Freelance Jobs- May 27, 2011
Operations Engineer
DESCRIPTION:
Canonical is hiring an Operations Engineer to join the Ubuntu One team. Ubuntu One is a suite of personal cloud services that let people secure, sync and stream their content across multiple platforms and devices. As an Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the service quality is at the best possible level by developing processes and tools for monitoring complex web based services, performing automated testing and performance measurements, and working with the rest of the development team to triage, prioritize, and resolve issues. You will help us scale services from small initial deployments through to millions of users. We are looking for a self-motivated Operations engineer with strong experience and track record in software development with a focus and interest in: automation, reporting, and scaling. What kids these days are calling “DevOps.”
- Monitoring and meaningful reporting of health of large scale web service deployment
- Diagnosing whole system problems that cross project and service ownership boundaries
- Offer expert guidance to the team on how to further automate deployments and design systems to run in a cloud environment like Amazon EC2
- Identify and coordinate the resolution of errors from logs and automated tool
- Deploy automation tools for increasing test coverage and running integration and acceptance tests across all supported platforms
- Participate in continuous code review along with the rest of the team, learning and offering constructive feedback.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong use of web, building and deploying web applications for 5 years or equivalent
- Experience of working in the development of applications or services intended for widespread, consumer use
- Proven track record of working in a commercial environment where you have been working as a member of a team building a significant product.
- Management and configuration of services in Linux, with a solid grasp of web technologies, web services, and networking.
- Experience with modern deployment tools (Puppet, Chef)
- Ability to debug, identify and pinpoint problems in complex networked web applications (load balancers, caching servers, etc)
- Experience with tools such as Hudson, Selenium, EC2/Eucalyptus/OpenStack is a plus.
- Familiarity with open source and actively participating in open source projects.
- Strong testing and development skills (python or other dynamic language).
- Experience with packaging software (DEB or RPM) is a plus
- Strong communication and cooperation skills
- Ideally educated to a degree level in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent
- Comfortable with online communication and collaboration such as mailing lists, IRC and wikis
- Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Willingness to travel internationally, for periods of one or two weeks and occasionally longer, for developer-oriented meetings and sprints
- Strong English communication skills, especially in email and IRC environments
Location: Home Based. Europe or America time zones.
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Company Information: Canonical
Contact Information: Apply Online
Transcriptionists
DESCRIPTION:
Will provide transcription services ranging from TV, Marketing Research, Medical, Legal, Business, Spanish or Insurance for the company’s various clients.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Junior Transcriptionists with 0-1 years of experience
- Senior Transcriptionists with 1-5 years of experience
Company Information: Rays Transcript
Contact Information: To apply for any of these positions, please send your resume in MS Word or ASCII text to jobs@raystranscript.com with the position title and location in the subject line of the email.
Ninja Front End Web Developer
DESCRIPTION:
So, who are we you ask? We’re TasteBuddy, the next hot thing in Restaurant focused start-ups. We are looking for the stealthiest Ninja Front End Web Developer to secretly develop one of the top new destinations for Foodies and their friends across the world!
As our Ninja Front End Developer, you will be looked at to bring your extensive creativty and design skills to the team. You will be given extensive freedom to explore your ideas, but must be able to communicate them effectively to others.
REQUIREMENTS:
Hardcore Ninja Credentials
- Great sense of modern trends in web design, with the ability to create websites that would be called works of art
- Subscriber to the “Pixel Perfect” design mantra
- Proficiency with HTML5 and CSS (we use SCSS with Compass)??
- Previous experience in Web 2.0 Mashups (Google Maps, Facebook Javascript SDK and other social network APIs)
- Extensive experience in JQuery
- Experience with SVN Version Control System?? (Optional)
- Past Ninja Achievements documented in a portfolio is required??
Personalities of a True Ninja
- Highly-organized with meticulous (almost stealth-like) attention to detail
- Ability to operate under time constraints
- Comfortable working on a team
- Strong proponent of web standards and accessibility.
What to Submit?
- List and description of Past Projects (We don’t want your resume)
- Portfolio of your past work (This is a must!)
- Indicate your availability (When can you start, how many hours can you work per week)
- One sentence on why you should be hired (Put this in the subject line)
Company Information: TasteBuddy
Contact Information: dev@tastebuddy.me
URL: Authentic Jobs
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