Hi Folks, I hope you will excuse the commercial nature of this post; I figured that this is the best place to find what we are looking for.
Backcountry.com is seeking an OpenBSD and Linux systems administrator to join its Systems and Networks Engineering team. Qualified applicants will have solid experience configuring and maintaining OpenBSD- and Linux-based servers in a production environment. We're a close-knit group, so a positive, cooperative attitude and the ability to function as part of a team are extremely important. Requirements: * Configuring and maintaining OpenBSD and Linux in a 24/7/365 production environment * Solid UNIX systems and network security fundamentals * Excellent understanding of the OSI seven layer model and TCP/IP networking * Experience working with hardware and software RAID devices * Stateful packet filtering with pf and iptables * Configuration and tuning of Apache and PostgreSQL * Datacenter operations (cabling, racking, organizing) Additional Preferred Skills: * CARP, pfsync, VLANs, and trunking * Configuration of layer 3 managed switches, eg. Foundry FastIron * Configuration of layer 4-7 application switches, eg. Foundry ServerIron * Asterisk PBX; * GFS or other distributed file system technologies; Considerations: This position is based in Park City, Utah and is full-time and benefits eligible. Benefits include paid time off, paid holidays, floating holidays, subsidized medical insurance, voluntary coverage (dental, short-term disability, supplemental accident), 401K, annual profit sharing, employee gear discount, employee referral program, flexible hours, casual dress, discounted season passes, and transferable day ski passes. To Apply: Send resume, salary history, and answers to the following screening questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "Systems Administrator" in the subject line. Screening Questions: 1. Based on the following statements (props to Lewis Carroll), answer the following questions: a. What can you logically conclude from these statements? b. Explain how you came to this conclusion (bonus points for using symbolic logic). The statements: * No birds, except ostriches, are 9 feet high. * There are no birds in this aviary that belong to anyone but me. * No ostrich lives on mince pies. * I have no birds less than 9 feet high. 2. Describe some differences between OpenBSD's and Linux's init(8). 3. Design a scalable e-mail architecture to support 1,000 users and 2MM+ incoming and 200,000 outgoing e-mails/day. You may be as brief or as verbose as you like. Architectural drawings, server, network, and software specs are encouraged but not required. 4. Your home network has a single pf-based firewall machine between your internal LAN and the general internet. The firewall machine has two network interfaces: external (sk0) and internal (sk1). This firewall takes a default-deny stance to *ALL* network traffic. You have a machine on your internal LAN, "puffy", that wants to talk to www.backcountry.com on TCP ports 80 and 443. Given the following pf macros, write the appropriate rule(s) that will allow puffy to surf www.backcountry.com: external_if="sk0" internal_if="sk1" puffy_ip="10.0.0.67" backcountry_ip="166.70.146.69" 5. What are your top three innate strengths that you don't even have to try at? 6. What is a genuine weakness that you strive to improve upon? (don't twist a positive into a negative) 7. What is your desired salary range? 8. Why do you want to work at Backcountry.com? We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
