[Mpls-pm] JOB: Hosting Engineer

[Baker, Jason]

Hosting Engineer

 
VISI provides business-class ISP, web and application hosting services
to businesses and residential customers.  VISI, the largest locally
owned ISP, is a privately-held company with an engineering office
located in downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. The company was profitable
during the past fiscal year and recently ranked a top 10 hosting company
in the Twin Cities.

VISI needs a hosting engineer to support new business growth. This
person will have an impact on technical decisions within the
organization.

We use a number of different technologies including Windows Server 2000
& 2003, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory, Red Hat Linux,
Apache, Mysql, CommuniGate, Watchguard firewalls, Urchin, BIND, Cold
Fusion, and Tomcat. The ideal candidate will have experience with some
of these technologies - and the ability to pick up new skills very
quickly.

Our staff members work on a flex-time basis, at the office and at home.
Vacation time is flexible, although staff may be required to have local
access to datacenters during specified holidays. This is scheduled on a
rotation basis. We provide industry competitive salaries and benefit
plans.


Required Skills 

Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing
proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to
customers or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely
with management. 

Ability to solve problems quickly and independently. 

A solid understanding of an operating system; understands paging and
swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers
do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use
performance analysis to tune systems. 

A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment
concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming,
the design of consistent network-wide filesystem layouts. 

Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, VBScript,
PHP, a shell) is preferred. 

Experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003 and Linux.
Experience with Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SQL 2000 is preferred.


Required Background 

At least one year of previous system administration experience. 

Desirable Background and Skills 

A degree in computer science or a related field. 

Computer programming background in any applicable language. 



Appropriate Responsibilities 

Designs/implements complex local and wide-area networks of servers. 

Manages a large (100+ servers) network of servers. 

Works under general direction from management. 

Establishes/recommends policies on system use and services. 

Has purchasing authority and responsibility for purchase justification.

VISI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Send resume to resume at VISI.com

 
VISI
12 South 6th Street
Suite 630
Minneapolis, MN 55402