[clue] Fwd: Linux Engineer position/opportunity

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Lorin and CLUEbies,

Further to Lorin's e-mail, I'd like to mention that I work for LinkedIn in the Site Reliability Engineering organization and we are hiring technical people, sysadmin types, linux experts, etc.  I feel like lots of people on this list would be very capable of being SRE at LinkedIn.  Please e-mail me offlist with your LinkedIn profile URL and we can discuss the possibilities.  If you don't have a profile on LinkedIn (wat), you should create one right away and make it as awesome as you can.


LinkedIn is growing and we want to keep growing to become a $10BN dollar company.  Not many dot-coms have ever achieved that and our #1 priority is getting talent to make it happen.  The operations people (DevOps, really) like me are responsible for keeping the site up and running with high performance.


The SRE interviews cover things like Linux System Internals, web server config and troubleshooting (including debugging and fixing a malfunctioning apache server), programming (scripting, really), automation for large scale systems, website monitoring/alerting and alert triage, and so forth.  LinkedIn is a huge social networking website and we have "lots" of servers in "lots" of places.


Salary and benefits are amazing.  No seriously the benefits are amazing, and salary is competitive for bay area.  I always tell people I interview that if you get an offer from LinkedIn, you should take it.  Sure you have to pay Silicon Valley rent to live here, but you can live in nifty places like San Francisco and still have a reasonable life.  There's lots going on here in the Bay Area, I love it, except for maybe the occasional earthquake, not so much.  We don't really do remote workers - we have SRE teams in New York, Bangalore, and everyone else is in the Bay Area.


Jim


P.S. The software engineering group is also hiring aggressively.  There was a $10,000 referral bonus for that org recently.  That offer is expired now, I only mention it to give you an idea of the sense of urgency to get great talent.


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-----Original message-----
> From:Lorin Ricker <Lorin at RickerNet.us <mailto:Lorin at RickerNet.us> >
> Sent: Thursday 13th November 2014 19:59
> To: David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU <mailto:DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> >; David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us <mailto:anselmi at anselmi.us> >; Clue's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org <mailto:clue at cluedenver.org> >; Desi McAdam <desi at thoughtbot.com <mailto:desi at thoughtbot.com> >
> Subject: [clue] Fwd: Linux Engineer position/opportunity
> 
> Having been myself among the long-time unemployed, I hope to pass along 
> viable, quality employment opportunities when they show up -- See 
> attached message -- This is one such.  I know John Padilla, he runs a 
> high-quality technical staffing organization (as opposed to the body 
> trolls), so I trust that this is a solid lead.
> 
> "It is local (Greenwood Village), a long term contract 9 months+. The 
> compensation is in the $90,000 - $95,000 per year range depending on 
> experience."
> 
> Please share this among our communities, with anyone who's looking for 
> good work.  Hope it leads to something good for one of ours!...  Thanks!
> 
> -- Lorin
> 
> On 11/13/2014 02:28 PM, John Padilla wrote:
> >
> > Hi Lorin,
> >
> > I have a client in need of the following skill set and I wanted to see
> > if there is an engineer in your network that my team should talk to? I
> > appreciate any referrals.
> >
> > Position Description: Exceptional application analysis and design
> > skills, as well as thorough trouble-shooting capabilities. Responsible
> > for heavy Linux shell script programming using either Bash, 'C' or
> > Korn shell. Create linux-based deploy and automation scripts that are
> > fault tolerant, step restartable, and reusable.
> >
> > Experience Level: 6-10 Years.
> >
> > Skill Set: Linux, job processing, Security and control concepts. AWK
> > SED, CUT and etc..
> >
> > Must have : Linux OS and package management (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu).
> > Must have : Ruby development and bash scripting skills
> > Must have : Linux hardening & secure engineering.
> > Must have : Configuration management using Chef or Puppet (Chef
> > preferred).
> > Must have : experience configuration application servers: nginx,
> > apache etc.
> > Must have : AWK SED, CUT
> >
> > Should have : Experience with some of these: Jenkins, LAMP, Rails,
> > Nagios, Monit, Jenkins, Programming languages (PHP, Ruby, C++)
> >
> > Nice to have : Core AWS API’s and SDK’s for EC2, EBS, RDS, etc.
> > Preferred AWS CLI and AWS Ruby SDK.
> > Nice to have : Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking, R53 DNS and ELB
> > load balancing.
> > Nice to have : NoSQL and relational database configuration and management.
> >
> > John Padilla
> >
> > President
> >
> > Innovar Group
> > Direct: 303.554.2000 x 109 |Cell: 303.941.6113 |Brilliant Jobs Center
> > <http://www.innovargroup.com/job-seekers/careers/> <http://www.innovargroup.com/job-seekers/careers/&gt;> ;
> >
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