Unix Network Admin - Orlando, Florida, USA

[Paul Emerson]

Global Technology Associates, Inc. (http://www.gta.com) is looking for a
network system admin with Unix experience, (see the requirements below).
GTA is a small privately held corporation founded in 1992 and located in
Orlando, Florida, USA.  We're FreeBSD-centric and have funded,
contributed and been involved in the BSD community since the company's
inception.  Our work environment is casual and easy going.

This position is open to US citizens, residents or those who hold a
valid work visa.



Position: Network System Administrator
Job ID: FBSD-20050630-001
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA

Required Skills

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
- Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; 
  for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and 
  configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing 
  third-party software.
- Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system;
understands 
  paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what 
  device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical 
  partitions).
- Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing
environment 
  concepts; can configure NFS and NIS, NT domains; can use nslookup or 
  dig to check information in the DNS; understands basic routing
concepts.
- Ability to write scripts in some administrative language 
  (Tk, Perl, PHP, a shell).
- Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs.

Required Background

- Three to five years of system administration experience.

Desirable Background and Skills

- A degree in computer science or a related field.
- Commercial firewall experience
- Experience with FreeBSD - stable, current, and release.
- Experience with Windows 2000/XP Professional and Server, Mac OSX.
- Experience with qmail and ezmlm-idx.
- Experience with Cisco routers running IOS, and configuring and 
  maintaining BGP.
- Experience with registering and maintaining route objects (radb,altdb,
etc).
- DNS experience: BIND, djbdns, experience dealing with registrars 
  such as Network Solutions, Godaddy, and ARIN.
- Significant programming background in any applicable language.

Appropriate Responsibilities

- Receives general instructions for new responsibilities from
supervisor.
- Administers a complex site alone or assists in the administration 
  of a larger site.
- Initiates some new responsibilities and helps to plan for the future 
  of the site/network.
- Manages novice system administrators or operators.
- Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence on
purchasing.

Helpful Experience

- Experience with MSDN licensing.
- Experience using and administering MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Filemaker 
  (replication experience is a plus)
- Experience installing, maintaining, and tuning Apache with mod_ssl 
  and mod_php.
- Experience configuring and maintaining Amanda for backups.
- Experience with a broad range of firewall products.
- Experience with network security, building firewalls, deploying 
  authentication systems and applying cryptography to network
applications
- Experience with network monitoring
- Experience with comprehensive site disaster recovery planning and
implementation.

If you are interested in this position please email your resume and
other related information to: jobs at gta.com, Subject: FBSD-20050630-001.