Senior Consultant/ Unix Systems Administrator

A client that I have been consulting with is looking for a Unix
Administrator to deliver on-site support to a critical client in the
Boston area.

This is the job description as posted:

As a Senior Consultant, you work side-by-side with the customer to
maintain and expand their computing and network infrastructure. You
should have experience and/or familiarity with a fast pace environment
with proven results. Experience and/or desire to work in a research and
development organization is imperative. You must be team oriented, have
strong communication skills, and must be able to work independently and
further the goals of the organization without immediate direction. It
is also important to be comfortable dealing with fairly technical
end-users.

Responsibilities include:
=B7	Installation, configuration, and maintenance of infrastructure
servers
=B7	Evaluation of High-Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clustering
technologies and products, which may include Sun Grid Engine and Condor
=B7	Linux cluster performance tuning, maintenance, and monitoring (Big
Brother, Nagios, Ganglia)
=B7	Cluster file service performance tuning, which may include IBRIX
Fusion, HP Scalable File Share (HP SFS), NFS, and Samba
=B7	Implementation of automated installation methods for clustered
systems (Kickstart, NPACI ROCKS)
=B7	Network and data storage management and planning
=B7	General-purpose systems administration including shell scripting,
software installation (packages and building from source), backup and
recovery, documentation, etc.
=B7	Management of directory services and source code repositories (CVS,
Subversion)
=B7	Installation and configuration of workstations including dual-boot
systems

Experience with most of the following technologies:
=B7	5+ years in a sysadmin role, supporting multiple operating systems
and hardware platforms
=B7	Expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
=B7	Sun Solaris
=B7	Familiarity with Open Source tools, both using common software and
building from source
=B7	NFS and Samba file services
=B7	Directory administration (NIS and BIND)
=B7	CVS and Subversion
=B7	Apache HTTP Server
=B7	Hardware and software RAID, LVM
=B7	Printing services using CUPS

Experience with the following technologies would be a plus:
=B7	Network Appliance Filers
=B7	Mac OS X desktop and server
=B7	Linux clustering
=B7	Active Directory authentication
=B7	Other Linux distributions (SUSE, Debian)

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