Freelance Jobs – April 12, 2011
Market News and Homepage Editor
DESCRIPTION:
Company seeks editor who is knowledgable about the stock-market and a follower of financial news. Editor should be tech-savvy, detail-oriented, and have experience with HTML and web publishing.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years experience in following and writing about U.S. stock markets
- Intimate understanding of the stock market’s various sectors and sub-sectors, and their key players
- Intense familiarity with online financial media and the financial/econo-blogosphere
- Ability to quickly research and grasp unfamiliar topics
- Experience with RSS, Twitter, HTML and web publishing
Company Information: Seeking Alpha
Contact Information: Apply Online
Senior-Technical Architect
DESCRIPTION:
As a Client Technical Lead (CTL), the successful candidate will be responsible for the daily maintenance and troubleshooting of complex hosted solutions in a high profile multi-client environment. The CTL will interface with internal as well as client technical staff for the purposes of troubleshooting, design and planning. The candidate must have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment with other Client Technical Leads to ensure outstanding customer service to clients and partners.
REQUIREMENTS:
Education & Experience
- Bachelors degree or relevant experience in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or other related field
- Strong understanding of Unix (Solaris) and Windows operating systems
- History of troubleshooting applications in a web/app/database environment
- Experience with Oracle, SQL, BEA WebLogic, Apache, and/or Ariba preferred
- Expert knowledge of Standard Unix text editing tools (ie, vi)
- Basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot networking and firewall issues
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
CORE COMPETENCIES
- System Engineering
- Application Management
- Data Integrity & Recovery
- Change Management
- Baseline Management
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
- Platforms: Solaris 9/10, Windows Server 2000/2003, Red Hat Linux
- Applications: Apache, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Ariba
- Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL
- Scripting: C, borne, bash, korn, JavaScript, perl
- Other: TCP/IP, NFS, DNS
Required Qualifications:
- Formal training or hands on experience in the following technical skills may be required:
- ATG Commerce suite (framework, Commerce, Merchandising, Search, Campaign Optimizer, Outreach, ACI)
- UNIX – Redhat Enterprise Linux and or Sun Solaris (AIX or HPUX a plus)
- Apache, IIS web servers
- Oracle / BEA Weblogic
- Tomcat / jBoss application servers
- Java 1.4, 1.5, 1.6+
- Endeca
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Oracle, Oracle RAC and Dataguard, MS SQL, MySQL databases
- Veritas Volume Manager or Cluster Server
- Cisco switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers
- Citrix Netscaler or F5 load balancers
- Checkpoint firewalls
- Windows Server OS
Desired Qualifications:
- Five or more years related technical experience with the ATG suite
- Five or more years related technical experience working with enterprise application servers such as Jboss or similar
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
- Experience in designing, building or supporting large scale enterprise class solutions
- Experience in designing, building, deploying or supporting large scale multi-tenant eCommerce solutions
- Experience integrating multiple enterprise, third-party and back-office system including troubleshooting and proactive availability architecture.
- Enterprise wide deployment planning and support for mission critical applications
- Development of technical documentation on applications and systems
- Takes initiative, quick learner and has desire to improve the quality and reliability of client solutions
Location: US only
Company Information: AT&T
Contact Information: Apply Online
Community Moderator
DESCRIPTION:
Seeking passionate motivated social media fans to work on efforts developing and fostering company’s user community. Moderators will be active and vocal participants, spurring conversations, listening, informing, connecting, and generally making the community a great place. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are vital to the success of this position.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Passion for communicating with and meeting people
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and interpersonal skills)
- Someone who can work both independently and as a strong contributor to a team
- Able to balance the needs of the community with the needs of the business
- Extensive engagement in and understanding of online social networks
- 1-2 years experience, preferably in community moderation and/or social media
- Must be proficient in MS Office suite program
- Interest in a wide variety of subject matter
- Ability to work quickly & efficiently, at a high degree of quality
- Must be able to work evenings and weekends.
Job Term: PT position, primarily evenings & weekends
Company Information: Ask.com
Contact Information: Apply Online
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