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		   Systems Administrator Job Search

Required skills:	

    Strong inter-personal and communication skills; capable of
	writing purchase justifications, training users in
	complex topics, and making presentations to an
	internal audience.
    Independent problem solving.
    Is comfortable with most aspects of UNIX systems
	administration; for example, configuration of mail
	systems, system installation and configuration,
	printing systems, fundamentals of security, installing
	third-party software.
    A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system;
	understands paging and swapping, inter-process
	communication, devices and what device drivers do,
	file system concepts ("inode", "superblock").
    Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing
	environment concepts; can configure NFS and NIS, can
	query for information in the DNS, understands basic 
	routing concepts.
    Independent problem solving; self-direction.
    Ability to write scripts in some administrative language
	(Tk, Perl, a shell).
    Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs.


Desired Skills

    Strong Sun, experience
    Some SGI, Novell, PC, Mac experience
    Cisco, ATM, or OC3 experience


Required background:

    Three to five years systems administration experience.  
     A degree in computer science or a related field.
     Significant programming background in C or C++.


Appropriate responsibilities:

   Receives general instructions for new responsibilities from 
	supervisor.
   Assist in the administration of a large network of heterogeneous
	machines
   Initiates some new responsibilities and helps to plan for the future
	of the system/network.
   Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence
	on purchasing process.


Environment:

    New York based production and development company for leading edge
	interactive television devices using custom display hardware
	based on a network of Suns attached to the Internet.  The
	company currently is in a growth stage and will soon be
	performing live interactive television trials in cities across
	the country linked by high speed (OC3) networks.


Please send resume to:

raj@columbia.edu

or

(Fax)

1-516-764-4748