<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe St. Louis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jstlouis@thompsontechnologies.com">jstlouis@thompsontechnologies.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM<br>Subject: ALE posting<br>To: Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Jim,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I hope you’re well. Can you post this for the ALE?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thompson Technologies is presently looking for a full-time <b>Linux Engineer</b> with for our client in <b>Marietta, GA </b>to provide secure, available, scalable and operationally excellent infrastructure services to a rapidly growing organization. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">You will use your skills and experience for the following:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Build, monitor and manage critical infrastructure primarily on the Linux platform, with some client support requirements in Windows</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Design and implement Puppet deployment system to support automated host deployment, configuration and updates</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Design and develop solutions for monitoring and alarming essential services</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Watch for external threats to critical services and take preventative actions towards managing availability and scalability</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Work in coordination with others to develop strategic solutions</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Basic Qualifications</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Minimum 3 years of Linux/Unix System Administration experience</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">B.A./B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Programming experience in a scripting language (Shell required, Python and/or Perl a plus)</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Networked services implementation and troubleshooting (DNS, DHCP, NTP, LDAP, SAMBA)</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Deep Linux knowledge on Red Hat and Ubuntu platforms</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Basic understanding of Windows client and server environments, and their interaction with Linux servers (via Samba, LDAP, etc.)</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Strong knowledge of network and server security</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Preferred Qualifications</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience with Cisco ASA firewalls, Dell switches, VLAN topologies</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience with Heartbeat or Pacemaker cluster management software</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience with DRBD networked RAID</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience with OpenNMS monitoring, or secondarily Nagios</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience in writing automation scripts and self-service tools</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Experience with Puppet automated administration engine</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">For immediate consideration, please send your resume and phone number to </span><a href="mailto:jstlouis@thompsontechnologies.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">jstlouis@thompsontechnologies.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thompson Technologies has been named several times as one of the fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. 500. We have recently been selected as one of Atlanta's 50 fastest growing companies by the Atlanta Business Chronicle! Our growth is due mainly to a partnering approach with our Clients. We are focused on making Clients successful, and we do it with honesty and integrity.</span></i><u></u><u></u></p>
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