Senior Linux System Administrator with PostgreSQL Experience

myYearbook.com is a fast growing social networking community. We are looking
for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to manage our cluster of
servers.

In joining our team, you'll enjoy a fantastic office location, a creative
and fast-paced work environment, and the exciting opportunity to be part of
a fast-growing venture-backed company. Our work environment is
entrepreneurial and driven.

If you love what you do and have at least 3 years of systems administration
experience in a high traffic Linux environment, please send us a resume. We
currently have 20+ Linux servers are growing at an outstanding rate.

This job is on-site only, no telecommuting. 24x7 availability required with
normal office hours.

Requirements

- More than 3 years UNIX/Linux experience, and administration of
systems for a high-traffic web environment.
- Experience with administering and troubleshooting PostgreSQL
including backups, access administration (pg_hba.conf tuning), and
postgresql.conf tuning.

- Apache, lighttpd installation, configuration and troubleshooting
- Clustering experience, including using SANs with shared file-systems
and dedicated hardware load balancing. Strong knowledge of Enterprise
storage (including Netapp EMC Isilon or Xiotech) and backup methodologies,
as well as enterprise-level System Management tools and services.
- Experience in high-volume email sending a plus.

- Working knowledge of Apache, Sendmail, MySQL, Perl, Bind, and PHP a
MUST
- Scripting skills in at least bash and Perl are highly desirable
- Experience capacity planning and tuning, investigating network
issues, and proposing and deploying new systems to remove bottlenecks.
- Experience with monitoring software to set up an alerts system for
outages. Experience in setting up backup plans through shell scripts.
- MUST be able install Linux distributions and compile custom
kernels. Experience with Gentoo, RHEL, and CentOS a plus.

- Experienced with TCP/IP network analysis and troubleshooting as it
applies to Linux/ environments.
- Familiarity with databases (mySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), with DBA
experience a major plus
- In-depth understanding of security technology and policy is
required. Technical problem solving with conformance to established or
proposed policies and procedures

Please send your resume in PDF format.

Gavin M. Roy
CTO
Insider Guides, Inc dba myYearbook.com
215.862.1162x263

Hello,

On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:12:43 -0400 Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> This job is on-site only, no telecommuting. 24x7 availability required with
> normal office hours.

you really should add your office location ;-)

Kind regards

--
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
(Ferenc Mantfeld)

Sorry, forgot to mention the position is in New Hope, PA which is about
45-60 minutes North of Philadelphia.

Regards,

Gavin

On 5/7/07, Gavin M. Roy <gmr(at)myyearbook(dot)com> wrote:
>
> myYearbook.com is a fast growing social networking community. We are
> looking for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to manage our
> cluster of servers.
>
> In joining our team, you'll enjoy a fantastic office location, a creative
> and fast-paced work environment, and the exciting opportunity to be part of
> a fast-growing venture-backed company. Our work environment is
> entrepreneurial and driven.
>
> If you love what you do and have at least 3 years of systems
> administration experience in a high traffic Linux environment, please send
> us a resume. We currently have 20+ Linux servers are growing at an
> outstanding rate.
>
> This job is on-site only, no telecommuting. 24x7 availability required
> with normal office hours.
>
> Requirements
>
> - More than 3 years UNIX/Linux experience, and administration of
> systems for a high-traffic web environment.
> - Experience with administering and troubleshooting PostgreSQL
> including backups, access administration (pg_hba.conf tuning), and
> postgresql.conf tuning.
>
> - Apache, lighttpd installation, configuration and troubleshooting
> - Clustering experience, including using SANs with shared
> file-systems and dedicated hardware load balancing. Strong knowledge of
> Enterprise storage (including Netapp EMC Isilon or Xiotech) and backup
> methodologies, as well as enterprise-level System Management tools
> and services.
> - Experience in high-volume email sending a plus.
>
> - Working knowledge of Apache, Sendmail, MySQL, Perl, Bind, and PHP
> a MUST
> - Scripting skills in at least bash and Perl are highly desirable
> - Experience capacity planning and tuning, investigating network
> issues, and proposing and deploying new systems to remove bottlenecks.
> - Experience with monitoring software to set up an alerts system for
> outages. Experience in setting up backup plans through shell scripts.
> - MUST be able install Linux distributions and compile custom
> kernels. Experience with Gentoo, RHEL, and CentOS a plus.
>
> - Experienced with TCP/IP network analysis and troubleshooting as it
> applies to Linux/ environments.
> - Familiarity with databases (mySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), with DBA
> experience a major plus
> - In-depth understanding of security technology and policy is
> required. Technical problem solving with conformance to established or
> proposed policies and procedures
>
> Please send your resume in PDF format.
>
> Gavin M. Roy
> CTO
> Insider Guides, Inc dba myYearbook.com
> 215.862.1162x263
>