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Hi my name is Shane Reed and I'm a long time Unix/Linux techie who
has been to LISA conferences and Bay LISA meetings in the past. I
am now in a very technical hands on manager position and am growing
my team by one more position. I work for Whitehat Security and we
are experiencing amazing growth and are ramping up in most areas.
The web application field is booming and it's a great time to be
here. Our IT team gets awesome recognition for the solid work we do
in helping the company run our Saas product.<br>
<br>
In the past I have worked for some historically great IT teams at
Synopsys and Brocade under some great managers and mentors so even
though Whitehat is still fairly small we think and build our systems
like a much more mature company . Right now I am looking for a
Linux Systems Admin who may also be strong in Network
Administration. The job description is below. If it sounds
interesting please email me at:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shane.reed@whitehatsec.com">shane.reed@whitehatsec.com</a><br>
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<p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Installation, configuration, and debugging for
Dev/QA/Production Linux systems</li>
<li>Basic network admin including routing configuration, network
performance troubleshooting, and DNS maintenance.</li>
<li>Experience with or knowledge of following technologies:</li>
<ul>
<li>Securing, managing, and monitoring servers using config
management tools and snmp<br>
</li>
<li>Patch management for Linux, VMware, and hardware<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Using shell scripts or other tools to automate tasks<br>
</li>
<li>VMWare administration<br>
</li>
<li>Managing support incidents with hardware and software
vendors</li>
<li>Troubleshooting complex interoperability and system
networking problems</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Proactively troubleshoot complex problems that may have high
impact and wide scope.</li>
<li>Aggressively tackle fixing the issues you find.</li>
<li>Provide recommendations and implementation of system capacity
expansion and upgrade under the direction of management to
support business growth. Propose solutions for appropriate
technologies, prototype these solutions and show these benefits
to customers.<br>
</li>
<li>Participate in meetings in response to internal service
requests and using these to create unity between different
departments that will help solve problems and make everyone more
productive and help to increase job satisfaction.<br>
</li>
<li>Provide leadership in initiatives for technology design,
engineering, support, and maintenance activities.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>3-5+ years of experience with Redhat Linux/Debian/Ubuntu <br>
</li>
<li>Experience configuring and trouble-shooting infrastructure
appliances in a production environment.</li>
<li>A broad conceptual and hands on knowledge of networking
protocols and overall communication of devices.</li>
<li>Knowledge of Internet protocols, including HTTP(S), FTP, NTP,
SSL, DNS, DHCP, and SNMP.</li>
<li>Knowledge of production monitoring tools.</li>
<li>2+ years of PERL scripting<br>
</li>
<li>Knowledge of enterprise network infrastructure, including WAN,
LAN architecture required.</li>
<li>Understanding 24x7 operation requirements and experience in a
process oriented working environment.</li>
<li>Experience with Puppet, CFEngine, PXE/Kickstart, iSCSI, SAN,
and Nagios, is a plus.</li>
</ul>
<p>The candidate must be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Motivated to explore new technologies and be able to apply
them to business problems.</li>
<li>Able to adapt to rapid change and have excellent communication
skills (verbal and written).</li>
<li>Self-motivated and able to function in a dynamic team
environment.</li>
<li>Experienced with working in a production 24x7 environment.</li>
<li>Have advanced problem-solving skills to research, analyze and
integrate knowledge.<br>
</li>
<li>Proven ability to logically organize information, and/or
online learning/Documentation systems.</li>
</ul>
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