[linuxjobs] Mobile Operations Engineer, Yahoo!, London

[Andy Smith]

----- Forwarded message from Paul Birnie <pbirnie at yahoo-inc.com> -----

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:37:01 +0100
From: Paul Birnie <pbirnie at yahoo-inc.com>

Hi everyone,

We have an opening for a Unix Systems Administrator / Operations
Engineer in the Mobile team working for Yahoo!.

Mobile experience will be useful, but not essential. The job will
require a candidate with strong experience of running Unix based
services in a 24/7 production environment. 

FreeBSD or Linux, Java, Tomcat, Apache, SSL, PHP, MySQL skills will all be
useful.

Primary location will be Central London with frequent travel to
Stockholm, Sweden.

To apply, email CV to me.  Full job spec below.

Cheers,
Paul


Position Title: Service Engineer
Country: United Kingdom
Function: Engineering 
Position Type: Permanent 
Salary: Market rate  

Job Description

This position is for a Service Engineer in the Yahoo! Mobile team. The
individual should be highly motivated with extensive experience in
installation, configuration and continuous operation of large scale server
systems used by millions of web browser and/or client users. Commercial
experience of supporting mobile technologies (such as WAP, SMS and client
services) will be a plus. The individual needs to be a self starter and a
fast learner and be able to manage the deployments and the ongoing
maintenance of multiple products with aggressive timelines. The successful
candidate will work closely with product managers, software engineers, QA
engineers, operations engineers, and IT procurement to plan, manage and
execute the product deployment and support process.

Requirements

• A proven track record of operating deployed server products with supported
number of users in the millions
• Depth of experience in integrating servers, networks, clients, etc. in
order to achieve a complex deployment a reality 
• Ability to successfully manage launches for multiple products with
different launch dates 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with
engineering teams and product management 
• Excellent analytical and prioritization skills for successfully managing
multiple systems with severe time and resource constraints 
• Experience in being part of a team that shipped highly scalable server
products is desirable 
• BA/BS required, preferably in computer science or engineering 
• Frequent travel to Stockholm, Sweden will be involved
To be successful, the candidate must have solid experience with the
following skills: 
• Operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux or similar forms of Unix)
• Apache (including PHP, SSL, virtual hosts, load balancing, etc.)
• Tomcat, JBoss, and other Java based applications
• MySQL (installation, configuration, replication
• Monitoring tools (for machines, services, networks, SLAs, etc.)
• Networking knowledge (including TCP/IP, VPNs, etc.)
• Extensive experience of GSM mobile related technologies (WAP, SMS, SMSCs,
SMPP & HTTP), operator network connectivity, SMS/WAP gateway/application
level infrastructure, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the deployment of new products and services in a
timely and structured manner, including planning, h/w procurement, software
installation, integration tests, internal and external trials, and world
wide deployments to millions of end users
• Constantly improve processes and tools to enhance scalability,
availability and maintainability of the systems
• Produce metrics and measure all aspects of operating the systems, with a
view to keeping service outage to a minimum and complying with SLAs
• Perform root cause analysis of production issues and proactively identify
operational issues; drive the decision making process to improve the systems
and determine solutions to those issues in collaboration with IT, product
and engineering teams
• Work collaboratively with mobile service engineers at other locations
worldwide to ensure the smooth running of operations, and transfer
application support to tier 2 NOC







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