<div>Hi, I'm posting this for a colleague here at Red Hat. He's the manager responsible for the lab space in the Westford MA office. They've got an opening for a SAGE level 3 (or high 2) system administrator to work in the datacenter/lab space. The job is full-time permanent. The hands-on requirements will limit telecommuting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The tasks run from physical installation of systems in racks, cabling, labeling, to storage hardware configuration and networking, to host OS installation configuration, monitoring.... All the kinds of things you'd expect in an active software lab. The lab space is run on behalf of the developers and the job will require working with the development teams to meet their needs, as well as with the corporate IT teams to work within security and stability constraints.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The job promises to be very dynamic and comes with all the tensions you'd expect when you sit in the middle of a group of smart people who all want their own thing and want you to give it to them. You'll have to ask Steve about the team environment. I think the team's small but the space isn't huge. It is changing constantly and there's a very broad range of hardware to deal with.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The people here are, in general both smart and reasonable. All of the people in the dev teams are here, so issues can be managed face-to-face. The lab space is clean, cool, spacious, and has been very well managed both physically and. system-administratively (??). There's lots of room for individual expression and doing the job that you think needs doing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is the kind of job I'd have jumped at six or eight years ago. Actually, its the kind of job I *did* do six or eight years ago, but the environment and people here are way better than where I was then.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Steve indicated that they're hot to hire someone quickly so they're likely to vet every query that comes in without a lot of delay.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://careers.redhat.com/ext/detail?redhat7962">https://careers.redhat.com/ext/detail?redhat7962</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Hiring manager is Steve Paulino <<a href="mailto:spaulino@redhat.com">spaulino@redhat.com</a>>. He's getting a copy of this so he can correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. Feel free to reply to me or to him directly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you're feeling really generous, when you post your resume on the jobs site, don't forget to mention my name.</div><div><br></div><div>- Mark</div><div><br></div><div>--- Repaste of official public job description ---</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>The Role:</div><div><br></div><div>Red Hat's Engineering Operations team is seeking a mid-level Systems Administrator with 2-3 years of systems administration experience to assist with the principal laboratories in the company's Engineering Headquarters in Westford, Mass.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The role's primary focus will be on the integration & maintenance of prototype & production hardware systems into the test infrastructure for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux development group.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ideal candidates will possess 2-3 years of Unix/Linux systems administration and have the ability to configure networking services and security on servers running a Red Hat OS; preferably RHCE certified. Must also possess outstanding troubleshooting skills and have worked with wide variety of hardware platforms and architectures.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The working environment is fast-paced with tight deadlines and shifting priorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Primary Responsibilities:</div><div><br></div><div>• Liaise with development teams to set priorities</div>
<div>• Integrate hardware into test infrastructure and maintain it</div><div>• Maintain, recommend and migrate SAN infrastructure for lab environments</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Job Requirements</div><div>• 2-3 years of Unix/Linux system admin experience; strongly prefer candidates that have earned RHCE certification</div>
<div>• Linux operating system installation, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance experience</div><div>• Networking technology at the physical (twisted pair, fiber optic) and logical (Ethernet, TCP/IP) level including the</div>
<div>various supporting services and protocols (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos)</div><div>• Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (shell/Python/Perl)</div><div>• Familiarity with various types of industry hardware (x86, AMD64, EM64T, IA64, S390/S390x, PowerPC)</div>
<div>• Netapp and EMC experience required. Equalogic and/or HP storage a plus.</div><div>• Close familiarity with SAN best practices</div><div>• End to end experience with storage stack</div><div>• Ability to read and interpret English language technical documents</div>
<div>• Ability to speak business level English</div><div>• Must possess judgment & negotiation skills, along with the ability to find successful resolutions for complex issues, escalating those that require management involvement, when necessary</div>
<div>• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision</div><div><br></div><div>•• Special Job Conditions: must be able to move and install computer systems and monitors, weighing approximately 50 pounds (23 kg). Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</div>
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