046 FT Web Operations Engineer

NYC Area

About the Job

• Building and maintaining the clients infrastructure, from installed iron to production
• Taking part in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Performing daily support tasks such as but not limited to management of backups, ldap user accounts, creating virtual servers, svn permissions etc.
• Supporting the senior operations staff and their project based work.
• Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care

About You

• Experience in building Linux systems (RHEL, Centos , Fedora) 
• Good understanding of Linux commands.
• Ability to write basic scripts.
• Must have worked in a web application environment.
• Hands on management of Linux backups.
• Familiarity with code repository software (Subversion, CVS, Git)
• Hands on basic management of core operations systems such as but not limited to DNS, LDAP, NTP
• Experience with data center tasks, including rack and stack, cabinet design and basic understand of power, space and cooling usage.
• A solid understanding of web application architecture, including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Experience working with Virtual machines (vmware, kvm, zen)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to Have

• Experience in a "continuous deployment" environment
• Experience with VPNs.
• Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.)
• Experience in social networking or community-generated content
• Hands on experience with server build automation
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby
• Hands on experience with PCI compliance issues
• Experience with mission-critical search and real time database architectures (Solr, Lucene, MySQL, Mongodb, Postgres, etc.)
• A understanding of caching strategies at all layers
• Experience with CDN's.
• Ability to create, customize, manage network management systems and monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Graphite, Cacti, etc.) 

Bill Evans 203-702-4457
 Bill@yourcurrentjob.com
 My new hobby for 2012: Indian cooking. Please send me Indian recipe websites, HOT curry recipes and good Indian restaurant locations! Vegetarian and non-Vegetarian are welcome.