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Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/8384
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Posted: April 7, 2008
Job title: Production Engineer, Web Search
Company name: Yahoo!
Internal ID: 12665
Location: United States, CA, Santa Clara
Travel: 0%
Hours: Full time
Onsite: yes
Description:
Position: Production Engineer, Web Search
Location: Santa Clara
Job ID: 12665
Production Engineer, Web Search
The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out
in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a
half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to
delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.
In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked
Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big
ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative
products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for
people like you.
How Big Can You Think?
Production Engineers at Yahoo! thrive on the scale and mission-critical
nature of our complex ad serving runtime as well as the challenge that
comes along with its operation. In this critical role, you'll utilize your
rare combination of significant UNIX systems experience, network knowledge,
troubleshooting skills and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor,
and automate all operational aspects of Yahoo!'s revenue critical ad
serving systems.
The ideal candidate has strong Perl programming skills as well as an
extensive background in large-scale system administration. S/he will work
directly with design and development teams, and will participate in all
phases of software development from planning, design, implementation,
testing, deployment, and day-to-day service operation.
This is a full time position located in Santa Clara, CA.
Responsibilities
* Administer Linux and clusters, monitor their health and performance
* Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration and monitoring
of a large-scale Linux environment
* Gain deep application-level knowledge of the serving systems as well as
contributing to their overall design
* Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate
our constant growth
* Contribute to the documentation of our complex environment
* Participate in a 12x7 (daylight hours) on-call pager rotation
Minimum Job Qualifications
* Extensive system administration background
* Strong Perl programming skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Experience working with development teams
Preferred Job Qualifications
* 4+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
* 4+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP
background a plus)
* BS Computer Science
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to
search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.
Required skills:
* Extensive system administration background
* Strong Perl programming skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Experience working with development teams
Desired skills:
* 4+ years experience with Linux (RHEL a plus)
* 4+ years experience administering large-scale UNIX installations (ISP
background a plus)
* BS Computer Science
URL for more information: http://www.yahoo.com/
Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/8384#contact
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