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Senior Consultant/ Unix Systems Administrator

A client that I have been consulting with is looking for a Unix
Administrator to deliver on-site support to a critical client in the
Boston area.

This is the job description as posted:

As a Senior Consultant, you work side-by-side with the customer to
maintain and expand their computing and network infrastructure. You
should have experience and/or familiarity with a fast pace environment
with proven results. Experience and/or desire to work in a research and
development organization is imperative. You must be team oriented, have
strong communication skills, and must be able to work independently and
further the goals of the organization without immediate direction. It
is also important to be comfortable dealing with fairly technical
end-users.

Responsibilities include:
· Installation, configuration, and maintenance of infrastructure
servers
· Evaluation of High-Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clustering
technologies and products, which may include Sun Grid Engine and Condor
· Linux cluster performance tuning, maintenance, and monitoring (Big
Brother, Nagios, Ganglia)
· Cluster file service performance tuning, which may include IBRIX
Fusion, HP Scalable File Share (HP SFS), NFS, and Samba
· Implementation of automated installation methods for clustered
systems (Kickstart, NPACI ROCKS)
· Network and data storage management and planning
· General-purpose systems administration including shell scripting,
software installation (packages and building from source), backup and
recovery, documentation, etc.
· Management of directory services and source code repositories (CVS,
Subversion)
· Installation and configuration of workstations including dual-boot
systems

Experience with most of the following technologies:
· 5+ years in a sysadmin role, supporting multiple operating systems
and hardware platforms
· Expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
· Sun Solaris
· Familiarity with open source tools, both using common software and
building from source
· NFS and Samba file services
· Directory administration (NIS and BIND)
· CVS and Subversion
· Apache HTTP Server
· Hardware and software RAID, LVM
· Printing services using CUPS

Experience with the following technologies would be a plus:
· Network Appliance Filers
· Mac OS X desktop and server
· Linux clustering
· Active Directory authentication
· Other Linux distributions (SUSE, Debian)

"North" <stra2d@yahoo.com> writes:

> You [ ... ] must be able to work independently and
> further the goals of the organization without immediate direction.

What is this supposed to mean?


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Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:

> "North" <stra2d@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>> You [ ... ] must be able to work independently and
>>further the goals of the organization without immediate direction.
>
>
> What is this supposed to mean?
>
>

Well, it's dangerous to guess what someone else means but my guess would
be that they are looking for someone who works well with very little
supervision. You are supposed to see what the problems are and solve them.

Be sure to charge them extra for this service.

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:55:04 -0500
Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> "North" <stra2d@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > You [ ... ] must be able to work independently and
> > further the goals of the organization without immediate direction.
>
> What is this supposed to mean?

The organisation has no immediate direction (all too common :-) and
you're supposed to divine where they're going and take the blame
when you got it wrong :-)

--
Stefaan
--
As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning,
and meaningful statements lose precision. -- Lotfi Zadeh

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:06:41 +0100,
Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu>, in
<20060309090641.dddc713b.hoendech@ecc.lu> wrote:

>+ The organisation has no immediate direction (all too common :-) and
>+ you're supposed to divine where they're going and take the blame
>+ when you got it wrong :-)

I thought "taking the blame" was what Marketing was for? am I wrong?

--
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I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow
isn't looking good, either.
I am BOFH. Resistance is futile. Your network will be assimilated.

On 9 Mar 2006 18:40:23 GMT
hfrarg@nttvr2x3.pbgfr.arg (I R A Darth Aggie) wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:06:41 +0100,
> Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu>, in
> <20060309090641.dddc713b.hoendech@ecc.lu> wrote:
>
> >+ The organisation has no immediate direction (all too common :-) and
> >+ you're supposed to divine where they're going and take the blame
> >+ when you got it wrong :-)
>
> I thought "taking the blame" was what Marketing was for? am I wrong?

Dead wrong. Marketing is supposed to define strategic directions but
because they mistake "the next bonus" for long term their directions
are about as stable as a compass at the North Pole.

Technical management is supposed to optimise the use of expensive
equipment and the even more expensive technical staff (who are, by
definition, lazy whiners). But because they are totally non-technical
(an essential criterion for technical managers) they fail miserably on
both counts. Fortunately, this is easily solved by buying new equipment
and hiring youngsters without any experience. Both being less expensive
than what they replace, this cannot be anything else but superlative
management acumen. The most respected managers buy equipment before
knowing what to do with it, secure in the knowledge that there will be
a staff member to blame when it cannot be put to good use. They are
adored by the top managers of their suppliers, who happen to play golf
with the technical manager's top manager.

Apart from playing golf, top management is supposed to organise
take-overs, indulge in creative accounting (like mistaking combined
turnovers for "growth", leading to the concept of "organic growth" for
growth that is not the result of buying another outfit), outsourcing and
firing staff. This requires a brilliant intellect that can only blossom
when paid in excess of $1M per year while remaining totally
disconnected from the distractions of actually running a company.

--
Stefaan
--
As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning,
and meaningful statements lose precision. -- Lotfi Zadeh