Patty,
I reviewed your resume on line and it is impressive. Unfortunately, I do not have any opportunities located in your area at this time. Based on your outstanding background, I would like to keep your resume and contact you when I come across something else you may be interested in.
Due to your excellent industry experience, I was hoping you could help me out and refer me to a Windows Administrator/ Helpdesk Analyst or Network Engineer or Solaris Administrator or Sr/Lead Oracle DBA or OO Perl Developer or an Open Source QA Engineer (PHP/Perl) or an OO PHP or OO Perl Developer LAMP Developer (PHP or Perl) or Linux Admin that you have worked with or know of that would be interested in the following positions I have available. See below for detailed job descriptions. If you prefer, please visit www.equestsolutions .com for all open positions.
I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide me and would be happy to provide you with a $500 referral fee for any resulting placement.
Windows Administrator/ Helpdesk Analyst
Location: West LA , CA
Salary: $60-70K + OT + bonus
A leading Global ASP, Application Service Provider, is looking for a Windows Admin/Desktop Support candidate. This private company has been in business for 10+ years, has 300+ employees and has 100+ large Fortune 100 and 500 clients located across the globe.
Currently, the department consists of 1 Sr Windows Administrator and 1 full time Helpdesk Support Analyst. The Company is looking for a candidate to fill the gap between the two in the department by acting both as a Windows Administrator and providing second level Helpdesk/Desktop support to the 300+ desktops/laptops. This person will spend 70% of their time assisting the current Sr Windows Administrator in the administration of 30+ Windows 2003 servers and 30% of their time providing Desktop support for 300+ IBM/Windows 2003 PC’s.
Windows Administration
The Windows Administrator will be responsible for the daily administration, set-up, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, back up and disaster recovery of a 30 Windows 2003 servers running on HP Proliant hardware and IBM’s Bladecentre. The servers are primarily used for AD, Exchange 2000/2003, Print/File, PBX and Corporate Applications. The Windows Administrator will be responsible for user and group account administration, designing Active Directory site setups, build secure file/directory structure via Active Directory, creating and managing group policies and monitoring and resolving and reporting performance levels of the network. The Windows Admin may be responsible for maintenance and management of Public Folders, Mailboxes, and Distribution Lists architectures, clean up, directory synchronization, mailbox archiving, Exchange message routing and transports, Directory Services, Outlook Client, Public Folders, Certificate Services and addition/deletion/ cleanup of email accounts/IDs and related Security. The company is currently utilizing Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec for backups.
Helpdesk
As a Helpdesk/Desktop Support Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting, troubleshooting, new installs, upgrades and migrations for 300+ corporate users (50 remote) running Microsoft Windows XP Professional, MS Office 2003 and Outlook 2003 running on IBM desktops and notebooks. These are intense and technical users of Windows and MS Office, with a lot of critical data. Candidate will also be responsible for defining requirements for enhancements, new applications, and procedures as they relate to the corporate information technology environment. Candidate may also be responsible for the administration of Lucent/Avaya Definity PBX and CallXpress voicemail systems and Blackberry if applicable. This company is very process and procedure orientated.
Company offers 3 weeks vacation, matching 401(k), Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Supplemental Insurance, AD&D, vacation time starts accruing on your first day (15 days per year), Paid Holidays (11 days per year), Sick leave (6 days per year), Employee Referral Bonus Program and Paid parking.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST have 3-4+ years experience with Microsoft Windows Administration, with 1+ year in a Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 environment supporting 100+ users (This experience must be presented in your resume in detail.)
AND
MUST HAVE 2+ years experience as a Helpdesk and/or Desktop Support Analyst for 100+ Corporate users running Windows XP Pro, MS Office 2003 and Outlook 2003 (experience with remote users is preferred).
Must be strong with Active Directory (not just basic administration)
Requires excellent understanding of TCP/ IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP
Experience with Smantec/Veritas Backup Exec and HP Openview a big plus.
Experience with the following is a plus:
Asset Tracking, Auditing Systems and License Agreements
Designing and implementing Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies
BS and/or MS in CS, MCSE or related certification are a big plus.
Experience with RightFax servers and Blackberry Enterprise Manager
Experience with Ghost for imaging
SQL Server 2000/2005
Great Plains
Avaya PBX and Voicemail
Must have excellent communication skills
Company is only considering local candidates or candidates confirmed to be relocated to the Los Angeles area.
Company is unable to sponsor or perform corp to corp contracts for Visa holders.
With your resume submittal, please provide answers to the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card holder?
What is your current or last base salary?
What is your required salary range (please do not respond with “negotiable”)?
Why did you leave your last 3 positions?
When can you start your next position?
To be increase your chances for an interview for this position, you should detail your resume, for each employer/project on your resume, to include:
Detail your resume to include the number of Windows 2003 servers in total, number Active Directory Servers, number of Domains, number of Exchange servers administrating and the number of users supporting. If applicable, detail all/number of servers built, loaded, configured, tested, migrated and/or rolled-out.
ALL of your Active Directory responsibilities, no matter how trivial or basic. You should be detailed. The Director has passed on strong candidates that just simply list Active Directory. You should detail any/all of the following you have done with AD. (I.e. Multi-domain and multi-location architectures, AD schema and optimization, creating and managing OU architecture and group policies, set-up and design AD across multiple sites, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, AD Sites and Services, FTP, RRAS, NFS, CIFS, sub-netting, SMTP, IIS, Terminal Sever in Administration Mode, VNC and VPN, responsibilities managing users, including setting up roaming profiles, setting up group policies, creating logon/logoff scripts, and setting up roaming Outlook profiles, User and group account administration) .
Detail responsibilities with Exchange 2003. (I.e. any performance optimization tuning and capacity planning efforts for Exchange 2003 Infrastructure, including maintenance and management of Public Folders, Mailboxes, and Distribution Lists architectures, GAL clean up, directory synchronization, mailbox archiving, Exchange message routing and transports, Directory Services, Clustering, Outlook Client, OWA, Public Folders, Sharepoint Services, Certificate Services, Performance, Protocols, and related Security.
All documentation responsibilities
Back up and recovery policies, procedures and tools used for back-ups (i.e. Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas NetBackup, ArcServe). Develop, test and update Business Continuity plans. Any SAN/NAS/DAS experience.
Tools used to monitor and troubleshoot servers (Compaq Insight Manager, NetIQ, NetCool, SMS and/or HP Openview).
Detail ALL of your Helpdesk and/or Desktop support responsibilities and experience including the number of users supporting (local and # of remote offices/users) (desktops/laptops) , Windows versions supporting XP, Outlook 2003, MS Office 2000/2002/2003, hardware/software installation, configuration and troubleshooting, VPN/PCAnywhere or other remote/laptop support, Ghost for multicast and individual Hard Drive imaging, all anti virus/spam software supporting, network and connectivity issues, troubleshoot printer, monitors and peripherals issues, migration or rollout projects (i.e. Windows XP) and utilization of Helpdesk tracking packages (i.e. Magic or Remedy).
Any experience in the administration of PBX (i.e. Lucent/Avaya Definity) and voicemail systems (i.e. CallXpress)
Any experience with Blackberry servers and PDA’s
Network Engineer
Location: Santa Monica , CA
Rate: Open (DOE) 1099/Corp to corp
A very successful Internet company is looking for a Sr Network Engineer. The company has 300+ employees, has been in business for 40+ yrs, has successfully transitioned their business model to the Internet over the last 10 yrs and realized $98 million in revenue in 06.
Sr Network Engineer will assist the Network Team in maintaining 24x7x365 High Availability, high Internet traffic, and mission critical network. The Sr Network Engineer will be responsible for resolving daily network issues in response to NOC alerts and escalations. This may involve working with other Network Engineers, Unix/Linux Sys Administrators, Security Team, project managers and other staff in order to resolve a multitude of network performance and monitoring issues. The company has one local Data Center networked across the U.S. The company is currently utilizing heavy Cisco routers (65xx, 72xx, 75xx), 3500 Cisco Switches and Cisco Pix Firewalls. They are also using F5’s BigIP to load balance high volume Internet traffic. The company uses internally developed customized monitoring tools. The company is sustaining bandwidth of 75+ Mbps via OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 utilizing BGP, TCP/IP, OSPF, IPSEC and HSRP, SNMP, and PPTP protocols.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST HAVE experience in large scale, mission critical (i.e. Corporate/ISP/ Internet/ eCommerce/ ASP/Web hosting) networks.
3-5+ years of very large, Cisco based network (WAN/LAN) engineering experience is a MUST.
MUST have experience with BGP and/or OSPF
MUST have experience with one of the larger load balancing solutions, preferable F5’s BigIP (or Foundry’s BigIron or ServerIron Switches or Cisco Content Switches)
Experience in a high volume, at least 20+MB/sec sustained bandwidth, Internet environment.
Extensive hands-on design experience with Internet routing protocols in multi-homed, distributed environments required. Must be very hands-on with Cisco Routers and Switches configuration and have advanced knowledge of Internet Network topology, routing and switching. Including extensive experience installing, configuring and tuning for performance large Cisco routers/switches at the IOS level
MUST have developed and implemented Cisco Router and switch IOS software and system configurations
Previous experience in high-volume/ high Internet traffic environments
Extensive practical knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, IPX, IPSEC, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IGRP, HSRP, SNMP, SNA, TACACS+), devices, and commonly used tools
Pluses:
Ability to work with existing Perl scripts and/or develop new Perl Network monitoring and automation tools
Unix, C and/or Perl scripting
experience with load balancing with Cisco Series Content Services Switches (CSS)
Experience working with a Security Policies and Security Engineers
Experience with Cisco router-based VPN’s
Experience with GRE is a plus
Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, C CD A, C CD P, CCIE) a plus
B.S. and/or M.S. in CS or related field a plus
*Please note that this is purely a Network Engineer role and candidates that are primarily server administrators with some networking responsibilities as part of their responsibilities can not be considered.
With your resume submittal, please provide answers to the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card holder?
What is your current or last base salary?
What is your required salary range (please do not respond with “negotiable”)?
Why did you leave your last 3 positions?
When can you start your next position?
Solaris System Administrator
Location: Culver City , CA
Salary: (DOE)
A successful Digital Media Company is looking for a Solaris System Administrator. This Solaris System Administrator will be responsible for working with 2 other Linux/Solaris System administrators in supporting a mission critical, 24x7x365 High Availability Internet infrastructure consisting of 50+ Solaris v10 servers supporting Apache Web Servers, JBoss, Tomcat and WebSphere Application Servers and Oracle 10g databases. The ideal candidate will come from a strong Unix/Solaris/ Linux System Administration background and will have recently worked in a HA Solaris environment. The candidate may be responsible for implementing projects related to Solaris server capacity planning, new Solaris infrastructure design/build- out/deployments, improve Solaris server performance and availability, implement new server monitoring and tuning technologies and complex troubleshooting and problem resolution of major server issues and interfacing with Security, Network, Oracle Database and Development Managers. Furthermore, the Solaris S/A will be responsible for assisting in day to day System Administration duties on an as needed and on-call basis. The company is running a large, 24x7x365 High Availability Solaris on Sun hardware server infrastructure in an Internet environment. The System Administration team works closely with the Development/ Test departments, external clients and 3rd party vendors in supporting and maintaining company’s infrastructure. If the candidate’s experience permits, the Sr Administrator may also work on the company’s SUN SAN.
This position reports to the Director of Network Operations.
Company offers, matching 401(k), Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Supplemental Insurance, vacation time starts accruing on your first day (15 days per year), Paid Holidays (11 days per year), Sick leave (6 days per year), Employee Referral Bonus Program and Paid parking.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST HAVE 2-5+ years of recent Solaris System Administration experience in a HA Internet/Web based environment (experience in a high volume Linux environment will be considered)
Experience administering and building large High Availability Solaris servers from scratch
Experience deploying, monitoring and performance tuning Apace web servers running on Solaris (providing information based on logs and system behavior, configuring plug-ins and modules).
Experience implementing Solaris server based projects, such as server capacity planning, new Linux/Solaris infrastructure design/build- out/deployments, improve Linux/Solaris server performance and availability, implement new server monitoring and tuning technologies and complex troubleshooting and problem resolution of major server issues is a big plus. It is recommended to detail your experience leading these types of technical server projects in your resume.
Ability to debug Java systems on Jboss/Tomcat preferred
Experience deploying Solaris on Sun hardware
Experience writing Unix shell scripts
Experience writing Perl scripts is a plus
Experience writing admin tools using Java and/or JSP a plsu
Excellent communication skills
Plus:
Experience as a systems programmer
BS/MS in CS or related degree
Any Networking, Security and/or DBA experience is a plus.
To be considered for an interview, experience with the above requirements MUST BE detailed in the body of your resume.
*Company will not offer relocation assistance. *
*Company is unable to sponsor Visas or perform Corp-to-Corp contracts on H1 Visa holders *
With your resume submittal, please provide answers to the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card holder?
What is your current or last base salary?
What is your required salary range (please do not respond with “negotiable”)?
Why did you leave your last 3 positions?
When can you start your next position?
Lead and Sr Oracle Production DBA’s
Location: Los Angeles , CA
Salary/rate: Open (DOE) + 10% bonus + options
(Please note that contracts are only available to U.S. citizens and green card holders. Client will sponsor H1b Visas, however, candidate’s Visa must be able to be permanently transferred to my client for a full time/permanent position.)
A very successful Company is looking for a Lead and a Sr Production Oracle 10g DBA. The Oracle DBA will be part of a team of 10 Oracle DBA’s responsible for maintaining, supporting and troubleshooting 100+ Oracle 10g instances running on 64 bit RHAS v4.0 Linux (both local and global remote instances). Company has 120+ TB’s of data with single instances of 10+ TB’s and the OLTP databases are handling 5+ million hits per day. They are currently running up to 11 node RAC 10g Clusters on Linux in production. They are utilizing DataGuard and Data Streams in production. The company is in the process of releasing new products which will result in a 50-100% increase in volume and amount of data. The Oracle DBA will be responsible for the testing and moving into production of all 10g technologies and will be responsible for performance tuning, troubleshooting and issue resolution of a very large and complex 10g/Linux environment. The Oracle DBA will also be responsible for analyzing, solving and creating solutions for very complex performance tuning situations. The Oracle will also be responsible for all standard database administrative tasks, such as: proactive performance tuning and monitoring, trouble-shooting, back-up and recovery, partitioning, replication, installations and configurations on an as needed basis, apply patches and upgrades. The Production Oracle DBA will also be responsible for creating and modifying Unix and Perl scripts to automate DBA tasks.
Sr Oracle DBA will report to Lead Oracle DBA.
Lead Oracle DBA will be responsible for the hands-on leading of the team of 10 Oracle DBA’s. He/she will be responsible for solving more complex issues and implementing new technologies. Lead Oracle DBA will report to the Oracle DBA Manager.
Company consistently works with bleeding edge technology in order to maintain the highest performing database environment.
The company offers full benefits (PPO & HMO) including dental and vision, 401K, Stock Options and Purchase Plans, 2 weeks vacation, 8 paid sick days, Short and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, casual dress and flexible work hours that all begin with employment.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST have 5+ years of Oracle Production DBA experience, preferable with at least 1 year on Linux in a production environment
MUST have Oracle 10g RAC experience in production, preferably in a multi-node environment
Should have Oracle 10g experience including RAC (including Interconnects)
Experience with Grid technologies, DataGuard and Data Streams is highly preferred
MUST be very strong with SQL Tuning (especially within RAC), SQL traces, SQLLDR
RMAN for backup and recovery
OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) for monitoring and performance tuning
Candidate must be at the expert level in Performance Tuning and Monitoring
Must be able to write Unix shell scripts and experience writing/modifying Perl scripts is a plus.
Extensive SQL and PL/SQL experience required.
Experience with single database instances > 500 gig is a big plus
Experience in high volume transaction environments (1+ million updates or transactions/ day) is a big plus
Should have experience with NetApp NAS or other NAS/SAN solutions
Data warehousing experience
BS/MS in CS or related field is a plus.
In order for the hiring manager to consider your resume, you must send me an updated and customized resume that explains in great detail for each employer:
Detailed description of the technical environment at each employer including, the number and purpose (production, DW, Data Mart, ETL, OLTP, DSS, development, test) of Oracle 10g instances and size of Oracle databases and instances (multi TB), size and purpose of Oracle data warehouse/s, versions of Oracle running 9i and 10g in production and platforms running on (RH Linux or Solaris) and volume of transactions/ hits on databases
All experience with 10g Tools: RAC, Grid Technologies, DataGuard, Data Streams
Detail all of your Production DBA responsibilities, including a detail explanation Oracle RAC, Partitioning, Data warehouse, OEM and RMAN experience in high volume/high availability environments using either Quest Partition Magic or Oracle’s Partitioning tool, Performance Tuning and Monitoring responsibilities and achievements, list the DBA tools (OEM, STATSPAK, Toad, Perl/Shell Scripts, DB Artisan, Veritas Quick I/O, SQL*Loader) and software utilized at each employer.
Any experience with NetApp or other NAS/SAN technologies.
Please note that this is an Oracle Production DBA position and Oracle Application or ERP DBA’s and will not be considered.
*Company will offer relocation assistance. *
With your resume submittal, please answer the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card or H1 Visa holder?
If you are a H1 Visa holder, can your Visa be permanently transferred to my client for a full time/permanent position?
Do you prefer a permanent or contract position?
What is your current base salary?
What salary and/or contract rate range are you considering (please do not respond *negotiable* or similar).
Why did you leave your last 3 employers?
If you are not located in Southern California , when are you confirmed to be in Southern Ca?
OO Perl Developer
Location: anywhere in U.S. (100% telecommuting)
Rate: $40-50/hr (DOE) 1099 or Corp to Corp
A new start up is looking for an OO Perl contractor. The company is in the business of credit card transaction processing, is fully funded and has a development staff of 7-8. The architecture and data model designs are complete and the first iteration of the product is complete and released into production. The OO Perl developer will be responsible for the new development of new features and products of a high volume credit card processing system from the ground up expected to handle 10K transactions/ day. The OO Perl is currently developed and deployed on Debian Linux with MySQL (InnoDB mode) on the backend.
This position is almost 100% telecommuting as once every 3-4 months the company will pay all expenses for meetings in Las Vegas .
REQUIREMENTS
MUST have 2+ yrs of OO Perl development on Linux for high volume applications and/or systems
MUST have solid database skills (preferable MySQL) including the ability to design relational databases, interface OO Perl code with databases and SQL optimization of queries. Oracle is acceptable.
Since this is a 100% telecommuting position, good over the phone communication skills mandatory.
Plus:
MySQL InnoDB mode OR MySQL (any mode) AND either Oracle, Postgres, or Informix
Familiar with using ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
Experience using Subversion for Configuration Management
Experience with Rose-DB-Object
Any DBA skills is a plus but not necessary
Any Linux System Administration experience
OO Perl Developer Contract (VB/Access experience a big plus)
Location: anywhere in U.S. (100% telecommuting) or on site in Westlake Village , CA
Rate: $35-50/hr 1099 or Corp to Corp
Duration: 3+ months
A new start up is looking for a candidate to migrate an existing VB/Access financial application to LAMP using OO Perl, CGI and MySQL. The application tracks commissions, account information, amortizations, etc.
There will be an option to extend contract to maintain and enhance this application and work on other projects.
This position is either 100% telecommuting or on site in Westlake Village , CA .
REQUIREMENTS
MUST have 2+ yrs of OO Perl development on Linux for financial or transaction processing systems
MUST have experience with CGI and MySQL
Since this is a 100% telecommuting position, good over the phone communication skills
Plus:
Subversion
Database skills (preferable MySQL) including the ability to design relational databases, interface SQL optimization of queries to MySQL or Oracle
MySQL InnoDB mode OR MySQL (any mode) AND either Oracle, Postgres, or Informix
Familiar with using ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
Experience with Rose-DB-Object
Any DBA skills is a plus but not necessary
OO Perl Developer/Perl QA Engineer Contract
Location: anywhere in U.S. (100% telecommuting)
Rate: $45-55/hr 1099 or Corp to Corp
A new start up is looking for a candidate to perform 50% OO Perl Development and 50% Quality Assurance. The company is in the business of credit card transaction processing and is fully funded.
50% OO Perl Development
The OO Perl developer will be responsible for the new development of a high volume credit card processing system from the ground up expected to handle 10K transactions/ day within the first few months of production. The OO Perl is currently developed and deployed on Debian Linux with MySQL on the backend.
50% Quality Assurance
The candidate will need to have interest in writing automated testing tools and scripts in Perl to test the above systems. The candidate will also be responsible for:
Utilizing SQL to test MySQL Database
Perform code reviews of other developers’ OO Perl code
Utilize Subversion for Source Control
This position is almost 100% telecommuting as once every 3-4 months the company will pay all expenses for meetings in Las Vegas .
REQUIREMENTS
MUST have 2+ yrs of OO Perl development on Linux for high volume applications and/or systems
MUST have experience creating testing tools and/or scripts in Perl (test::harness, test::more, test::simple)
MUST have experience utilizing SQL to perform data verification to MySQL
Since this is a 100% telecommuting position, good over the phone communication skills
Plus:
Subversion
Database skills (preferable MySQL) including the ability to design relational databases, interface SQL optimization of queries to MySQL or Oracle
MySQL InnoDB mode OR MySQL (any mode) AND either Oracle, Postgres, or Informix
Familiar with using ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
Experience with Rose-DB-Object
Any DBA skills is a plus but not necessary
Please note this is not a position that utilizes standard testing software packages (i.e. Mercury, Segue, Rational, etc.) and those resumes can not be considered.
Open Source Quality Assurance Lead and Engineers (PHP, Perl or C a must have)
Location: Sunnyvale or Glendale or Los Angeles , CA
Salary: Completely Open (Depends on experience) + bonus + options
A very successful company is looking for a Lead QA and Sr QA Engineers. The QA Engineers will be responsible for designing and building a QA infrastructure from the ground up based on open source tools (PHP or Perl or C). The QA Engineers will be responsible for creating complex workflows, developing and creating Testing Tools from scratch using PHP, Perl and/or C, to perform functional black box testing.
Please note this is not a position that utilizes standard testing software packages (i.e. Mercury, Segue, Rational, etc.) and those resumes can not be considered.
The QA Engineers will be testing 25+ systems that monitor, analyze, manage, operate, install, build and report on several very large data center global operations and very high volume mission critical distributed applications. These systems will interface and gather large amounts of data in various formats (primarily traffic flow and performance) , from 2+k servers/networking devices and several large mission critical distributed applications, cleanse, convert, verify, manipulate, cleanse data, load large volumes (100-200 million rows) of data into MySQL databases and export data in various formats to several different locations. These systems are primarily developed in OO PHP and OO Perl on Linux using a WebServices SOA with MySQL on the backend.
Open source QA engineers will be responsible for interfacing with OO PHP/Perl developers and managers to analyze and report test results. The Q/A Engineer will be responsible for creating test plans and test cases, executing test scripts (manual and automated) and attending Application Design, Development and testing meetings. Candidate will be responsible for defining, creating, executing and documenting performance test plans. Candidate will also be responsible for analyzing and reporting testing results. Candidate will write and execute manual and automated functional and performance test scripts, using PHP or Perl, of proprietary applications, maintain automated and manual regression test scripts of both front and back-end functionality, utilize SQL to populate test data and confirm results, develop, maintain and execute stress/load scripts and scenarios, create test harnesses in PHP or Perl, bash and SQL, provide product support - verify, escalate, track and resolve user-reported issues and report, confirm and close defects.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST HAVE experience creating functional black box testing tools in PHP or Perl or C
MUST have experience creating, running and reporting tests in an open source environment
BS and/or MS in CS or related field a plus
Experience testing the following is a plus:
High volume data processing systems
Database structures (preferably MySQL or Postgres)
Systems that interface with networking/load balancers/server/ applications and pull traffic flow and performance data
WebServices using SOAP and/or REST is a plus.
Web 2.0
Please note this is not a position that utilizes standard testing software packages (i.e. Mercury, Segue, Rational, etc.) and those resumes can not be considered.
With your resume submittal, please answer the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card or H1 Visa holder?
If you are a Visa holder, can your Visa be permanently transferred?
Do you prefer a permanent or contract position?
What is your current base salary or contract rate (W-2 or 1099)?
What salary range are you considering (please do not respond *negotiable* or similar).
Why did you leave your last 3 employers?
If you do not live in northern CA, are you able to relocate for a permanent position?
Lead and Sr OO PHP/Perl/C Engineers
Location: Sunnyvale or Glendale or Los Angeles , CA
Salary: Completely Open (Depends on experience) + bonus + options
A very successful company is looking for a solid OO PHP/Perl/C/C+ + Engineer. The are both Lead and Sr positions available. This company is in the early stages of designing, building out, enhancing and testing 25+ systems that monitor, analyze, manage, operate, install, build and report on several very large data center global operations and very high volume mission critical distributed applications. These systems will interface and gather large amounts of data in various formats (primarily traffic flow and performance) , from 2+k servers/networking devices and several large mission critical distributed applications, cleanse, convert, verify, manipulate, cleanse data, load large volumes (100-200 million rows) of data into MySQL databases and export data in various formats to several different locations. Furthermore, the company is building systems that handle change management, server and application installs, hardware/software/ inventory change requests and portals. All of these 25+ systems are being built within a WebServices SOA using SOAP and REST. The Engineer will be responsible for the full SDLC of these systems including design of complex workflows, build out of processes, development and testing of systems. These systems are primarily built using OO PHP and OO Perl on Linux with MySQL on the backend.
The company offers full benefits (PPO & HMO) including dental and vision, 401K, Stock Options and Purchase Plans, 2 weeks vacation, 8 paid sick days, Short and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, casual dress and flexible work hours that all start upon employment.
Requirements:
Candidate MUST be at the expert level with OO PHP or OO Perl. Company will accept expert C/C++ developers that have proven experience developing operations monitoring systems as described above.
Experience developing system operations applications is a big plus.
BS and/or MS in CS, Engineering, Math, Physics or equivalent
Must have experience with operating systems (preferably Linux)
Experience developing high volume data processing systems is a plus
Should have experience with database theory and structures (preferably MySQL or Postgres)
Ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks, tune and optimize MySQL databases is a big plus.
Any networking experience is a plus. Ability to write systems that interface with networking/load balancers/server/ applications and pull traffic flow and performance data is a big plus.
Any experience building WebServices using SOAP and/or REST is a plus.
Should have experience writing Unix shell scripts
Experience with Web 2.0 is a plus
With your resume submittal, please answer the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card or H1 Visa holder?
If you are a Visa holder, can your Visa be permanently transferred?
Do you prefer a permanent or contract position?
What is your current base salary or contract rate (W-2 or 1099)?
What salary range are you considering (please do not respond *negotiable* or similar).
Why did you leave your last 3 employers?
If you do not live in northern CA, are you able to relocate for a permanent position?
LAMP (PHP or Perl) Developer
Location: West Los Angeles , CA
Salary: $70-100K (DOE) + Bonus + Options
A very small but profitable Internet startup company is looking for 4 LAMP Developers. Company has only been in business for less than one year, is profitable and has millions of hits/day. The company is looking for strong OO PHP or Perl Developers that have experience working in an open source RH Linux environment with Apache on the front end and MySQL on the backend. Candidate should be comfortable and serious about working for a small aggressive startup. Sr Level candidate should have experience with design patterns, object oriented design architectures, object oriented development, establishing, implementing and/or working with formal SDLC methodologies, standards and processes and high volume performance web sites. Candidates should have experience with HMTL or Javascript and writing SQL to MySQL.
Any experience with the following is a plus:
Ajax
Configuration Management/Release Engineering experience (preferably Subversion)
Linux Administration
MySQL DBA
Any lead or management experience
Search technologies
Content management systems
BS/MS in CS or related degree
Only local candidates can be considered.
No telecommuting and/or contracting available for this position.
Company is unable to sponsor or perform corp to corp contracts for Visa holders.
With your resume submittal, please answer the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card or H1 Visa holder?
Do you prefer a permanent or contract position?
What is your current base salary or contract rate (W-2 or 1099)?
What salary range are you considering (please do not respond *negotiable* or similar).
Why did you leave your last 3 employers?
Mid/Sr Linux System Administrator
Location: West Los Angeles , CA
Salary: $80-100K (DOE) + OT + bonus
A leading Global ASP, Application Service Provider, is looking for a Linux System Administrator. This private company has been in business for 10+ years, has 200+ employees and has 100+ large Fortune 100 and 500 customers located across the globe.
This Linux System Administrator will be responsible for working with 2 other Linux/Solaris System administrators in supporting a mission critical, 24x7x365 High Availability ASP/Internet infrastructure consisting of 150+ RedHat Linux 9.x servers and 15 Solaris 9.x servers. The ideal candidate will come from a strong Unix/Solaris System Administration background and will have recently worked in a HA Linux environment. The candidate may be responsible for implementing projects related to Linux server capacity planning, new Linux infrastructure design/build- out/deployments, improve Linux server performance and availability, implement new server monitoring and tuning technologies and complex troubleshooting and problem resolution of major server issues and interfacing with Security, Network, Oracle Database and Development Managers. Furthermore, the Linux S/A will be responsible for assisting in day to day System Administration duties on an as needed and on-call basis. The company is running a large, 24x7x365 High Availability Linux/Compaq and Solaris/Sun server infrastructure in an Internet environment. The System Administration team works closely with the Development/ Test departments, external clients and 3rd party vendors in supporting and maintaining company’s ASP environment. The company is running Apache web servers, Tomcat and Resin Application Servers, Oracle and SQL Server databases, web applications are developed in Perl and Perforce for versioning control. The Sr Administrator may also be required to work on the company’s EMC SAN if their skill set allows.
This position reports to the Director of Network Operations.
Company offers, matching 401(k), Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Supplemental Insurance, vacation time starts accruing on your first day (15 days per year), Paid Holidays (11 days per year), Sick leave (6 days per year), Employee Referral Bonus Program and Paid parking.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST HAVE 2+ years of recent Linux System Administration experience in a HA Internet/Web based environment
Experience administering and building large High Availability Linux servers from scratch
Experience deploying, monitoring and performance tuning Apace web servers running on Linux (providing information based on logs and system behavior, configuring plug-ins and modules).
Experience implementing Linux server based projects, such as server capacity planning, new Linux/Solaris infrastructure design/build- out/deployments, improve Linux/Solaris server performance and availability, implement new server monitoring and tuning technologies and complex troubleshooting and problem resolution of major server issues is a big plus. It is recommended to detail your experience leading these types of technical server projects in your resume.
Experience deploying RedHat Linux on Compaq hardware
Experience writing Unix shell scripts
Experience writing Perl scripts is a plus
Experience with Versioning Control Systems (such as Perforce, CVS) is a plus
Excellent communication skills
Plus:
Experience as a systems programmer
BS/MS in CS or related degree
Any Networking, Security and/or DBA experience is a plus.
To be considered for an interview, experience with the above requirements MUST BE detailed in the body of your resume.
*Company will not offer relocation assistance. *
*Company is unable to sponsor Visas or perform Corp-to-Corp contracts on H1 Visa holders *
With your resume submittal, please provide answers to the following questions:
Are you a U.S. citizen or green card holder?
What is your current or last base salary?
What is your required salary range (please do not respond with “negotiable”)?
Why did you leave your last 3 positions?
When can you start your next position?
Thank You,
Al Karaptian
eQuest Solutions
310.937.3388
al@eQuestSolutions. com
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