[BBLISA] Another sysadmin position at CSAIL, MIT

[Jay Sekora]

If this looks familiar, it's because this is the second vacancy in a few
months in my group for a front-line sysadmin position.  This opening
has the same job title as the one I posted on April 25, but for this
particular person's duties and projects we need more emphasis on strong
Linux troubleshooting and administration skills, and Mac and Windows
tech-support skills are somewhat less important (although we need somebody
who can fill in on that as well).

So, read on if you're looking for a sysadmin/user-support job in the
Boston area; otherwise, forward this to anybody you know who is.

Hi!  My group has *another* 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.

We are primarily a Linux shop (currently Debian with Ubuntu in beta)
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.

For this particular position, experience managing tape backups,
experience with automated Debian/Ubuntu deployment (especially Puppet
which we're moving to and/or CFengine which all our config is in now),
and virtualization (especially OpenStack) would be very appealing.

You can see the MIT job posting at

    http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2630662&sn=I

and it's requisition number mit-00008858 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>,
becuase he seems not to be getting resumes in as timely a fashion as
we would like, and I'd love it if you felt like Cc'ing my work address,
jsekora at csail.mit.edu.  If you have questions about the work environment
or the group, you can send them to my work address or here, whichever
you prefer, HOWEVER, I will be away for a funeral until Thursday, so
you'll probably get a timelier response from Jack than from me.

Thanks!

Jay Sekora

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