The list of requirements looks reasonable<div>for an SA with 5 to 7 years experience.</div><div><br></div><div>What is the list of desired skills meant to</div><div>do? Does anyone at your company now</div><div>begin to have proficiency at most of those</div>
<div>items? What fraction of those items would</div><div>you reasonably expect any one person to </div><div>have solid experience with?</div><div><br></div><div>I was lucky enough to never need to find</div><div>a job, but when I did look at postings like</div>
<div>this I usually thought "why not add must</div><div>be able to walk on water too?" I would </div><div>hope a person that did begin to meet the</div><div>hoped for qualifications was at least offered</div><div>
a big bag of money, because they could </div><div>surely get it somewhere. Otherwise, hope </div><div>your ad doesn't scare away reasonably </div><div>qualified people. Anyone knowing of a </div><div>person that good would probably hire them</div>
<div>themselves.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Rob Geer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robg@mgmtbsolutions.com">robg@mgmtbsolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I
am currently working on a Linux System Administrator and wanted to see if GLLUG
knew of anyone that may be interested in this opportunity in Ann Arbor.
Here is a description of the position:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Requirements:</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">3-7 years
hands-on experience in technical operations as a Linux sysadmin
(RedHat/Centos/Fedora-distributions preferred. Other flavors a plus)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Rock solid
Linux systems administration troubleshooting, automatic scheduling
(cron/at/GNUbatch), monitoring (Nagios), system configuration, tuning
& optimization, performance analysis, backups and recovery</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Expertise in
Perl and shell scripting. Knowledge of Python or Ruby a plus</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Basic SQL
skills (PL/SQL). Relational database administration experience (e.g.
Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL).</span></li>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Desired Skills:</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Experience
with high volume internet applications highly desired</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Monitoring
tools: Nagios, BigBrother, Splunk, Gomez, Keynote, Nimbus, Sitescope</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Knowledge of
Email Deliverability, Email Service Providers, spam filtering
technologies, DNS blacklists, feedback loops, whitelisting and email
protocols.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Commercial
experience on administering scalable, multi-tenant, on-demand SaaS
solutions using open source technologies: Web (Apache, Tomcat), Mail/SMTP
(Postfix, sendmail, qmail), DNS/Bind, Perl, vsftpd</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Familiarity
with Java/JDK, Ant, Bugzilla, Subversion (SVN), CruiseControl, rsync, ssh,
Netapp (NFS), Cognos, screen, make</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Networking
Experience - TCP/IP, administration of networking hardware (Cisco,
SonicWall, etc.), network monitoring, routing, load Balancing, firewalls</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank
you,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Here's
to Valuing Relationships and Delivering Results, </span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Rob Geer</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Phone: (616) 855-6315
· Email: <a href="mailto:robg@mgmtbsolutions.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">robg@mgmtbsolutions.com</span></a><br>
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