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Article #1640NYC Unix Systems Administrator Job Search
From: Raj Sharma
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 00:22
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 00:22
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Multiple openings for experienced admins are immediately available in
our growing cutting edge firm.
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Unix 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
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