[olug] net / sys admin opportunity

[Ryan O'Rourke]

Hello all. Please excuse the cross-posting but I thought this might be
of interest to someone out there.

I've just accepted a new job in Minneapolis and therefore my current
position will be available mid-August.
This is not an "official" job posting, but my supervisor has asked me to
start getting the word out to the local LUGs in hopes of filling the
position quickly.
Contact me off-list if you are interested and I'll get you my
supervisor's contact information.

About the company:
Coach House Gifts is a nationwide chain of retail card/gift stores whose
corporate headquarters is based in the Aspen Business Park in Ames, IA.
We were basically a Windows 98/NT shop until a couple years ago when we
started to integrate Linux and open source into the picture. This
migration continues today.

About the position:
Our IT shop is pretty small so there isn't much, if any, politics to
deal with. You would basically be a one-person show with much freedom to
work on self-appointed projects that help to better our systems and
network. 
Another duty is the administration of a 130 node frame-relay WAN.
Basically, monitoring the WAN just involves keeping an eye on Nagios
alerts and calling AT&T to open trouble tickets if the need arises.

The configuration and administration of production servers for
application developer usage is also an important duty. These servers are
currently all RedHat 7.2 - 9.0 running Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Oracle
client libraries in order to talk to our main database.

Some RS/6000 AIX administration is also necessary (although rare), but
we have full support on that box so that basically just boils down to
being able to dial a phone and follow instructions given to you by a
tech support person.

Your supervisor would be excellent. I can hardly imagine a better boss.
As long as you're doing something that helps out our network or makes
things more efficient he stays off your back. When he really needs
something done he'll throw a project at you.
Your immediate co-workers all have a passion and desire for Linux and
all things open source. Most of the IT department already runs Fedora
Core 1 on their desktops and you can too! Actually, you could run
whatever you want on your desktop.
Of course, there is also a little office end user support thrown in to
boot.

Requirements (or ability to learn them before you interview):
1. Intermediate Linux and NT administration skills
2. Fluent iptables and firewall building skills (your first project will
be replacing our firewall)
3. Samba
4. Knowledge of network protocols and routing
5. Squid web proxy
6. Squirrelmail
7. Personable, people skills
8. Apache
9. Security minded and the ability to lay down some ground rules and
enforce them.
10. IPSEC VPN setup and administration

Helpful skills (or ability to pick them up quickly):
1. Knowledge of Nagios network monitor
2. PHP
3. Perl
4. Shell scripting
5. Knowledge of how business is conducted within the telecomm world
(dealing with LECs, understanding the chain of command to run down when
something needs fixed, etc)
6. ProFTPd, VSFTP
7. OpenLDAP or some other domain authentication scheme
8. Cisco IOS 12.0 for WAN router administration
9. F-Secure antivirus
10. Experience installing LAMP with Oracle client libraries is a huge
plus
11. PoPToP VPN server
12. Hylafax 

Some upcoming projects you would take control of:
1. Build a new firewall for our corporation. If you can translate from
ipchains to iptables you're set.
2. Migrating the following NT servers to their free OS equivalents:
   RAS
   PDC (domain authentication)
   Exchange (possibility of moving to a Scalix or SuSE Open Exchange
environment in the near future)
3. Drop a Spamassassin / Sendmail system in front of our current
Exchange system to cut down on spam and virus email.
4. Our current VPN is PPTP but it needs to be moved to IPSEC
5. Build a Hylafax server to enable users to send and receive faxes from
their email client

Basically you would be in a relaxed environment where you have the
freedom to "get it done". Our IT director is pro open source and is more
than willing to entertain any ideas you might have about their
integration within the network. The amount of Windows NT you have to
deal with is inversely proportional to how fast you can replace those
servers. If you have a plan for migrating an office full of Windows
users to open source you can start on that next.

Heck, if you can complete the above mentioned projects in under three
week's time and want a contracting job just drop me a line and we'll hook you
up.

Added bonuses:
1. People think you're God when you can make their email appear in front
of them in a web browser even though they're all the way down in Mexico.

2. You get to be a part of SCO eradication. We still have some
straggling SCO boxen out in the field that are begging to be shot dead.

Downsides:
1. For some reason people here pronounce The Editor known as "vee eye"
as "vy" and the database called "My Ess Que Ell" as "my sequel". That seriously
gets on my nerves.