My Company is Hiring

Rym

So, I'm sure you're all are aware that I am very happy with my current job. There's a chance I could make one of you as happy as I am. We're actually hiring for the same position I currently hold.

If you think that you have what it takes to do the job I currently do, whisper to me and we can talk. Please bear in mind that this is a high-powered, difficult, IT Operations/Engineering position which will require a high degree of skill, expertise, and experience. You would need to be able to commute daily to Manhattan.

Very briefly, you would need, at bare minimum, solid credentials in the following areas:

1. Linux system administration
2. Windows server system administration
3. Python, Perl, or advanced BASH scripting
4. A working knowledge of SNMP
5. A deep understanding of basic network infrastructure (NTP, DNS, circuits, routers/switches, TCP/IP, etc...)
6. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
7. A Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Computer Science, or the equivalent.

Of course, that just scratches the surface.

Cremlian

Oh oh I have Excellent Problem-solving and communication skills........................................... And none of the other skills :-p

Like someone is going to say "I can't solve problems or talk to people"

Apreche

Rym just wants to find someone because that means he will get a free vacation to the Caribbean.

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/me utterly fails at scratching the surface, even with a pick axe.

Cremlian

Hey if anyone has a background in Biology (or a related field) my company is always hiring, no experience required.

(I get 500 dollars for recommending someone)

George Patches

So, I'm sure you're all are aware that I am very happy with my current job. There's a chance I could make one of you as happy as I am. We're actually hiring for the same position I currently hold.

If you think that you have what it takes to do the job I currently do, whisper to me and we can talk. Please bear in mind that this is a high-powered, difficult, IT Operations/Engineering position which will require a high degree of skill, expertise, and experience. You would need to be able to commute daily to Manhattan.

Very briefly, you would need, at bare minimum, solid credentials in the following areas:

1. Linux system administration
2. Windows server system administration
3. Python, Perl, or advanced BASH scripting
4. A working knowledge of SNMP
5. A deep understanding of basic network infrastructure (NTP, DNS, circuits, routers/switches, TCP/IP, etc...)
6. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Of course, that just scratches the surface.

I'll have an IS degree soon, but I lack the experience in the above systems. Don't suppose your company is looking for any SAP people, I'm good with ABAP.

GreatTeacherMacRoss

1. Linux system administration
2. Windows server system administration
3. Python, Perl, or advanced BASH scripting
4. A working knowledge of SNMP
5. A deep understanding of basic network infrastructure (NTP, DNS, circuits, routers/switches, TCP/IP, etc...)
6. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Of course, that just scratches the surface.

Umm.....I can draw. That any good?

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Hey if anyone has a background in Biology [...], no experience required.

Define "background in Biology", does high school Biology followed all the way and finished successfully to being able to get accepted at a university under the study Biology/Medicine/other hard science Biology requiring studies, count? J/k.

HMTKSteve

Rym just wants to find someone because that means he will get a free vacation to the Caribbean.

I thought he just wanted someone to blame when he breaks something

Victor Frost

I have all of the above except the programming/scripting and the SNMP. I'm pretty handy with Dos Batch scripts though.

Ahh, who am I kidding, The position must require a degree of some sort.

Rym

Ahh, who am I kidding, The position must require a degree of some sort.

Edited it. ^_~

SNMP is extremely important for any IT person to understand, as it is the basis of all real network and system monitoring.

As for network infrastructure and the like, unless you can tell me what a PTR record is without looking it up, and as well explain to me how CIDR works at the drop of a hat, and maybe go through the functional differences between UDP and TCP, including the TCP handshake, it wouldn't really cut it.

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[T]he functional differences between UDP and TCP, including the TCP handshake

How correct is this knowledge/analogy Rym, UDP is like throwing a message in a bottle in the sea, and TCP being almost like going there in person, giving the information, explaining it and making sure the other understands it, and perhaps explain it again if needed.

George Patches

[T]he functional differences between UDP and TCP, including the TCP handshake

How correct is this knowledge/analogy Rym, UDP is like throwing a message in a bottle in the sea, and TCP being almost like going there in person, giving the information, explaining it and making sure the other understands it, and perhaps explain it again if needed.

Hahaha, that was the only one I knew too. My degree is higher level system designs, not the nitty gritty of how all the protocals work. And I do a lot more with databases and information, hence being Information Sciences and Technology (Information Engineering as my professor says) rather than straight Information Technology.

Rym

My degree is higher level system designs, not the nitty gritty of how all the protocals work. And I do a lot more with databases and information, hence being Information Sciences and Technology (Information Engineering as my professor says) rather than straight Information Technology.

Could you construct an SQL query to update a set of records in a postgres database? Dump a mysql database to disk for a live backup? Install and configure something like MRTG or TWiki? ^_~

HMTKSteve

My degree is higher level system designs, not the nitty gritty of how all the protocals work. And I do a lot more with databases and information, hence being Information Sciences and Technology (Information Engineering as my professor says) rather than straight Information Technology.

Could you construct an SQL query to update a set of records in a postgres database? Dump a mysql database to disk for a live backup? Install and configure something like MRTG or TWiki? ^_~

Except for the last two, yes. I don't know what MRTG and TWiki are.

What sort of salary does this job offer? From the way you have talked about work in the past it sounds like there is a certain level of stress involved and one has to wonder if the pay is worth the stress. No, I'm not interested in applying for the job. I am interested in knowing what the going rate is for such jobs.

CHOIS CHOIS CHOIS

Do they hire 17 year old punk kids to be interns?

George Patches

My degree is higher level system designs, not the nitty gritty of how all the protocals work. And I do a lot more with databases and information, hence being Information Sciences and Technology (Information Engineering as my professor says) rather than straight Information Technology.

Could you construct an SQL query to update a set of records in a postgres database? Dump a mysql database to disk for a live backup? Install and configure something like MRTG or TWiki? ^_~

Yes, Yes, What?

EDIT
After visiting Wikipedia, I could probably install MRTG or TWiki given I had access to the manual.

Also I have to admit I don't know postgre or mysql right now, I'm only famaliar with SQL Server and SAP's Open SQL. Given the similarities between SQl Server and Open SQL, I'm sure I could pickup postgre or mysql in no time at all.

EDITEDIT
I'll just throw in as well, all I've done for my last month at my internship is write and optimize SELECT statements.

Victor Frost

Ahh, who am I kidding, The position must require a degree of some sort.

Edited it. ^_~

SNMP is extremely important for any IT person to understand, as it is the basis of all real network and system monitoring.

As for network infrastructure and the like, unless you can tell me what a PTR record is without looking it up, and as well explain to me how CIDR works at the drop of a hat, and maybe go through the functional differences between UDP and TCP, including the TCP handshake, it wouldn't really cut it.

You know what, I know what those are, but fuck it. I decided a couple weeks ago that I don't want my job to be dealing with that shit. There's a reason I'm switching my major to communications and broadcasting.

TheWhaleShark

You guys need any help starting up a microbiology division?

Nuri

Alas, my bf who needs a job doesn't live in NY, and didn't finish college because Microsoft offered him lots of money instead.