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Subject: Hyves is looking for a SYSTEM ENGINEER (for social networking company in the center of Amsterdam, Europe)

Rosalie van Schaick posted a job: Hyves is looking for a SYSTEM ENGINEER (for social networking company in the center of Amsterdam, Europe)

"Hyves (http://www.hyves.net) is the dominant Social Network in The Netherlands, reaching more than 60% of the Dutch population, serving 275 million page views per day. Besides that it has one of the coolest offices of Europe: http://whatiserp.net/just-for-fun/10-cool-office-in-the-world/ At Hyves we’re looking for great System Engineers who want to work for a software company in one of the coolest cities in Europe: Amsterdam. Function The System Engineers within Hyves are responsible for the full infrastructure of the Hyves server park, which consists of 3000+ Linux servers and is spread over three physical locations. Most of the traditional system administration has been automated. System Engineering tasks consist of optimizing performance, designing scalable systems to facilitate the fast growing Hyves communities, and working closely together with Development. The site is serving 60k images per second, and a total of over 7 billion page views a month. Pages are rendered in less than one second. For our systems we make use of (and contribute to) open source solutions. Important components of the Hyves platform are Gentoo, MySQL, Python, memcached, gearman, redis, and puppet. What are we looking for? We are looking for system engineers who have at least five years of system engineering experience, preferably in Web 2.0 companies. They have a passion for Linux and for system engineering. The ideal candidate is comfortable in bash, is not afraid to patch his (or her) own kernel, and has relevant experience with open source products. (S)He is a pragmatic and curious person, and a fast learner. The candidate is an EU-citizen, speaks fluent English and has a driver’s license. Responsibility • Ensure maximum availability and performance of the server infrastructure • Server and service monitoring • Performance tuning and capacity planning • Develop, modify, and test system profiles in puppet • Take part in the 24x7 on-call rota • Propose and implement improvements to current setup • Stay up-to-date with new technologies and developments If you also bring experience in the categories below you get bonus points: • Dutch speaking • Experience in maintaining a large server park • Programming experience • Compiling and packaging software for a linux distribution • Advanced networking experience Moving to the Netherlands? You are not the first: Hyves employs programmers from all over the world. Hyves will help you with: Housing, relocation, paperwork and the language. Please send your resume to: Rosalie van Schaick: work@hyves.nl http://www.werkenbijhyves.hyves.nl/en"

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