoping. - billing and payment to the contractor. Contractor will handle: - scoping. - code. - FreeBSD integration. We have experience with this client before and they have delivered large amounts of code via contractor into FreeBSD based on this prior arraignment. Please respond with: - Cover letter with short description of who you are and contributions to FreeBSD. - Resume. - Availability. - Rate in USD. -- Adrienne Thurston Human Resources/Recruiting Research Engineering Development Inc researchengineeringdevelopment@gmail.com From mosofsky at netbase.com Fri Mar 20 12:08:52 2009 From: mosofsky at netbase.com (Michael Osofsky) Date: Fri Mar 20 12:33:53 2009 Subject: Senior Technical Operations Leader Message-ID: Senior Technical Operations Leader Location: Mountain View, CA NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a hands-on senior technical operations leader. NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more. We are looking for an operations leader who can establish strong cross-functional working relationships within a growing organization. Candidates should have experience hiring, growing, and managing change in an operations group. A strong business acumen and negotiation skills are essential. We seek individuals with experience in the search space and/or high-volume document processing, including experience in handling large amounts of data--up to Petabytes. We are a lean organization so candidates who share in our belief of scaling with commodity hardware will be preferred. Experience with consumer-facing web applications is a plus. Job Requirements: * 8+ years technical operations experience * Experience with large scale systems (Internet search preferred) * Demonstrated ability to build complex operations with commodity hardware * Expertise in production network planning and real-time network diagnosis * High degree of integrity and drive * MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience * Available to address operations issues on a moment's notice * Experience scaling to multiple operations centers * Excellent negotiator Technologies in Use: * Linux (Suse) * BSD Unix * nginx, apache, tomcat * Lucene * Java * Jgroups * mySQL * nagios * python Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required. To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Senior Technical Operations Leader". From mosofsky at netbase.com Fri Mar 20 12:09:35 2009 From: mosofsky at netbase.com (Michael Osofsky) Date: Fri Mar 20 12:34:32 2009 Subject: Software Architect Message-ID: Software Architect Location: Mountain View, CA NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a hands-on software architect. NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more. We seek a hands-on architect with extensive background in software development to translate business objectives into a technology vision and articulated architecture. Candidates should have a strong track record of designing and developing multi-tiered web applications that are high quality, scalable, and reliable. We prefer generalists who have driven feature development at every layer of the stack. We have a strong preference for someone with expertise in text search engines such as Lucene or FAST who have customized these systems and deployed them on a large-scale. Also preferred are candidates with experience in applying NLP and Machine Learning to solving problems for Fortune 500 end-users. Candidates should have excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of increasing responsibility. Those who are skilled in organizational needs assessment and driving change via consensus will fit in well on our team. Candidates should be able to establish credibility quickly and provide mentorship to team members. We target talented individuals who are resourceful, flexible, and aggressive about learning new things. We are an Agile development shop. We do test-driven design and rapid iterative development and are looking for a like-minded architect to help us build for the future. Requirements: * 10 years work experience with 3+ as an architect * Experience in large-scale, distributed, web-based applications * Agile development methodology * Deep knowledge of Java * MS or PhD in CS * Database design and SQL (MySQL a plus) * Excellent interpersonal and communications skills * High degree of integrity and drive * Expertise in Adobe Flex, Flash and Python are nice to have Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required. To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Software Architect".