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Production Engineer for Yahoo

Subject: Production Engineer for Yahoo
From: jobs-admin@xxxxxxxx (Perl Jobs)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:17:49 -0700 (PDT)
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Posted: July 15, 2008

Job title: Production Engineer for Yahoo

Company name: Yahoo

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Description:
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 one of Santa Clara, CA; New York,
NY; Bangalore, Karnataka, IN.

Responsibilities

* Administer Linux 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
* Work with development teams to harden, enhance, and generally improve the
operability of our systems
* 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 

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 

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/9218#contact



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