[BBLISA] Sysadmin position at CSAIL, MIT

[Jay Sekora]

Read on if you're looking for a combination sysadmin/user-support job
in the Boston area.  (Also, feel free to forward this to anybody you
know who is.)

Hi!  My group has an opening for a system administrator (with a lot of
end-user support and documentation mixed in).  This is at the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, based in the Stata Center
(apparently the beachhead of a recent Dalek invasion).

We are primarily a Linux shop (currently Debian; probably Ubuntu in 
the foreseeable future) with a lot of the sort of quirks you'd expect 
from an MIT lab (AFS, lots of homegrown stuff, people with root on 
their workstations, etc.).  We also have lots of Mac and Windows machines, 
and the person in this position will end up doing a fair amount of 
supporting Mac and Windows users, as well as Debian desktop support 
and system administration.

Our departing sysadmin (leaving for grad school) hopes to have as much
overlap as possible with the new hire.  He has an excellent and patient
way with users, good documentation skills (internal and user-facing), a
desire to do things the Right Way that will save us work down the road,
and the gumption to take on substantial projects, and we'd love to have
similar qualities in his successor.

You can see the MIT job posting at

    http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2616583&sn=I

and it's requisition number mit-00008609 in case that link stops
working for some reason.

In addition to filling out the (somewhat clunky, if I'm remembering
correctly) form to apply online, I would recommend you send a copy of
your resume and cover letter to my boss, Jack Costanza
<jackc at csail.mit.edu>.  (If you feel like it, you can also Cc: my work
address, jsekora at csail.mit.edu, but I'll eventually see well-suited
resumes in any case.)

Thanks!

Jay Sekora

PS -- A little about the group: There are four frontline sysadmins,
with varying areas of specialization, two senior Linux sysadmins, a
network administrator, a database/web-app developer, and my boss, as
well as several operations and communications people whom the sysadmins
don't work quite as closely with.  It's a good environment for people
who like teamwork in the face of interesting challenges, although it's
also a place where one person can bite off a large project and go solve
it independently.