[SVLUG-Jobs] Sr. SuSE Linux System Administrator with DBA background (Cupertino)

[Joe White]

Title: Senior SuSE Linux System Administrator and Database Administrator

 
http://www.craigslist.org/sby/sad/43759100.html
<http://www.craigslist.org/sby/sad/43759100.html> 

Company: Navio Systems Inc., 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd Site 750,
Cupertino, CA 95014 
 
Company Description: Navio harnesses the power of tradable rights to
deliver relationships, retention, and revenue via any media or physical
touchpoint, on the Web or mobile phone. Navio's customers can instantly
enroll and transact with "always-on" consumers by delivering mobile and
downloadable products, coupons, or currencies in exchange for payments,
permissions, or campaign participation. Navio's customers include
content/service providers, "bricks and clicks" retailers, marketing
organizations, and media companies. The company operates an end-to-end
whole product solution on a secure, scaleable, ASP basis. See
http://www.navio.com <http://www.navio.com>  
 
Job Description: Navio is looking for a senior level SuSE linux system
and database administrator with 3-5 years of experience working in an
production support I.T. role in the internet commerce industry. This is
a full-time, salaried position, where the individual will spend the
majority of his or her time working directly with other Operations
personnel with some need to interface with our internal software
engineering group. The individual should have 7+ total years of systems
and database background. The person will be responsible establishing
operational production profiles, procedures and processes for system
maintenance, creating and conducting backup/recovery schemes, network
and system integration with the rest of our mixed system environments,
etc. Database administration tasks include performance monitoring,
database partitioning, index creation and rebuilding, and other tuning
parameters for optimal performance. 
 
The individual will need to be a proven leader that is able to "hit the
ground running" and define the system profiles, system
controls/access/maintenance procedures, as well as be a strong
generalist to be able to figure out integration and networking issues
with other network devices, appliances, and our applications. We need
someone who can be self-sufficient but also know when to escalate issues
to our management. The position requires a combination of technical
skills that extend beyond Linux/Unix. 
 
The job role calls for someone who is comfortable in building and
supporting production environments for 24 x 7 consumer applications.
This includes occasional system maintenance tasks during off peak hours.
The job role requires onsite presence at our Cupertino office. 
 
Skills and Responsibilities: Candidates who will be invited for
interviews must have the following characteristics - 

* Fluency in written and spoken English 
* Prior experience with consumer web-based e-commerce sites including
media or mobile entertainment industry content rich sites 
* Experience in high volume electronic commerce or Internet production
environments 
* Mastery SuSE Enterprise version 8 or 9 operating system 
* Previous experience with large scale Unix environments, dealing with
high transactional processing and network traffic volumes in redundant
system formats a plus 
* Superb organization and follow-through skills 
* Excellent attention to detail and documentation skills 
* Comfort with mixed production environments including Microsoft and
Linux 
* Extensive database administration and/or data architect skills. Native
XML database experience a plus 
* Extensive hands-on experience administrating, tuning, and database
application and server maintenance 
* Understanding of data storage, volume management, partitioning,
movement, and access of data from physical to application layers 
* Experience with IBM based hardware and SAN storage is a plus 
* Good interpersonal skills, team cooperation, and a strong
results-oriented work ethic 
* Experience with application administration such as web servers,
application servers, SMTP gateways, security devices, etc 
* No fear of dealing with software applications utilizing XML, XSLT,
JAVA, HTML, mobile oriented HTML/XML, XML databases, Apache Tomcat or
other java servlet engines, etc 
* Willingness to work with music, images, and videos that contain
content such as would be heard or seen on HBO (for example, hip hop
music lyrics) 

Contact: For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII), HTML,
or MS Word version of your resume to careers at navio.com
<mailto:careers at navio.com>  Benefits and other: E.O.E. Salary position
with full generous health and 401K benefits. 
 
Candidates should be eligible for immediate employment in the U.S. 

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Joe White
Senior Operations Security Officer
Navio Systems, Inc.
20400 Stevens Creek Blvd. Suite 750
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-777-2720 (Main Office)
408-777-2714 (Direct)
408-777-2790 (Fax)
joe at navio.com