[Jobposts] Sr. Server Engineer position Solaris / Linux San Francisco Bay Area USA

[Tom Mesch]

Position will most likely allow telecommuting 2 days a week but you
definitely need to live in the bay area for this position.

 

International applicants with minor relocation assistance could be
possible

 

3 openings!  $100k to $120k 

 

To apply put the words "Server Engineer" in the subject line and send
resumes to:

 

Resumes

At

Roznosinc

Dot

com

 

I'm friends with this VP of Operations and have worked for him as a
vendor for many years.  I WILL get you results if you're qualified.

 

This company is a high traffic well known commercial Internet site on
the Peninsula near San Francisco.  They've been around since 1996 and
are currently growing rapidly.

 

Keys to this position:

We need to find a tech lead / engineer rather than an administrator. 

 

Someone who owns projects start to finish.  A Server Engineer that is
able to sit in a meeting and tell the development team that they are
wrong if necessary.

 

Experience with High Availability Systems / or an enormous intranet.

 

This is more than just installing patches and upgrading OS's

 

Bonus points for: Being a contributing member of the Open Source
community and also for being published

 

Responsibilities:
 
 . Supporting and collaborate with development team
 . 24x7 uptime requirement for this site; before and after hours
availability is required
 . A lead technical person that resolves complex site issues
 . Work together with engineering to resolve technical and capacity
issues on the site.
 . Project manages cross departmental tasks / projects.
 . Provide tactical support of over 1000 production Linux / Unix /
Windows servers
 . Work with Network Operations Center to resolve site issues.
 . Work with Business development in deployment of new architecture /
applications.
 . Performance tuning (application, system, network)
 . This person will have root privileges to all production servers
 . Since this individual has root privileges, a security back ground
check will be mandatory
 
 POSITION QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS 
 
 . Experience running large applications, with a 100% uptime
requirement.
 . In depth knowledge of how web services work 
 . Proven experience in Network administrations and routing protocols a
plus.
 . Perl programming at an advanced level (references, object oriented
Perl); ability to use Perl to automate routine tasks
 . Proven leadership / technical troubleshooting abilities
 . An understanding of 404 compliance.
 . Strong hardware and software diagnostics skills
 . Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to produce
written documentation for a technical and non-technical audience
 . Ability to manage vendors successfully
 . Adaptability to work quickly and change directions as priorities
change
 . Self starting and highly motivated
 . Positive attitude and willingness to take on new responsibilities
 . Significant build/release experience a plus
 . Large scale storage experience (NAS / SAN, HSM, backups)
 . Security experience (firewall, IDS, tripwire type tools)
 . Operational Java experience
 . Oracle experience
 . Application diagnostic/development experience (gdb, purify /
quantify, truss, etc.)

 

Thanks,

Tom Mesch

Roznos Enterprises, Inc 
Strategic Staffing Specialist
Http://www.roznosinc.com <http://www.roznosinc.com/>