Small, fast paced development team in San Diego is looking for an experienced part-time System Administrator specializing on Linux servers and Rails platform.
Responsibilities: * Install and configure Linux servers, databases, monitoring tools, * Setup development and source control environments, * Maintain the integrity and security of servers, * Perform scheduled system monitoring, availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, * Review system and application logs to identify any possible intrusions, and verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups, * Perform ongoing performance tuning, updates, and resource optimization as required. Ideal candidates have the following skill set: * 5+ years Linux server administration experience, * 3+ years Rails applications deployment, * Solid experience with multi-server enterprise environment/ deployments, * Experience building HA and failover scenarios, load balanced environments, * Practical experience with Apache, * Knowledge of bash and Perl/Python/Ruby shell scripting, * Strong knowledge of the underpinnings of deploying and launching Rails apps, e.g. Capistrano, Passenger, * PostgreSQL skills, namely, the ability to setup and maintain a production database for a working rails application, * Significant experience with Git version control system. The ability to setup and maintain a multi environment source control scheme, * Experience with monitoring tools (Monit, New Relic, pgFouine, etc.), * Ability to work closely and collaboratively with a small team of backend developers, * Bachelor degree, with a technical major, such as Computer Science/IS or equivalent experience, Definite nice-to-haves: * Experience developing websites with Ruby on Rails, * Experience with RVM, * Good programming skills, * Experience in migrating a rails 2 app to a rails 3 app, * Familiarity with JavaScript, and client-side development experience, using jQuery or similar. This is an opportunity to work remotely, but in case of disaster, candidate must be available shortly to "login and recover". Pay rate is based on experience and reliability. Please submit your resume to [email protected] Direct applicants only. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
