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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cambridge, MA – Salary up to 150K<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Do you consider yourself and expert at running high volume web application data centers? Are you up for the challenge of optimizing technical operations for a multi-platform (web and mobile) social networking application company? If these things excite you, then we would like to talk to you about our opportunity! <br><br>The Systems Operations Team Lead is senior position that will be responsible for leading the Online Buddies (OLB) Systems team in day-to-day technical operation of our market leading social network applications. This would include multiple, high volume, high availability websites and multi-platform mobile companion applications. <br><br>The role will report to the CTO and be responsible for leading and directing the day to day priorities of a small team (4) of systems engineers. The successful candidate will be someone that has current experience in running high volume, high availability commercial websites across multiple data centers. Must be able to lead the team in efficient day-to-day operation and support, as well as drive ongoing technical operational improvement initiatives. Must have knowledge and skills in LAMP system admin as well as network and firewall management and configuration. Will need to work collaboratively with Product Development and QA organizations as part of regular production updates. This person will own and be responsible for working with and managing vendors and negotiating contracts where needed. <br> <br><br><b>RESPONSIBILITIES:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Work under the high level direction of the CTO to maintain the overall stability and robustness and ongoing continuous improvement of OLB data center operations in support the business objectives; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Serve as a hands on contributor to several key infrastructure projects, such as network and firewall upgrades, Linux webserver upgrade and configuration management; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Provide oversight of all data center activities including new software production updates, new hardware and software installations, upgrades, and maintenance and risk mitigation; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Responsible for coordinating and participating in compliance related activities including PCI compliance and routine security assessments and compliance; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Take the lead to refine appropriate processes controls such as availability management, capacity management, change management, service level management, configuration management, incident and problem management;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ensure proper level of management and oversight of vendor resource in meeting contracted support and delivery obligations; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cross-collaborate with the program and product development/QA team members to meet requirements of regular production site updates as part of our Agile development and deployment process; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Define and execute annual budget in support of the systems operations. Participate in infrastructure meetings, including planning meetings, project meetings, vendor reviews and incident meetings. Continually review budget/spend to ensure budget goals are met; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lead and develop engineers in team. Manage and in some cases develop individual systems engineers. Be effective at delegating work to other Systems engineers. Ensure that critical skills and knowledge are distributed and backed up (e.g. primary and back-up resource) across the Systems Engineering team; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Work collaboratively with QA and Development and Software Tools teams on supporting quality initiatives. This will involve both defining and driving key Systems level quality improvements, as well as supporting the needs of the QA Manager in driving overall IT wide Quality goals; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Maintain and support where needed the 24x7 technical support process provided by the Systems Engineering team; <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>EDUCATION AND TRAINING:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>BS degree required in computer science or related technical field. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>GENERAL TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>10 years + of experience in operating and maintaining a high volume commercial web site or data center. Desired experience working in an LAMP technology e-Commerce and/or social networking web sites; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have broad operation data center operations background combined with quality, continuous improvement, high scale/high availability;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Must have a hands-on working knowledge of common systems (network, firewall and web/app server) configuration best practices and latest monitoring, and application tuning techniques. Specifically have experience with Linux web server environments with CentOS/Apache. Also have very strong knowledge of network (Brocade), router, switch, firewall (Cisco/Juniper) and Loadbalancers (F5) setup, installation, management, tuning and monitoring; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Be proficient in monitoring and debugging systems environments at web server and network/switch/firewall/load balancer. Be capable of looking at log files as part of trouble shooting and root cause analysis; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Must display a solid track record or leading technical teams in support of data center operations. Looking for proven experience to serve as “player-coach” to lead and develop technical teams to higher levels of performance. Typically would be 70% hands on work and 30% team lead responsibilities; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Experience with web based applications – with technology experience with LAMP stack; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Be familiar with Agile development process and rapid (2 week) release cycles. Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Must have strong analytical and data driven problem-solving skill; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Experience in leading and participating in data center governance (compliance, internal and external audit). Also have experience in managing strategic relationships with key IT product and service providers. This would include development of RFP’s, and negotiation of contracts and purchase agreements with key vendors; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations with a calm demeanor; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Willingness to work rare occasional evenings and weekends in support of deployments or in support of on-call escalations of production issues as part of technical support role provided by Systems Engineering team. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For more information or to apply online, visit http://www.online-buddies.com.<br><br>(No phone inquiries, please.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#EE3F23'>__________________________<br></span><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Don Harpin<br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'>Director, Human Resources<br>Online Buddies, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.online-buddies.com"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.online-buddies.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:blue'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'><br>Main: 617-225-2727<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'>Direct: 617-674-8949<br>Mobile: 617-823-4240<br>Direct Fax: 617-674-8881<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This transmission contains confidential and/or legally privileged information from Online Buddies, Inc. or affiliated entities intended only for the use of the individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this information or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>