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Today's Topics:

1. Operational Systems Administrator at Canonical Ltd. (LA Jobs List)
2. Technical Support - Anchor Systems (LA Jobs List)
3. System Administrator - Anchor Systems (LA Jobs List)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:36:46 +1100
From: LA Jobs List <jobs@lists.linux.org.au>
Subject: [LA-Jobs] Operational Systems Administrator at Canonical Ltd.
To: jobs@lists.linux.org.au
Message-ID: <E1TeKDO-0002fx-DB@morton.linux.org.au>
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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/operational-systems-administrator-canonical-ltd
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Role Summary:

Part of the distributed operational systems administration team for Canonical
Ltd., while the responsibilites for deployment, database maintenance and
monitoring of numerous large scale public-facing web applications including
Launchpad (launchpad.net), Ubuntu One (one.ubuntu.com) and Landscape
(landscape.canonical.com). This role will be home based in Asia Pacific.



Key responsibilities/accountabilities:

* Carry out regular roll-outs of production and staging systems
* Response to outage/issues on the production and non-production environments
* Work with members of QA teams to diagnose problems on production and
staging systems
* Coordinate with the development team on testing and roll out of new code
* Longer term tasks typically providing infrastructure for new features on
the products we maintain
* Maintaining and in some cases creating reporting tools to analyze feature
use/projects progress
* Develop replication and fail-over strategies for availability and scaling
* Documenting all of the above, and automating where possible


Required skills and experience:

* Good interpersonal interactions with customer (internal developers) and
other members of the team
* Solid Linux systems administration skills (scripting etc.)
* Understood how to manage and maintain a secure computing environment and
how to articulate security concerns
* Good knowledge and experience with web and application services including
caching and balancing
* Good revision control skills particularly multi branch development and
cherry picking
* Able to communicate clearly in English, especially using email and instant
messaging
* Candidate needs to be self-driven, results-orientated and have a positive
outlook. Attention to detail, good interaction with customers and personal
motivation are key attributed to the success of this role


Desirable skills and experience:

* Experience managing clusters of Linux servers, particularly load balancing,
rolling upgrades and managing a changing code base across multiple servers
with minimal downtime and maximum stability
* Relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL, ideally 9.1 in a
large replicated environment
* Python experience would be beneficial
* Experience with monitoring systems such as Cricket/Nagios would be
advantageous
* Some familiarity with emerging/popular technologies such as NoSQL
Databases/Message Queues, etc. as well as JuJu
* Familiarity with Ubuntu would be beneficial

Contact: haw.loeung@canonical.com

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:36:59 +1100
From: LA Jobs List <jobs@lists.linux.org.au>
Subject: [LA-Jobs] Technical Support - Anchor Systems
To: jobs@lists.linux.org.au
Message-ID: <E1TeKDb-0002gq-1u@morton.linux.org.au>
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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/technical-support-anchor-systems-0
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Are you after a technical support job which involves more thinking than the
average toaster? Are you able to *love* our customers? Well we may just have
the job that you are looking for...

Anchor is looking for an enthusiastic and talented technical support
representative. We are a leading managed hosting provider in the Australian
market, providing domain name registrations, web site hosting, managed
dedicated and virtual servers.

In this role, whilst helping our customers and keeping them happy, you will
have the opportunity to advance your customer support and systems
administration skills by learning from talented people at a respected name in
the industry.

- Our technical support representatives: -

* Have excellent communication skills and a good phone manner
* Get a buzz out of assisting helpless customers
* Are keen and creative, able to quickly identify problems and embiggen
customer satisfaction
* Stay abreast of current web development trends and technologies
* Have a little bit of experience with Linux and Windows system
administration (they know their way around a shell)
* Have obsessive-compulsive attention to detail
* Get exposed to lots of new technologies on a daily basis; they learn
quickly like a ninja but remember like an elephant

- Responsibilities in this position include: -

* General support: domain name registration, DNS, MTAs, web servers, user
account management, database administration
* Order processing: hosting accounts, domain name registration, SSL
certificates
* Keeping our customers happy!

- Why Anchor should be your home away from home -

* Our kick-ass office is right next door to Town Hall station, and many bus
stops are within 1-2 blocks
* Workstations with huge screens
* Well-stocked drinks fridge
* Company lunch every Friday, visiting one of the many of the nearby eateries
* Transparent, no-nonsense and trusting environment ? if we hire you we
know you?ll do the right thing
* Some of the best coffee in the city is just across the road

- How to apply -

The position is full-time, at our Sydney CBD office available for an
immediate start. Remuneration commensurate with ability.

Please send your application to jobs@anchor.com.au.

Be sure to include a cover letter and an up-to-date resume in plain-text or
PDF format.


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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:37:35 +1100
From: LA Jobs List <jobs@lists.linux.org.au>
Subject: [LA-Jobs] System Administrator - Anchor Systems
To: jobs@lists.linux.org.au
Message-ID: <E1TeKEB-0002iG-6M@morton.linux.org.au>
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A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.
http://linux.org.au/system-administrator-anchor-systems-5
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Are you an enthusiastic and scarily capable Linux sysadmin? We want you in
our Sydney office, Right Now.

Anchor makes the best custom web hosting solutions in Australia. We build to
a spec, not to a budget.

Your job will be to lovingly configure and maintain servers for customers.
Make no mistake, this isn't a cPanel or Plesk shop; you'll be getting your
hands dirty solving interesting problems, and automating ALL the things. We
do things the right way, not the cheap way.

You'll be working in a casual and fun environment with a team of equally
sharp-minded geeks. Like them, you know how to Get Things Done. Above all,
you're a passionate and pragmatic problem-solver. You'll do the right thing
by our customers, and give them the solutions they ''need''.

Anchor is a supportive work environment that encourages learning. You can
expect to learn a lot here, and at the same time you'll give back to others.

= Your day to day responsibilities will include: =

* Maintaining customer systems, dealing with submitted tickets and
responding to customer enquiries efficiently
* Proactively handling problems before our customers even know about them
* Identifying deficiencies in our infrastructure and fixing them
* Mentoring your colleagues to help them expand their skills
* Automating yourself out of the job
* Improving existing systems and processes to better support our customers
and your colleagues

= To perform well in this role, you will have: =

* Good time management and task prioritisation skills
* A methodical and principled approach to troubleshooting and problem
diagnosis
* The ability to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues
* A strong self-motivation to learn new skills and technologies
* Strong proficiency with at least one programming language
* A solid understanding of security best-practices and theory
* A strong desire to see constant improvement in yourself and the tools and
processes you use
* 2+ years of operational experience managing GNU/Linux server systems

= We use these technologies on a day to day basis. The more of these you are
familiar with, the better; the rest you will learn: =
* GNU/Linux: Debian, CentOS, RHEL
* Web servers: nginx, Apache
* DBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL
* Virtualisation: KVM
* Configuration Management: Puppet
* High Availability: Pacemaker, Corosync, DRBD
* Networking: IPVS/ldirectord, iptables


= Why Anchor should be your home away from home =

* Our kick-ass office is right next door to Town Hall station, and many bus
stops are within 1-2 blocks
* Workstations with huge screens and your favourite peripherals, your choice
of a desktop or laptop
* Well-stocked drinks fridge
* Company lunch every Friday, visiting one of the many of the nearby
eateries
* Transparent, no-nonsense and trusting environment - if we hire you we know
you'll do the right thing
* Flexible working hours, because fitting in personal commitments shouldn't
be difficult
* Some of the best coffee in the city is just across the road
* We'll send you off to attend conferences like Linuxconf and Pycon, all
expenses paid

Contact: jobs@anchor.com.au

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