[gnhlug-jobs] Two Open Positions - passing along contact info.

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I wanted to pass along to the group a couple of positions that were
presented to me.  I recently picked up full time employment, and am
not currently searching.

While Looking, I did get a chance to work with Shawn and though he's
not the one that placed me, he was very diligent on making sure that
he presented me with positions that fit what I was looking for and
that I knew all there was to know before making my decisions.

Anyone who is looking, I do recommend both Shawn and JVT Advisors in
general for a rare "non-meat-market" type of recruiting company.

Shawn Roderick
Technical Consultant
JVT Advisors
35 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810
Direct (978)557-7125
Main (978)683-4555
shawn at jvtadvisors.com
www.jvtadvisors.com


Position:  Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Location:  Cambridge, MA
Salary:  90-105K

Generic Requirements:
"           Linux/Unix expert
"           Expert sys admin.
"           Expert troubleshooter
"           BS/CS or equivalent experience

Specific Requirements:
"           Extensive experience using open-source tools to manage installations
"           Large installation (100+ server) experience
"           Extensive experience setting up, operating and scaling a
large number of servers and services in a largely automated and
repeatable way. Must have tackled: Configuration management,
Monitoring/Alerting, Application deployment, Server deployment,
Systems Automation.
"           Ability to work at all levels of the service platform
(data center/network/servers/application)
"           Experience scripting for systems automation tasks.
"           Eager to work in a fast-paced, team-centric environment.
"           Resourceful problem solver. Sharp analytical skills and
the ability to learn new skills quickly.

Responsibilities:
"           Use your mastery of Linux/Unix to help build, scale, and
troubleshoot the service platform.
"           Ensure the service maintains the highest levels of
availability by being part of a 24x7 on-call pager rotation.
"           Work with our world-class development organization to
fine-tune and enhance our web application stack for optimal
performance, and troubleshoot it when it breaks.
"           Manage all levels of our service platform, from the data
center on up.
"           Write tools that will allow our service to scale by
automating routine production workflows, and collect data about the
production environment for use in capacity planning and
troubleshooting.
"           Monitor the health of our production systems using
primarily open-source and in-house tools.

Bonus Points:
"           Familiar with web application architectures and the role
of systems engineering in supporting and enhancing them;
"           Direct experience with cfengine, nagios, cacti,
kickstart/netboot, func.
"           Direct experience with Java, Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL.
"           Experience with internetworking (BGP/OSPF).  Juniper experience.
"           Advanced/Expert in (PHP/Perl/Python), with a focus on
common systems administration, task automation, and monitoring.
"           Experience and desire to work using the Scrum framework
"           Strong verbal and written communication skills.
"           Detail-oriented and extremely well organized.








Position:  Senior Unix Administrator
Location:  Natick, MA
Salary: 80-90K

Worldwide UNIX Administration
Life-cycle responsibility for multiple Sun Solaris and Linux servers
Manager support contracts and coordination of support and maintenance
for all Unix platforms
Technical liaison with Engineering and applications groups for mission
critical, enterprise systems
Provide UNIX systems support to cross-functional project teams in a
technology intensive environment
Corporate FTP server administrator
Corporate DNS/NIS administration
Unix mail list/archive administration
Unix system security administration
Applications (PeopleSoft, First Choice, Portal) Unix server administration
Develop and document technical policies and procedures for the UNIX environment
Responsible for working with the Network Management Team to ensure
appropriate network management apps/tools are loaded for the UNIX
environment

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Network expertise (in a heterogeneous Sun, Windows environment)
including DNS, NIS, TCP/IP
Hardware experience (Sun preferred)
Veritas volume manager experience
Perl/Shell scripting
Sendmail expertise
Technical Support and problem avoidance/solving background
Project Leadership in a team oriented environment
Good written and oral communication and documentation skills
Ability to develop and implement technical policies and procedures
Ability to work with diverse and distributed user community

Minimum education and work experience required:
BS or equivalent
5+ years experience with Unix/Linux

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