[nylug-talk] [nylug-job] OkCupid seeks Platform Engineer

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* JobID: #513
* Submitted On: 2006-11-1 14:54:4

* Company: OkCupid
* Contact: Steven Kreuzer,
* Email:  jobs at okcupid.com
* Url: http://www.okcupid.com
* Phone: Not Specified
* Fax: Not Specified

* Title: Platform Engineer

* Salary: Not Specified

* Description: OkCupid.com is a well-financed, rapidly growing free
  online dating site. We run a high-performance match-making website on
  an array of FreeBSD servers at our colo facility in Manhattan. We seek
  a full-time Platform Engineer to be a Jack-of-All-Trades responsible
  for designing, developing, and maintaining OkCupid's hardware, OS, and
  development platform. This is not a telecommute or contract position;
  generous salary, equity, and benefits commensurate with experience.

* Required Skills: Responsibilities Include:
  o Running regular build and deployment cycles
  o Managing and administering our build system and process
  o Lead upcoming hardware and network expansion
  o Monitoring internal network and external CDN for problems
  o Installing and upgrading FreeBSD, applications, and libraries on new
    servers
  o Assisting software developers to optimize applications and servers
  o Designing, maintaining, and growing our offsite server cabinets
  o Supporting and troubleshooting basic desktop hardware for up to 15
    employees

  Qualifications:
  o System administration: comfort with compiler flags, kernel modules,
    etc.
  o GNU make tools (make, autoconf, etc.)
  o Subversion or CVS
  o Extensive Unix experience managing multiple servers on complex
    networks using free, automated, open-source tools
  o Networking: switches, routers, DNS, firewalls, load balancers,
    Ethernet bonding, link aggregation, tagged VLANs, spanning trees,
    SNMP monitoring
  o Strong Perl, Python, and shell scripting
  o Hardware: BIOS settings, hardware RAID arrays, etc.
  o Security: firewalls, intrusion detection, auditing, etc.
  o Databases: SQL, MySQL, table indexing, and backing up live databases


* Location: New York City, NY