Hi Folks, We're looking for a new sysadmin. There are multiple tools involved, but our largest systems are running mod_perl, so finding someone with expertise in that would be great. Job posting follows.
- Perrin Experienced Systems Administrator We Also Walk Dogs Location: Anywhere http://www.actionkit.com/ We need an experienced Linux systems administrator to help our clients -- progressive groups like MoveOn.org, Democracy for America and BoldProgressives.org -- change the face of politics. You will be responsible for deploying new applications and machines, building tools to improve the performance of our deployments, and responding to (and eliminating!) on-call alerts. We manage our own and our clients' growing infrastructure of 30 physical servers and 50-60 virtual machines. You must have experience managing production server clusters. You should also be familiar with most or all of these technologies: CentOS/RHEL, Perl, Python, Django, Subversion, MySQL, memcached, monitoring systems like Nagios or Ganglia, configuration management tools like Chef, and virtualization layers like Xen. You also need to know network configuration and equipment: firewalls, routers, load balancers, and the like. You must be a self-starter, capable of taking a project from start to finish without constant direct supervision. You need to be able to communicate clearly with your colleagues and clients via email, IM and phone. This is a full-time contract position. About We Also Walk Dogs -------------------------------------- We Also Walk Dogs is a small, close-knit team. We develop cutting-edge tools that power some of the biggest social change groups around; we're both a laboratory and an engine. Your co-workers are some of the best and brightest in the business. We Also Walk Dogs engineers have written books, built cutting-edge election tools and authored popular open source Perl and Python modules. We have a virtual office. You can live wherever you want and you'll be in touch with your colleagues by IM, email, and phone. Apply for this position ------------------------------- Send a quick summary of why you're the right person for this job, along with a resume, to Patrick Michael Kane at j...@wawd.com
