From brent at brentrjones.com Mon Jun 4 21:36:50 2012 From: brent at brentrjones.com (Brent Jones) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:36:50 -0700 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Sr. Linux Systems Administrator (Portland, OR) Message-ID: I am posting this on behalf of my employer. We have a position open for a senior level systems admin to join us. Below is a brief description of the role, we would love to find candidates that have skills from several of the areas mentioned. But more than that, we are looking for someone with the right mindset and analytic skills to be self motivated and creative to drive our technology forward. Smarsh (http://www.smarsh.com) is looking for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to join an existing team to design and build large scale systems to store and process Petabytes of data. Smarsh is a rapidly growing company, with projects ranging from designing distributed Solr/Hadoop grids, to automation and network design. Role Summary: The successful candidate will join a small, but elite team of systems, network, and storage experts building high performance and scalable systems to address the needs of massive datasets. This opportunity would include design, implementation, and maintenance of systems and network. Job Responsibilities: * Significant Linux/Unix systems administration/engineering experience * Design and implementation of scalable high density storage and compute infrastructure * Automation and scripting (Puppet, Python/Perl/Bash) * Large deployment scenarios (PXE, Foreman) * Packaging and deployment of software (RPMs, Debs) * MySQL/Postgres Database management, backups * Experience with Big Data (Solr, Hadoop, Object Storage) * Virtualization technologies (VMWare specifically) * Networking technologies: routing protocols, switching, and security If you think you have the experience and skills to work for a challenging and growing software-as-a-service company head quartered here in Portland, OR, please apply here: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/smarsh/sr-linux-systems-administrator/ciHbL2Pgmr4A0seJe4bk1X -- Brent Jones brent at brentrjones.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jackie at hingedigital.com Tue Jun 5 19:36:57 2012 From: jackie at hingedigital.com (Jackie Fitzgerald) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:36:57 -0700 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Temp IT Support Position- Linux CentOS Server help needed Message-ID: Hinge Digital is seeking a temporary (full-time for a month, tapering off after that) IT Support person. Please direct all questions to jobs at hingedigital.com. QUALIFICATIONS: - Experience supporting a mixed OS environment, including Windows/Linux (CentOS), and OSX - Experience deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting artist workstations - Strong network/infrastructure experience, configuring VPNs, switches, linux servers, etc. - Experience with robust back-up systems, either off the shelf or custom - Experience in Digital Media production environment preferred - Experience implementing and maintaining distributed render queues preferred - Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Maya and Nuke preferred - Experience with IP/networked phones a plus - Self sufficient/independent worker Starts ASAP. Pay rate commensurate with experience. To apply, please send your resume to jobs at hingedigital.com. Link to posting available here. 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Please email me at jeffw at mbg.com. I anticipate growing my DevOps practice and building a great DevOps talent pool in Portland. Jeff Weintraub Recruiting Lead The Mainz Brady Group www.mbg.com Software is Eating the World Marc Andreessen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tony at itmotives.com Fri Jun 8 01:18:56 2012 From: tony at itmotives.com (Tony Seminary) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:18:56 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Operations and Deployment Engineer in Portland, OR Message-ID: <6A32DDEC1ED2F649B619871EBDCA58C613AD70B7@BL2PRD0710MB361.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Good Day All, We are looking for (what we call) an Operations and Deployment Engineer for a client in Portland, OR. If you're into the live music scene, enjoy working for start-ups, and flat organizations where you can really accelerate your Technology career and have a constant thirst for knowledge, please email me your resume to tony at itmotives.com. Below my email signature is more of the position and this is a pretty unique opportunity, let me tell ya. Essentially if you're tired of working in cube h**l and dying a thousand deaths doing so, all the while working for a boss who's a product of the "Peter principle" and not a very good boss at that, please apply with me for this position! You'll be glad you did :) Tony Seminary Chief Executive Officer IT Motives, www.itmotives.com Native American Owned Business 503.706.2970 tony at itmotives.com www.linkedin.com/in/tonyseminary Twitter: tonyseminary Operations and Deployment Engineer Portland, OR The person will be heavy into Operations and Deployment This person will do creating Automated deployment scripts, keeping scale in mind Facilitate and work with others such as Dev and QA Suggesting and implementing strategies around automation Write and deploy scripts vs. AWS Clone, link, and deploy machines to help out the Dev and QA teams Integration environment of Production needs to be close to identical to Prod, Set-up a clone of Production and cut over to A to B when you throw the light switch, Quality of scripts need to really high because of the nature of the Operations work Variety of scripting languages including Puppet scripting language, Willing to help out with Postgres, such as back-ups, restores, and interpreting logs, centralizing logs, diagnosing logs Monitoring and be mindful of resource levels in Production (it would be great to have a dashboard from what kind of memory we have available to us) Requires: Linux/Unix Systems Administration, Linux IT deployment experience Experience with deployment of scripts, Puppet experience would be great Networking background, such as IP addresses, host files, routing, etc Virtualization and experience with sets and clusters of virtual machines is great to have Storage systems experience and Cloud management techniques would be great to have (scripting Framework working with Amazon) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssullivan at gilt.com Fri Jun 8 15:55:42 2012 From: ssullivan at gilt.com (Sean Sullivan) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:55:42 -0700 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Senior Systems Engineer @ Gilt Groupe (Portland, NYC, Dublin) Message-ID: Greetings, Gilt is looking for two Senior Systems Engineers. We have offices in Portland, NYC, and Dublin. Contact me if you'd like to know more! Cheers, Sean ssullivan at gilt.com *Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer Reporting to the VP Infrastructure Engineering the Senior Systems Engineer is part of a team composed of system engineers and administrators responsible for the architecture, build, design and maintenance of Gilt Groupe?s computing and storage infrastructure. In addition, this position ensures the generation of design, build, operation and maintenance documentation for the Tier I and Tier II support teams. The Senior Systems Engineer works closely with business owners, engineers and application development teams during the analysis and design phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. The Senior Systems Engineer participates in the development and definition of processes to ensure solutions are consistent with the business strategies. The Senior Systems Engineer analyzes and tunes hardware/software configurations, automates existing manual processes, and identifies improvements to our existing tools. Key will be the ability to adapt to a highly nimble business environment, this means using technical skills and experience to make the right decision, quickly. Personal and team accountability will be fundamental to your success in this role. Establishment and evolution of key metrics, ranging from operational to relevant business insight is critical to success. Because the System Engineers are also responsible to develop and maintain our tooling and automation being proficient in Software Engineering is essential. Responsibilities: - Responsible for and assists in the troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure problems escalated to the Storage and Systems support team. - Performs application profiling, capacity planning, workload modeling and forecasting on systems and storage. - Designs, prepares and conducts new technology evaluations to determine infrastructure solutions based on business requirements and makes recommendations for improvement of infrastructure, technology, operational capability, reliability and performance. - Analyzes the performance of the infrastructure against current needs and planning for needed improvements. - Ensures optimal system and storage configuration and provisioning through engineering health checks and engagement of storage / system vendors as required. - Responsible for reporting of system and storage allocation, usage trends, I/O performance and bottleneck analysis - Responsible for developing, maintaining and documenting technology standards used in the environment. Qualifications: - In-depth experience in deploying or managing mid to large scale, distributed, customer-facing, e-commerce Linux environments spanning 500+ servers and 100TB+ of storage - Hands-on knowledge of configuration management tools (familiarity with Puppet and/or Chef is a plus) - Clear understanding of Linux internals (e.g. Memory management, File Systems, Process Management, ...) - Advanced or fundamental understanding of the following technologies: Red Hat/CentOS Linux, SAN, NAS, Virtualization (Citrix XEN, KVM), RPM packaging, Kickstart, Cobbler, Load Balancers (Zeus/Stingray Traffic Manager is a plus), Git - Experience with open-source databases (PostgreSQL/MongoDB) - Extensive experience in scripting and developing automation tools using Shell (Bash/Perl), Ruby or Python - Working knowledge of Amazon EC2 infrastructure - Hands-on Java/Scala/Ruby/Python Software Engineering skills are a plus - Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring - Knowledge of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting. - Solid understanding of DNS, LDAP, SMTP, NFS, SSH, DHCP, HTTP and other Internet Protocols. - Extensive experience in systems and storage capacity management, maintenance, forecasting and lifecycle planning focused on business requirements. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and change with shifting priorities. - Demonstrated ability to engage with business owners to understand their requirements, develop strategies to support business goals. - Ability to operate in high-pressure environment and successfully handle multiple priorities. - Excellent communication, prioritization and analytical skills. - B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - At least 5 years of work experience in high-volume or critical production environments, including experience with performance analysis, systems software, and systems architecture Experience - running highly-scalable, highly-available, customer-facing E-commerce/E-retail websites - with hundreds of servers, millions of customers, 10th of millions of page visits, +500 servers, +100TB storage - excellent trouble-shooting skills - works well under pressure to analyze/disect/narrow down a/the root-cause of the problem/issue - Understands E-commerce architectures (front-end/client, middle-tier/applications/services, back-end/database) - Understand operating system concepts (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network) Hardware - knows how to build/provision a datacenter from scratch and maintain it either on bare-metal or in the cloud (AWS EC2/S3, Xen, VMWare) - including provisioning and maintenance of large SANs (Storage Area Networks) * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tony at itmotives.com Tue Jun 12 15:25:34 2012 From: tony at itmotives.com (Tony Seminary) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:25:34 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Open Source Developer position: Portland, OR: USA **Unique Opportunity** Message-ID: <6A32DDEC1ED2F649B619871EBDCA58C613AEDA2F@BL2PRD0710MB361.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Good Day All, If you're tired of working in cube h***, have a boss that is a micro-managing control freak, or things of that nature, then please contact me! I have a position where the customer is looking for someone that is a good cultural fit, is interested in live music, and occasionally likes to go out and listen to music with their peers after work. The client is using cutting edge Open Source tools and technologies, such as Django, Python, Postgres, Linux, and to them this person could come from a Ruby, .NET, Java background...that doesn't matter. What does matter is their personality and if they are passionate about software! If you are, please email me at tony at itmotives.com. You'll be glad you did :) Thank you! Tony Seminary Chief Executive Officer IT Motives, www.itmotives.com Native American Owned Business 503.706.2970 tony at itmotives.com www.linkedin.com/in/tonyseminary Twitter: tonyseminary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JRussell at synergyseven.com Wed Jun 13 17:34:16 2012 From: JRussell at synergyseven.com (Jeff Russell) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:34:16 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Linux Developer Message-ID: Linux Developer Years of Experience 3-5 years Contract - 06 to 12 months Hillsboro OR Daily Responsibilities: Developing fixes and improvements to our Linux Software Development Kit which packages for Consumer Electronics drivers and software for customer release. Necessary Skills (Must Have): Significant Experience and Expertise With: . Creating and maintaining Bash shell scripts - bash, grep, sed, awk . Using GNU Make; creating and maintaining complex Makefiles - explicit / implicit rules - dynamic makefile generation using 'eval' and 'call' Experience With: . object-oriented development in Python . developing for an embedded Linux platform - cross-compilation / GCC . Linux file-systems - Using proper path locations within a filesystem Example: Knowing the differences between what is stored in /sbin, /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin - File system generation (mkext2fs, mknod, dd) - Experience writing / maintaining SysV style init scripts . Experience developing on a Linux platform (bash, SSH/SCP, NFS/TFTP, minicom) . Software packaging / distribution in Linux (RPM, tar / gzip / bzip2, ISO files / mkisofs) . Reconfiguring and rebuilding the Linux kernel and external kernel modules Understanding Of: . XML . The general differences between Linux distributions and versions . Cross open-source / proprietary license development - GPL / BSD / Other open source licenses - First and Third party proprietary licenses Additional Skills Desired (Nice to Have):. 'C' programming Jeff Russell Synergy Seven 4800 SW Meadows Road, Suite 300 Lake Oswego, OR 97035 Phone: 503.534.3731 Fax: 503.534.3559 jrussell at synergyseven.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnrussell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pbohnert at monsooncommerce.com Thu Jun 14 00:28:59 2012 From: pbohnert at monsooncommerce.com (Peter Bohnert) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:28:59 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Looking for a Release Engineer Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here at Monsoon Commerce we are seeking a talented and passionate Release Engineer to develop and maintain our toolkit and processes for software and service builds and deploys, to promote best practices in engineering teams, and to facilitate the promotion of code from desktop to production systems in an efficient and reliable manner. Ideal candidates will have deep experience working with the software as a service model and virtual hosts in a cloud architecture, as well as traditional website architectures and desktop applications. This role is for a skilled engineer who is an expert of their domain and who can also quickly adapt to challenges outside their scope of experience. Responsibilities - Develop and maintain build and deploy tools, scripts, and processes for web services and hosted applications - Work closely with development teams to facilitate test automation as part of the build process - Lead the release project, coordinating work and schedules across multiple teams - Own the build and deploy workflows, participating in technology and process decisions - Administrate the build and deploy infrastructure, including source code control and continuous integration systems - Manage release branches - Pair with developers and QA engineers to optimize their development and test environments - Promote best practices in infrastructure maintenance and deploy methodologies Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent related experience - Minimum 3+ years experience as a software/release engineer - Expert Unix/Linux experience (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc) - Expert scripting experience (bash, python, perl, etc) - Experience building applications and services in Java and Ruby (including GEM version control and updating) - Familiar with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server) - Comfortable with various build and continuous integration tools (Maven, Ant, Python, Teamcity) - Comfortable with large scale distributed systems, preferably in a cloud architecture - Familiar with Mercurial and code branching strategies - Excellent written and verbal communication skills To apply, please send your resume to jobs at monsooncommerce.com. 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URL: From tony at itmotives.com Tue Jun 26 20:32:10 2012 From: tony at itmotives.com (Tony Seminary) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:32:10 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] Jack of all Trades: Software Engineer positions in Portland, OR Message-ID: <6A32DDEC1ED2F649B619871EBDCA58C6152DB017@BL2PRD0710MB361.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Hello All! Our customer is looking to hire several Software Engineers that will be working their Cloud/SaaS-based team! What we're looking for is someone that is part Java Developer, part Linux Administrator, and part Scripting tool Developer. If you're interested in working in a very fast-paced, cool, and fun kind of environment, and writing software for Fortune 500 company, then you'll definitely want to apply for these positions! My email id is tony at itmotives.com. Thank you! 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Our client is building next generation web-based solutions for the higher ed market, and poised for some serious growth. We have two (2) openings for these Application Engineer positions, so perhaps you might have a friend you could refer that you'd want to work with. My email id is tony at itmotives.com if you are interested in talking more about these positions. Thank you all. Tony Seminary Chief Executive Officer IT Motives, www.itmotives.com Native American Owned Business 503.706.2970 tony at itmotives.com www.linkedin.com/in/tonyseminary Twitter: tonyseminary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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