[First off, let me apologize in advance for the slightly off-topic
posting. This is a one time thing, here only because people with
Digital UNIX experience are hard to find in these parts. Thanks.]
The short version: Looking for a junior/intermediate level UNIX
administrator for a job with a Fortune 1000 company located
in Jacksonville, Florida.
The slightly longer version:
My employer wants to hire a second Digital (and other) UNIX admin. I'm
currently the only admin for a Fortune 1000 company, and, quite frankly,
the workload has grown beyond one person. I'm looking for someone who's
talented, trustworthy, and very importantly, is someone I can work with.
Some brief technical highlights of our site:
Digital AlphaServers: Our site has AlphaServer 2100s, one 4100, three
8400s, and a few dozen smaller Alphas running Digital UNIX. We've got
something over half a terabyte of disk dedicated to Informix databases.
The 8400's will be TrueClustered in the next two months, and the 4100
will become an 8200 in May.
Other UNIX: SunOS, Solaris, SCO, PTX, AIX, and BSDI all have a presence
here. We've also got Linux boxes in fifty or so locations around the
country.
Other related: We run a number of standard network services: mail, www,
lpd, NIS, NFS, DNS, Usenet, Internet firewalls, VPN servers, fax servers,
Citrix Winframe, and lots more. Our office is also the center of
a nationwide wide area network, and I work closely with the network
manager. The network currently has about 150 nodes, but there are another
750 scheduled to come online. From the numbers, you can see that we're
right at the beginning of a giant growth phase. I strongly suspect that
the next person hired will not be the last.
What we're looking for: A junior/intermediate level admin to share some
of the workload. Duties would begin with day to day maintenance chores:
second-level troubleshooting of system problems our help desk can't
resolve, adding users, DNS maintenance, backup management, branch system
configuration, writing scripts, that kind of thing. Once you learn more
about our setup, that would be expanded to system design, configuration,
upgrades, cluster management and more; basically the end goal is for
someone to become as knowledgeable about our operation as I am.
Experience: You should be familiar with UNIX (ideally, Digital UNIX)
and have experience with the network services mentioned above. Senior
admins are welcome to contact me also, but I suspect this is a position
that will grow a junior into a senior. Novices that show very strong
potential will also be considered.
Compensation: officially "commiserate with experience," as they say,
but it's good for this area of the country.
This posting is clearly not a formal search; I'm a technical person,
not an HR person. But they are ready to hire, and I'd like to find
someone I can have confidence in. If you're at all interested, feel free
to contact me and we can discuss the duties, requirements and related
issues in more depth.
-Bill David
wdavid_at_osni.com
Received on Thu Jan 15 1998 - 05:24:14 NZDT