From lance at osuosl.org Fri Jan 24 17:18:34 2014 From: lance at osuosl.org (Lance Albertson) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:18:34 -0800 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] OSU Open Source Lab - Systems Architect Message-ID: The Oregon State University Open Source Lab has an immediate opening for a full-time systems administrator. We're looking for someone to help us support some of the world's most well-known open source projects and to mentor the next generation of DevOps students. This position is responsible for the design and architecture, deployment, and maintenance of the infrastructure, which includes servers, workstations, and network equipment. The position involves planning for future growth, designing network and system architecture for driving the OSL forward over time, maintaining Linux servers, databases, backups, web sites, code repositories, and other development tools used by our hosted partners. You need to be comfortable in a mentoring role because you will oversee the efforts of student developers as you assist with system administration, documentation, and testing. Qualifications: * Proficient with at least one yum-based and one apt-based Linux distribution of the following listed: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora * Familiar with relational database servers (MySQL or PostgreSQL especially), email administration, DNS, serving dynamic web applications (PHP, python or ruby especially), backups, network setup, performance scaling of websites and troubleshooting. * Effective communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrated success in independent problem-solving, self-direction, and the ability to manage multiple tasks. * Experience in mentoring students (or other coworkers) on system administration tasks, best practices and efficient work flow. Preferred Qualifications: * In-depth knowledge of open source software development / hosting practices and open source communities. * Experience with configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef or CFEngine. Experience with source control systems such as git or subversion. * Resourceful, with ability to work with limited resources. Past experience and involvement in one or more open source communities. Work experience in higher education. For more information or to apply, please visit the job listing on the OSU jobs site [1] . Please look for job posting #0011839. [1] http://osl.io/sysadminjob -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laura.olekas at nwea.org Thu Jan 30 00:36:54 2014 From: laura.olekas at nwea.org (Laura Olekas) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:36:54 +0000 Subject: [PLUG-JOBS] NWEA Systems Engineer (temp) job posting Message-ID: <0C3D2E4CF725A84095CA5060AD2474E8A3D32FED@S1P5DAG3F.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> Please post to PLUG - thank you! NWEA has an immediate opening for Systems Engineer (Linux) within our Technical Operations team in Portland. The assignment duration will be 6-12 months with the possibility of converting to full-time hire. Position summary: Systems Engineers are part of Product Engineering (PE) at NWEA; a highly functioning team of creative, collaborative, motivated and professional individuals driven by the singular mission of partnering to help all kids learn. We are in search of like-minded individuals who want to be part of a winning organization. If you embrace a dynamic environment, the spirit of innovation and value education with a can-do work ethic and "whatever it takes attitude", then we want you. 9-to-5ers need not apply. We are building a world class product organization that rivals the largest software as a service companies in the world. It is our vision to be seen as a model among cloud-based service offerings. As a member of the Technical Operations (TO) team, you will provide innovation and leadership in the PE organization by managing a world class infrastructure as a service offering to support NWEA's products and mission. Our team consists of forward-thinking individuals who want to disrupt the traditional mold through progressive design and implementation. Does the following describe you? * Mission Driven * Delivers on Commitments * Active Team Player * Strategic Rather Than Tactical * Operationally Excellent * Willing to Venture into the Unknown * Excited by Technical Innovation Responsibilities: * Design and document system infrastructure and procedures * Participate in capacity planning efforts * Communicate design options to the Infrastructure Architect * Work with project managers, department heads and team members to determine project approaches, parameters and priorities * Communicate plans, status, and issues to management * Participate in continuous integration efforts leading up to regular software releases for our SaaS platform * Lead the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools * Install, configure, maintain and automate a Redhat/CentOS Linux environment * Install and configure third party application components * Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology * Provide support to internal and external clients, including participation in the 24x7 on-call rotation (usually once a month) * Assist in development of NWEA security policies and procedures regarding system and data access Education and experience * Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree * Minimum 5 years related experience, with at least 3 years' experience RedHat Linux Systems Administration * Experience supporting a SaaS platform as a Linux professional * Experience with CI/CD processes and methods * Experience in automating large scale Linux environments utilizing one or more of the following: PERL, HTML, Python, PHP and Shell scripting * Experience with the following is a plus: * Puppet * JIRA * GIT * Foreman * Jenkins If you're interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact me directly at laura.olekas at nwea.org. Regards, Laura Olekas Sr. Talent Management Specialist | NWEA 121 NW Everett Portland, OR 97209 PHONE 503.548-5249 | CELL 503-539-9019| FAX 503.619-2297 NWEA.ORG | Partnering to Help All Kids Learn Join the SPARK Community, an online community bringing educators together Find us on Facebook, or follow us at twitter.com/NWEA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: