Hi all,<br /><br /> The company I have worked for for the past eight years is hiring a new 2nd level systems engineer.<br /><br />Kadme is a small and friendly company producing custom software for the oil and gas industry. We are situated in Stavanger, in the south-west corner of Norway, between the fjords (to the north) and the idyllic south coast. The town itself has a population of about 100 000, a pleasant, old town centre with a deep water harbour coming right into the centre and the main industry is oil and gas services. Despite its size there's quite a lot going on here (for example: we just biult a double, state of the art concert hall seating 2600 and providing purpose built venues for both acoustic and amplified music). Stavanger is easily reachable fro the UK with cheap direct flights to London and Manchester as well as connections to Aberdeen and Newcastle. there is also talk of re-instating a car-ferry link to Newcastle.<br /><br />KADME (together with CGG) was recently awarded the software and services contract for the Norwegian national oil data repository for the next seven years. Breaking a decades-long Schlumberger/Halliburton monopoly.<br /><br />Here is the link to the company website, and here is the linkedin job ad.<br /><br />The text of the original advertisement is also pasted below and anyone who is interested is welcome to contact either me or the company directly if they have any questions.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />Marius<br /><br /><br />Job ad text follows:<br /><br />. ...We are changing the way the oil and gas industry uses and interact with their data, and we are looking for great people to join us. We offer excellent career opportunities in a growing international work environment, and a competitive compensation package.<br />We are looking for a full-time System Engineer to further strengthen our Technical Team.<br />Primary Responsibilities:<br />• Provides installation, maintenance, upgrades and trouble-shooting of software applications for KADME and for KADME’s customers.<br />• Solves complex problems escalated from the Help Desk on user login, security, backup and restore and application issues.<br />• Implement solutions that will integrate with existing KADME’s applications .<br />• Implements, maintains and documents the backup and recovery systems to ensure that all KADME data are protected via backup and/or replication to offsite location. Familiar with Disaster Recovery plans and testing.<br />Skills / Job Requirements:<br />Advanced level (must-have requirements):<br />• Linux (RedHat, CentOS)<br />• Apache, Tomcat/Jboss<br />• PostgreSQL<br />• NFS, Samba and CIFS<br />• ActiveDirectory/LDAP, Kerberos and JAAS<br />• J2EE Web-applications (understanding and experience with concepts like .war, .ear, web.xml)<br />Experienced level (should-have requirements):<br />• Spring, beans<br />• WWW-concepts (HTML,CSS, Javascript, Servlet 2.5 & 3)<br />• SVN and Maven<br />• PostgreSQL “HStore” and “PostGIS” extensions<br />• WordPress<br />• PHP<br />• Single-Sign-On<br />Familiar (nice-to-have requirements):<br />• Oracle, SqlServer, MySQL<br />& bull; Ajax, Json, REST<br />• NoSQL, OWL, RDF, Ontology<br />• GIS, OpenLayers, ESRI, ArcSDE, Coordinate Reference Systems and Projections, Geoserver, EPSG<br />• Apache Lucene or similar indexing framework/technology<br />Profile / Background:<br />• You are service-minded and customer focused.<br />• You strive for continuous improvements, simplifications and engage in proactive problem solving.<br />• You have well-developed analytical skills.<br />• You are always learning and work well in a team environment.<br />• You are comfortable working in the English language. Other languages, especially Norwegian and Spanish, are a big plus!<br />KADME offers:<br />Excellent career opportunities in a growing, dynamic international work environment, and a competitive compensation package.<br />This position is located at our office in Stavanger, Norway. Precedence will be given to applicants that already reside in Norway.<br />P lease email your CV/resumé to jobs@kadme.com