[Contractor] Technical Assistant to Stephen Hawking at Stephen Hawking</h1> <article> <h1>[Contractor] Technical Assistant to Stephen Hawking at Stephen Hawking</h1> <p>2011-12-30 07:04:47</p> <strong>Location:</strong> London<br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/component/content/article/96">http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/component/content/article/96</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>The above post is expected to become available shortly, with a starting date around 20th-27th February 2012. The salary is expected to be in the region of £25k; the exact value will be confirmed in the near future. </p> <p>Disclaimer: This is not an official job applications page, however similar it may look! The official applications process will be started when the post has been properly advertised, probably in mid-January. We will not be able to offer the post to anyone on the strength of this unofficial submission alone; we can only direct people to apply through the official channel. However, if you fit our requirements, we would like to hear from you.</p> <p>The post is more accurately described by the title “Technical Assistant to Stephen Hawking.” It is not a PhD or Post-Doc position for academics looking to study physics, but a purely technical post to allow Prof. Hawking to function within the physics community and as a public speaker.</p> <p>The original purpose of this position was “to aid Professor Hawking in those areas which he has difficulty due to his disability.” The job has since expanded and now includes:</p> Managing national and international travel for Prof. Hawking and his care team. Expect to spend around 3 months per year abroad! Development and maintenance of Professor Hawking’s communication and speech systems Procurement and maintenance of his wheelchairs and accessible van Preparation of lecture graphics and public speaking Dealing with the media and press Answering inquiries from the public and maintaining the website <p>The post requires a wide range of skills, most importantly:</p> Ability to work under pressure Maintenance of “black box” systems with no instruction manual or technical support Computer literacy Electronics knowledge Ability to speak to a large audience Ability to show others how to use complex systems <p>The role of ‘Graduate Assistant to Professor Hawking’ is funded as a research post at the University of Cambridge. Normally it has been under a 12 month contract, although recent graduate assistants have stayed on for several years.</p> <p>For the application form, http://www.hawking.org.uk/apply/apply.php </p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/63/technical-assistant-to-stephen-hawking-at-stephen-hawking/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Full-time] Fused is seeking system administrators who love what they do at David</h1> <p>2011-11-28 14:14:04</p> <strong>Location:</strong> <br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.fused.com">http://www.fused.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>We’d truly like to find an individual whom loves what they do — whom lives, breathes and eats technology. We’re a small start-up but we’ve got grand plans, schemes and would love to involve people who truly care. We’re not out to find slaves, ticket monkies or those who burn through years and not see the light of day. We want well-rounded, intelligent individuals who are beyond driven by launching new cool things while making a difference.</p> <p>We’re playing with content delivery, xen, and lots of other interesting technologies that add spice to life. This isn’t your generic beat-up-luser environment — every last one of our client matters to us. Our end goal isn’t building some giant money-making scheme but to service every last client as though it’s the last thing we’ll do. Luckily enough, we’ve still gone from zero to hero in ~5-6 years and scaled from $30k per annum to almost a half million in revenue.</p> <p>We’re growing, we’re busy. Too busy to keep parsing resumes in fact. If you’re only just looking for a paycheque, this job isn’t for you (Of course, we do pay well though).If you love what you do, love technology and want the freedom to steer clear of an office (when desired), you might just be a fuser.</p> <p>Whom you are:</p> #Someone who loves linux, open source and what it stands for.Someone who lives, breathes and eats infosec / security on a daily basis. You’re on all of the mailing lists, keep up with the news & are in the loop. #You’re someone who gets a rise out of that new kernel you compiled and how much more secure & faster it is. #You like new technology. Xen? <span class="caps">KVM</span>? Virtual content delivery networks? They sound like fun! #Someone who thinks tedious tasks are easily fixed with Puppet, <span class="caps">CFE</span>ngine or something you’ve built in your spare time. #Someone whose responsible, intelligent and mature enough to work on their own without someone breathing down their neck. #We don’t babysit, and you hate babysitters anyways. Someone who doesn’t mind documenting what they’re up to, as it saves you time later. <p>And us?<br /> Charitable[See note 7], bootstrapped[See note 8], client-loving[See note 9] nerds that want to change the world — and we’re slowly learning what that means on a daily basis. We don’t have a shared office, but when we get one it’ll be disguised as a coffee shop where we can meet once in awhile for caffeine and discussion.</p> <p>We all like hiking, biking, travel, the outdoors & like the ability to live our lives without the interruption of a standard ’9-5’ day job in a drab office. We’ve preferred to build slowly as it gives us the opportunity to learn from our mistakes.</p> <p>Please note — don’t send us your standard ‘cover letter’ that you’ve been sending everyone else. Take a few minutes to write out an email on what you find particularly interesting about this post, why you think the job is for you and attach your resume to it. If your email is cut-and-paste, /dev/null might help make it feel at home.</p> <p>So, now back to the cut-and-dry list:<br /> Fused is a small web hosting firm based in Toronto (& soon Seattle/Vancouver as well) with roughly ~2,000 clients. Launched originally in ’01, the company was acquired by it’s current ownership in 2005 and has quickly grown to it’s size today.</p> <p>We’d like to consider ourselves the underdogs of the industry with a passion for helping clients and an extreme love for new projects. We’ve scaled from a mere hundred clients to 2,000 in two years time and are growing rapidly.</p> <p>Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux. [See note 1].</p> <p>We’re hiring & that means we’re after high quality, high energy[See note 2] individuals to join our growing team. We’re looking for a system / network administrator. The primary responsibility of the representatives will be backend management, primarily utilizing CentOS based linux systems with a hint of xen.</p> <p>Our primary offering is shared web hosting, backup services and content / media delivery.</p> <p>Skills / Experience required:</p> * 5+ years experience in a Linux server environment.Thorough experience with <span class="caps">RHEL</span> / CentOS, and Debian[See note 3]. * Expert experience with <span class="caps">LAMP</span>. * Curiosity & desire to learn/expand with nginx, Varnish, and other lovely entities are a plus. * Experience using / configuring / optimizing / beating on: cPanel/WHM, Apache (1.x / 2.x), <span class="caps">PHP</span>, PureFTPD & other daemons that are part of our web hosting recipe. * Cisco <span class="caps">IOS</span>[See note 4]. JunOS. Some idea of networking doesn’t hurt. * Some sort of shell scripting language — whether it be perl, sh, — even if you just love one language, love it thoroughly. * Ability to automate tasks is <span class="caps">KEY</span>. <p>Other programming languages considered assets[See note 5].<br /> Location: Telecommute. Whatever cafe, basement or beach you prefer. Whatever hours of your choosing.<br /> Details: 1mo contract term initially, long-term with equity available for the right individuals afterwards.<br /> Salaries: Salaries range from ~45k->75k per annum.</p> <p>Our system administrators will be responsible for deployment, optimization & securing our existing server fleets. Interaction with clients required though mostly limited to email, in conjunction with the odd phone call a few times a week. Blog posts, forum, and irc never hurt either.</p> <p>We work with a great clientbase and it’s difficult not to love them. We’re looking for the best of the best who want to work in a company that’s expanding rapidly, we want people who would love to grow with us but most of all whom like to work, get involved and dig in.</p> <p>We’re looking forward to your application — please send it to careers [@] fused.com</p> <p>Notes:<br /> [1]Admittedly, there’s one. But it was an accident, and we don’t manage it anyways. </p> <p>[2]Or ones at least powered by caffeine.</p> <p>[3]We prefer Debian, but most of our systems are CentOS based as a result of cPanel[See note 10]. We like sid, and miss him often.</p> <p>[4]I’d rather Juniper, myself. Level2 is handled by Cisco, we’re implementing L3 with Juniper in due time.</p> <p>[5] You must love at least one language — and not just for tweaking, but thorough script/code development.</p> <p>[6]If you’re after a position that requires effort, thought and contribution in full — and with the ability to ‘scale’ upwards, this is it.</p> <p>[7]We donate 100% of our December revenue to a random cause we come across. Our way of paying it forward.<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn4580271774f30ced4d0205">8</a></sup>We’re 100% bootstrapped and have never accepted a single cent in outside investment, nor even a line of credit. Our <span class="caps">CEO</span> has no credit cards, loans, or debt.</p> <p>[9]Our clients are our investors and that means that our daily battle is ensuring that they’re satisfied with us as a company and service provider. We like being held accountable.</p> <p>[10]One day, we’ll be built on 100% open source.</p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/58/fused-is-seeking-system-administrators-who-love-what-they-do-at-david/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Full-time] Edgewebhosting seeks Support Engineers that understand mission critical at Diana Morris</h1> <p>2011-11-11 17:18:21</p> <strong>Location:</strong> <br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://ewh.theresumator.com/apply/tR0gLj/Customer-Support-Engineer.html">http://ewh.theresumator.com/apply/tR0gLj/Customer-Support-Engineer.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>Apply online at:<br /> http://ewh.theresumator.com/apply/tR0gLj/Customer-Support-Engineer.html</p> <p>Edgewebhosting.net, based in Baltimore, MD, is a leading provider of high capacity managed hosting services and is looking to expand our customer support team. Edgewebhosting.net has a number of openings for Customer Support Engineers with at least 2-3 years of experience in server related technologies. We are seeking intelligent, highly motivated individuals that enjoy assisting clients and have a passion for troubleshooting, learning, and sharing knowledge.</p> <p>Duties:</p> <p>Prompt attendance, punctuality and professionalism. <br /> Respond to internal and external customer request via phone, chat and email. <br /> Responsible for installation, monitoring and administration of complex Windows and Linux installations. <br /> Maintain accurate customer records, and professional written and verbal communication. <br /> Monitor nightly backups, and scheduled server maintenance. <br /> Monitor and respond to systems and networking alarms and alerts. <br /> Escalate critical issues to on call support staff. <br /> Other duties as assigned. <br /> Required Skills/Qualifications:</p> <p>Minimum of 2-3 years Windows and/or Unix/Linux server administration. <br /> Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, and general desktop support. <br /> Ability to effectively communicate technical information to a wide range of audiences. <br /> Basic knowledge of Apache, <span class="caps">IIS</span> and experience or desire to learn application servers, such as <span class="caps">HTML</span>, <span class="caps">ASP</span>, Microsoft .Net, ColdFusion, JavaScript, <span class="caps">PHP</span>, and Perl. <br /> Fundamental understanding of <span class="caps">TCP</span>/IP, <span class="caps">DNS</span> and how their application. <br /> Basic knowledge of Internet protocols and services including: <span class="caps">TCP</span>/IP, <span class="caps">DNS</span>, <span class="caps">SMTP</span>, POP3, <span class="caps">FTP</span>, telnet, ping, <span class="caps">SSH</span>, and http/https. <br /> Excellent written and verbal communication. <br /> Additional Information:</p> <p>Experience with the technologies detailed above is preferred, but not strictly required. This position requires a combination of customer support and systems administration skills.</p> <p>All selected candidates will receive a training period of approximately 30 days during which time; candidates will be working Monday through Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Upon completion of training candidates will be receive a set schedule based on business need and candidate preference. EdgeWebHosting is a 24/7/365 operation, and thus weekends and nights may be required.</p> <p>Please note this posting is 2nd and 3rd shift candidates.only</p> <p>Benefits Include Paid Vacation, 401K Program with company match, and company paid Medical/Dental.</p> <p>Please include your salary requirements in your cover letter or resume. Applications without salary requirements may not be considered. Compensation will be dependent on candidate experience.</p> <p>Apply online at:<br /> http://ewh.theresumator.com/apply/tR0gLj/Customer-Support-Engineer.html</p> <br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/56/edgewebhosting-seeks-support-engineers-that-understand-mission-critical-at-diana-morris/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Full-time] OnApp is looking for a Cloud Integration Specialist at OnApp</h1> <p>2011-11-04 09:37:26</p> <strong>Location:</strong> London<br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://onapp.com/">http://onapp.com/</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>Our Cloud Integration Specialists work with our customers to make sure they have a slick and smooth transition to the cloud.</p> <p>Responsibilities<br /> You will work closely with OnApp customers, advising them on hardware specifications, network configurations and integration with billing platforms. You will also help our customers plan migrations and build tools to import their virtual machines into OnApp.</p> <p>Skills & experience<br /> As a Cloud Integrations Specialist, you will need:<br /> • A great telephone manner<br /> • Excellent written and spoken English<br /> • A customer-oriented attitude, and a proven ability to deliver first-class customer service<br /> • Fantastic Linux knowledge<br /> • Virtualization experience with one or more of the following – Xen/KVM/VMware/Hyper-V<br /> • Hands-on hardware and networking experience<br /> Scripting and coding skills would be very handy, too.</p> <p>This role is based in our UK office in London.</p> <p>If you are interested please send your CV and a few words about yourself to careers@onapp.com and we’ll be in touch.</p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/55/onapp-is-looking-for-a-cloud-integration-specialist-at-onapp/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Full-time] Tenure Track Position in Computer Science at University of Rochester</h1> <p>2011-10-19 12:51:19</p> <strong>Location:</strong> Rochester,NY<br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/recruit">http://www.cs.rochester.edu/dept/recruit</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>The University of Rochester Department of Computer Science seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty position beginning in Fall 2012 or Spring 2013. We are particularly interested in researchers in human-computer interaction and machine learning, but will consider outstanding candidates in other areas. Candidates must have a PhD in computer science or related discipline.</p> <p>The Department of Computer Science is a research-oriented department with a distinguished history of contributions in systems, theory, artificial intelligence, and <span class="caps">HCI</span>. We have a collaborative culture and strong ties to cognitive science, linguistics, and electrical and computer engineering. Over the past decade, a third of its PhD graduates have won tenure-track faculty positions, and its alumni include leaders at major research laboratories such as Google, Microsoft, and <span class="caps">IBM</span>.</p> <p>The University of Rochester is a private, Tier I research institution located in western New York State. The University of Rochester consistently ranks among the top 30 institutions, both public and private, in federal funding for research and development. Half of its undergraduates go on to post-graduate or professional education. The university includes the Eastman School of Music, a premiere music conservatory, and the University of Rochester Medical Center, a major medical school, research center, and hospital system.</p> <p>Candidates should apply online at https://www.rochester.edu/fort/csc/. Review of applications will begin on Dec. 1, and continue until all interview openings are filled. The University of Rochester has a strong commitment to diversity and actively encourages applications from candidates from groups underrepresented in higher education. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/53/tenure-track-position-in-computer-science-at-university-of-rochester/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Full-time] Fused is seeking quality sysadmins whom love what they do. at Fused Network</h1> <p>2010-11-02 14:45:20</p> <strong>Location:</strong> <br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.fused.com">http://www.fused.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>Preface: I’d like to note that we’ve been posting this same cut-and-dry thread for the past few years, and since then have literally modified one string. Other than the ‘roughly $number of clients’ little has changed with our backend minus the addition of fifteen odd servers. We’d truly like to find an individual whom loves what they do — whom lives, breathes and eats technology. We’re a small start-up but we’ve got grand plans, schemes and would love to involve people who truly care.</p> <p>We’re not out to find slaves, ticket monkies or people who will burn through years and not see the light of day. We want well-rounded, intelligent individuals who are beyond driven. Not by money, although it certainly helps with the bread costs, but by launching new cool things while making a difference. We’re playing with content delivery, xen, and lots of other interesting technologies that add spice. This isn’t your generic beat-up-luser environment and every last one of our client matters to us. Our end goal isn’t building some giant money-making scheme but to service every last client as though it’s the last thing we’ll do. Luckily enough, we’ve still gone from zero to hero in ~5-6 years and scaled from $30k per annum to over a half million in revenue.</p> <p>We’re growing, we’re busy. Too busy to keep parsing resumes in fact.</p> <p>The contract offering is just a cover. A hunt, a quest. For people whom care and want to work for a company that has been charitable, caring and kick-ass since launch.</p> <p>If you’re only just looking for a paycheque, this job isn’t for you (Of course, we do pay well though). If you love what you do, love technology and want the freedom to steer clear of an office, you might just be a fuser.</p> <p>Who are you:<br /> 1. Someone who loves linux, open source and what it stands for.<br /> 2. Someone who lives, breathes and eats infosec / security on a daily basis. You’re on all of the mailing lists, keep up with the news & are in the loop.<br /> 3. You’re someone who gets a rise out of that new kernel you compiled and how much more secure & faster it is.<br /> 4. You like new technology. Xen? <span class="caps">KVM</span>? Virtual content delivery networks? They sound like fun!<br /> 5. Someone who thinks tedious tasks are easily fixed with Puppet, <span class="caps">CFE</span>ngine or something you’ve built in your spare time.<br /> 6. Someone whose responsible, intelligent and mature enough to work on their own without someone breathing down their neck. We don’t babysit, and you hate babysitters anyways.<br /> 7. Someone who doesn’t mind documenting what they’re up to, as it saves you time later.</p> <p>Please note — don’t send us your standard ‘cover letter’ that you’ve been sending everyone else. Take two minutes to write out you found particularly interesting about this post, why you think the job is for you and attach your resume to it. If your email is cut-and-paste, it’ll go straight to my trash-bin.</p> <p>So, now back to the cut-and-dry list:</p> <p>Fused Network is a small web hosting firm based in Toronto with roughly ~2,000 clients. Launched originally in 2001, the company was acquired by it’s current ownership in 2005 and has quickly grown to it’s size today. We’d like to consider ourselves the underdogs of the industry with a passion for helping clients and an extreme love for new projects. We’ve scaled from a mere hundred clients to 2,000 in two years time and are growing rapidly.</p> <p>Linux. Linux. Linux. Linux.<br /> There are no windows machines on our network<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn12176240144f30ced4da22f">1</a></sup>.</p> <p>We’re hiring & that means we’re after high quality, high energy<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn12079161644f30ced4da616">2</a></sup> individuals to join our growing team. You’ll be part of a team that is ready to take the IT industry by storm (One client at a time!).</p> <p>We’re looking for a system / network administrator. The primary responsibility of the representatives will be backend management, primarily utilizing CentOS based linux systems with a hint of xen. Our primary offering is shared web hosting, backup services and content / media delivery.</p> <p>Skills / Experience required:<br /> • 5+ years experience in a Linux server environment.<br /> • Thorough experience with <span class="caps">RHEL</span> / CentOS, and Debian<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn7283154564f30ced4dade6">3</a></sup>.<br /> • Expert experience with <span class="caps">LAMP</span>. Experience with nginx, Varnish, and other lovely entities are a plus.<br /> • Experience using / configuring / optimizing: cPanel/WHM, Apache (1.x / 2.x), <span class="caps">PHP</span>, PureFTPD & other daemons that are part of the web hosting recipe.<br /> • Cisco <span class="caps">IOS</span><sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn21182151444f30ced4db1ce">4</a></sup> switch&router gear configuration / vlan configuration is a plus.<br /> • Some sort of shell scripting language — whether it be perl, sh, — even if you just love one language, love it thoroughly. Ability to automate tasks is <span class="caps">KEY</span>.</p> <p>Other programming languages considered assets<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn14697341114f30ced4db99f">5</a></sup>.</p> <p>Hours: 40 per week, preferably 40. 3mo term initially, long-term with equity afterwards.<br /> Location: Telecommuting. Whatever cafe, basement or beach you prefer.</p> <p>Our system administrators will be responsible for deployment, optimization & securing our existing server fleets. Some interaction with clients required although most will be limited to email and the odd phone call a few times a week.</p> <p>We’re looking for the best of the best who want to work in a company that’s expanding rapidly, we want people who would love to grow with us but most of all whom like to work, get involved and dig in.<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn9591385844f30ced4dc16e">6</a></sup></p> <p>You can get in touch via careers [@] fusednetwork.com</p> <p>[1] Okay, there’s one. But it was an accident, and we don’t manage it anyways.<br /> [2] Powered by caffeine and redbull is okay, too. <br /> [3] We prefer Debian, but most of our systems are CentOS based as a result of cPanel. We like sid, and miss him often.<br /> [4] I’d rather Juniper, myself. Level2 is handled by Cisco, we’re implementing L3 with Juniper in due time.<br /> [5] Seriously, you must love at least one language — and not just for tweaking, but thorough script development.<br /> [6] There be dragons. We’ve gone through a great deal of part-timers and contractors, and there’s some cleaning up to do. If you’re after a position that requires effort, thought and contribution in full — and with the ability to ‘scale’ upwards, this is it.</p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/20/fused-is-seeking-quality-sysadmins-whom-love-what-they-do-at-fused-network/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> <article> <h1>[Freelance] Hostjury is seeking writers / contributors at Hostjury</h1> <p>2010-06-19 02:25:54</p> <strong>Location:</strong> <br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.hostjury.com">http://www.hostjury.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong><br /> <p>Hostjury is seeking writers and contributors from all kinds of backgrounds to contribute original articles to the website. Pay will be per-article — topics will include open source software, content management systems, web hosting related news and information and opinions.</p> <p>Applicants should have a history of some writing whether it be on their own blogs or 3rd party resources. When applying please list these resources.</p><br /><br /><a href="http://jobs.hostjury.com/details/15/hostjury-is-seeking-writers-contributors-at-hostjury/">Apply to this job</a><br /> </article> </main></body></html>