... that description is full of shit. I'll have to talk to my manager about that.
Basically, we need three things from a sysadmin candidate:
We're a Debian/Ubuntu shop, with huge deployments of MySQL. Some of the job is day-to-day management of servers. You should know how to manage databases and handle replication.
We also require solid networking knowledge. You should know about the difference between TCP and UDP, and be able to explain Spanning Tree or ARP. (It actually shocks me how many sysadmins don't have this knowledge.)
The third part is programming ability. Most of what ops does is in Perl, but we also have to interact with other systems, so any knowledge of Python, PHP, etc. will enhance your appeal.
We're doing pretty awesome things, and only getting bigger and better. Come work with me! :-)
(E-Mail to treed@imvu.com if you have any questions or whatever.)
We are pretty thoroughly MySQL. You'd have to be very convincing, although one of the four of us on ops already has expressed a preference for Postgres.
... that description is full of shit. I'll have to talk to my manager about that.
Basically, we need three things from a sysadmin candidate:
We're a Debian/Ubuntu shop, with huge deployments of MySQL. Some of the job is day-to-day management of servers. You should know how to manage databases and handle replication.
We also require solid networking knowledge. You should know about the difference between TCP and UDP, and be able to explain Spanning Tree or ARP. (It actually shocks me how many sysadmins don't have this knowledge.)
The third part is programming ability. Most of what ops does is in Perl, but we also have to interact with other systems, so any knowledge of Python, PHP, etc. will enhance your appeal.
We're doing pretty awesome things, and only getting bigger and better. Come work with me! :-)
(E-Mail to treed@imvu.com if you have any questions or whatever.)
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