[PLUG-TALK] Senior System Admin wanted
John Sechrest
sechrest at jas.peak.org
Fri May 24 23:49:57 UTC 2002
Hello,
I am out and about looking for a senior Unix system
admin person. If you know anyone who would like
to participate in a growing ISP enterprise, please
let them know about this position.
John Sechrest
CTO PEAK Internet
sechrest at peak.org
Title: Senior System Administrator/Network (Sage Job Description)
Hours: Full time
Location: Corvallis,Oregon
Date:
PEAK Internet Services is seeking a Sage Level 3/4
Senior System Administrator.
Environment:
PEAK is a local ISP in Corvallis Oregon, with
services around the state of Oregon. The infrastructure
is Linux/FreeBSD with a smattering of other boxes.
Services include mail, web, maillists, DSL, Frame, Unix shell,
custom programming and managed services.
Usenix Sage Job Description:
Senior (level 3/4)
Required skills:
Strong inter-personal and communication skills; capable of
writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making
presentations to customer or client audiences or professional
peers, and working closely with upper management.
Ability to solve problems quickly and completely. Ability to
identify tasks which require automation and automate them.
A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system;
understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication,
devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts
("inode", "superblock"), can use perfomance analysis to tune
systems.
A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing
environment concepts; understands principles of routing,
client/server programming, the design of consistent
network-wide filesystem layouts.
Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, a
shell), to port C programs from one platform to another, and to
write small C programs.
Required background:
More than five years previous systems administration experience.
Desirable:
A degree in computer science or a related field. Extensive
programming background in any applicable language.
Publications within the field of system administration.
Responsibilities:
Designs/implements complex local and wide-area networks of
machines.
Manages a large network.
Establishes/recommends policies on system use and
services.
Provides technical lead and/or supervises system
administrators, system programmers, or others of equivalent
seniority.
Check Offs
Local Environment Experience
Experience with Linux Redhat,Freebsd,Solaris.
LDAP, Mysql, Cfengine,PHP, Perl
Heterogeneity Experience
Experience with more than one UNIX-based operating system.
Experience with sites running more than one UNIX-based
operating system. Familiarity with both System V and BSD-based
UNIX operating systems.
Experience with Windows 2000 and NT services a plus.
Cross platform integration is valuable.
Programming Skills
Good programming skills in Perl, PHP, C.
Awareness of Cfengine a plus
Networking Skills
Experience configuring automounters.
Experience with Storage management.
Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols
Experience with Network Debuging
Experience with high-speed networking :
ATM, DSL, Frame Relay, SONET,Ethernet,
DDS.
Solid Understanding of Layer 2 switching Architectures
Familiarity with Layer 4-7 switching concepts
Ability to work with multiple physical transports including
single mode fiber, Multi mode fiber, Twisted Pair,
Coaxial Transport, Wireless Technologies
Experience with complex TCP/IP networks
using Cisco and Foundry Switches
Familiar with Cisco IOS
Familiar with Foundry Ironware
Experience configuring and maintaining routers.
Experience maintaining multi-site modem pool/terminal servers.
Experience with dial-up networking - PPP
Experience installing/configuring DNS/BIND.
Experience installing/administering Usenet news.
Experience as postmaster of a site with external connections.
Security
Experience with network security
Building and managing firewalls
Experience with distributed authentication
Experience with host security
Experience with multi-host security models
Site Specialities
Experience with production ISP environments.
Databases
Experience using relational databases.
Experience using SQL
Experience programming SQL
Experience with Apache Servers
Hardware
Experience installing and maintaining the network
cabling in use at the site.
Experience installing boards and memory into systems.
Experience with SCSI device setup and installation.
Experience installing/configuring peripherals
Duties:
To become a core member of our system engineering team.
Projects:
Project management
Unix cluster Development
DSL network deployment/support
Router/Network management
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PEAK Contact Info:
John Sechrest
PEAK Internet Services
1600 SW Western Blvd , Suite 180
Corvallis, Oregon 97333
http://www.peak.org
sechrest at peak.org
541 754 7325
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CTO PEAK - . computers and the Internet
Public Electronic . more effectively
Access to Knowledge,Inc .
1600 SW Western ,suite 180 . Internet: sechrest at peak.org
Corvallis Oregon 97333 . (541) 754-7325
. http://www.peak.org/~sechrest
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