system admin techniques implemented at slideshare.com

Do you speak native Linux and have operations experience with a large server cluster?
Are you enthusiastic about systems automation (we love Puppet, Chef or CFEngine experience will also give you the right philosophical background)?
 SlideShare is looking for dev-ops engineers who will be responsible for scaling SlideShare to hundreds of servers, using automation, virtualization, and cloud computing technologies like Amazon EC2, SQS, S3 (which we use extensively).
 We don't believe ops should spend all day firefighting and doing chores to keep the system healthy.
 We believe ops should create valuable intellectual property the way software engineers do, using tools like Puppet, MemCached, Varnish, TokyoCabinet, HAProxy, Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, and MySQL

A Note On Practice And Persistence - Python developer

While you are studying programming, I'm studying how to play guitar. I practice it every day for at least 2 hours a day. I play scales, chords, and arpeggios for an hour at least and then learn music theory, ear training, songs and anything else I can. Some days I study guitar and music for 8 hours because I feel like it and it's fun. To me repetitive practice is natural and just how to learn something. I know that to get good at anything you have to practice every day, even if I suck that day (which is often) or it's difficult. Keep trying and eventually it'll be easier and fun.

As you study this book, and continue with programming, remember that anything worth doing is difficult at first. Maybe you are the kind of person who is afraid of failure so you give up at the first sign of difficulty. Maybe you never learned self-discipline so you can't do anything that's "boring". Maybe you were told that you are "gifted" so you never attempt anything that might make you seem stupid or not a prodigy. Maybe you are competitive and unfairly compare yourself to someone like me who's been programming for 20+ years.

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit, keep at it. Force yourself. If you run into an Extra Credit you can't do, or a lesson you just do not understand, then skip it and come back to it later. Just keep going because with programming there's this very odd thing that happens.

At first, you will not understand anything. It'll be weird, just like with learning any human language. You will struggle with words, and not know what symbols are what, and it'll all be very confusing. Then one day BANG your brain will snap and you will suddenly "get it". If you keep doing the exercises and keep trying to understand them, you will get it. You might not be a master coder, but you will at least understand how programming works.

If you give up, you won't ever reach this point. You will hit the first confusing thing (which is everything at first) and then stop. If you keep trying, keep typing it in, trying to understand it and reading about it, you will eventually get it.

But, if you go through this whole book, and you still do not understand how to code, at least you gave it a shot. You can say you tried your best and a little more and it didn't work out, but at least you tried. You can be proud of that.

career skill set for linux

Systems Software Development Engineer,

* Strong C and Kernel programming, multithreading and synchronization
* Deep understanding of the Linux kernel, driver development and troubleshooting
* Deep understanding of OS concepts, multiprocessing, File Systems, Virtual Memory
* Deep understanding of processor architecture, SMP systems, memory hierarchy
* Knowledge of Storage system concepts will be added advantage
* Good communication skills - technical documentation, code review, reporting results
* Ability to work with co-located as well as distributed teams

Additional:
* Knowledge of IO Buses: PCI-Express, Hypertransport
* Experience working with GNU toolchains, source control (CVS/Subversion)
* Knowledge of BSD Unix will be added advantage


diwali 2011




Diwali 2011








linux systems engineer ideal job description

Linux System Administrator, System Engineer, LAMP, SAN, Perl Linux System Administrator, System Engineer, LAMP, SAN, Perl, Systems Admin, Load balancing, Nagios - Skills Required - Linux, LAMP, Perl, Shell, scripting, SAN, Nagios, Apache, MySQL, Load Balancing, DRBD, Apache HA, TCP/IP, DNS, IP tables, Firewalls, Web application firewalls, High availability, clusters, enterprise, database driven, Web environments, System Engineer, Systems Administrator , Linux System Administrator, Linux Admin, Linux Administrator, LAMP Admin, Windows Admin

Linux System Administrator, System Engineer, Systems Administrator, LAMP, MySQL, Apache HA, High Availability, SAN, DRBD, Load balancing, TCP/IP, database driven environment, Linux Administrator

If you are a Linux System Administrator with High Availability experience, please read on!

Applicants must have 3 years of Linux experience designing, installing and managing high availability database driven environments.

Skills required for this position:

- Apache, Apache HA, MySQL
- Scripting (Perl and Shell)
- SAN
- Load balancing, DRBD
- TCP/IP, Firewalls, IP Tables and Web application firewalls

What you'll be doing:

- Maintain Linux OS and SAN storage backup and other data center tasks
- Maintain high availability of services
- Database administration
- Provision, monitor and maintain core business servers

career for systems engineer

Technical Architect for VMWare/Solaris/Linux
- VMWare ESX / vSphere
- RedHat Cluster
- Sun Cluster
- EMC and Hitachi SAN storage and zoning
- Solaris and Linux server design
- Fault Tolerant networking, High Availability


VMWare Engineer

- Clustering, High Availablity, Dynamic Resource Scheduling
- Storage distribution
- vSwitches, physical networking
- VMWare Certified Professional


Unix Administrator for Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux

- Technical Architect
- Team Leader of 6
- O/S patching strategies
- Systems maintainance and hardware upgrades
- Network/Server monitoring and alerting
- Networking and Network security
- Cisco networking products
- RedHat cluster
- FibreChannel storage



Specialties



VMWare ESX / vSphere, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, Cisco routers, Firewalls, Loadbalancers, Packet Filtering, IPFilter, Security, Penetration testing, Break/Fix, Clustering/Server farming/Load balancing, High Availability, Bulletproof archetecture, Infrastructure archetecture, Server/Service monitoring and Alerting, SMS messaging, Market Data/RMDS, SAN Storage, SAN switching and zoning, Redhat, Redhat clustering




skills required - career

install, tune, troubleshoot, apply patches and support Web servers and integrate third party applications
Responsible for uptime of the Web severs and improving performance
Must have extensive knowledge in conducting VAPT and providing solutions
Apache HTTPD. – Installation and Configuration of Web Servers
·          Competent in performance analysis.
·          Have basic knowledge of java and oops.
·          Competent at Shell scripting. – Should have experience in developing shell scripts.
·          One of the scripting languages – Ruby, Perl.
 SVN. – This refers to person having knowledge of source control management.
 Hands on one of the following Continuous Integration Tools – Cruise Control, Hudson or Teamcity.
Knowledge in ethical hacking and information security management systems
Strong knowledge in website development technologies
Strong knowledge in any RDBMS database preferably Oracle, MS SQL 2005/2008
implementation and maintenance of web analytics
Strong experience in CMS administration preferably Drupal
experience in Apache, Tomcat and IIS web servers administration

    * Perl, Bourne, Bash, Posix, advanced shell scripting
    * nmap, snmpwalk, nessus, dnswalk, libwhisker, strace
    * HP Openview, Nagios, ZenOSS
    * Automated Web Application Stress Testing
    * Tomcat, and Bea Weblogic java application servers
    * openldap, slurpd to syncrepl migration, ldapsearch

Mastering Packet Analysis

    * Advanced usage of sniffers for network troubleshooting and optimization
    * tcpdump, ethereal, and ngrep all covered indepth


Network, Client, Server, and Software Technologies:

    * Linux and Unix proactive system hardening
    * tcpdump, ntop, ethereal / wireshark
    * Apache Web Server, Bind DNS,
    * mysql, Oracle Enterprise Manager Console
    * ISO 17799 Information Security Compliance


    * Vulnerability scanning and network penetration testing of customer facing applications
    * Customized and branded Perl open source web metrics reporting software for intranet usage statistics
    * Moved internet facing IIS servers internally and fronted them with the more secure Apache using mod_proxy

     
    * NetApp Filer Storage and NAS administration. NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance
    * Perl archive encryption script supporting key rotation and key retrieval from Ingrian Datasecure
    * Initial setup of OpenLDAP to centralize network device authentication. Also looked into RSA products
    * RPM package creation for Ticketmaster proprietary software. Redhat Package Manager spec file creation
    * Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older linux distributions to CentOS/RHEL5



    * Re-implemented the global dns/ldap setup for higher availability. Used keepalived for auto-failover
    * High performance computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning. Constant review of upstream kernel activity
    * Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading
    * Authored many internal tools and django web dashboards. Used a mix of python, perl, and jQuery / Javascript
    * Rolled out a completely new monitoring system based on ZenOSS. Lots of custom integration using xmlrpc and python


    * Setup web-based open source software such as Piwik, CiviCRM, and Drupal
    * Learned and managed systems with the puppet configuration management system
    * Volunteered to run the gnome booth at the Southern California Linux Expo 6x, 7x, and 8x
    * Actively developed and enhanced the django application snowy for the Tomboy Online project
    * Setup a mock chroot rpm build environment. Backported rpm packages from Fedora to RHEL5

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