Big Issue

[hirez]

Well, bollocks.

Anyone need a competent Unix admin?

Comments

[allezbleu.livejournal.com]

!!!!

didnt think id be seeing a post like that.

whats up?

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

=:-/

(Surely lots of places need competent Unix people?)

[diffrentcolours]

Cancer Research's head office at Lincoln's Inn Field in London are desperately in need of a competent Unix admin, but I don't know whether they're hiring.

Uhm, fuck.

[allezbleu.livejournal.com]

theres a job in milton keynes floating about somewhere...

[twicezero.livejournal.com]

Bad news sir?

how are you at sorta build and configuration management for software projects?
(basically understanding development type stuff and setting up and running build systems, sorting out build issues - that sorta thing?)

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, no....

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, the usual malarkey: 'Reducing the headcount in the team. No decisions made yet, but it'll be one of the six of you, etc'

This, then, is a pre-emptive wossname. Tonight, Matthew, I shall be polishing my CV. I shall only put back the Winders bits if things become truly desperate.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, one would like to think so.

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

bah,

if the electronic grapevine throws anything up i'll throw it your way.

Speaking from experience...

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

This would be a good time, if you have a mortgage and no redundancy cover, to pick some up.

(This is Not Allowed if you know you're going to be made redundant, but Quite Okay if you just know there are going to be redundancies - they figure such instances into the price).

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Haven't done any of that for a couple of years, but yeah - nightly builds and CVS wrangling are not unfamiliar topics.

I'll bung up a link to my CV later on so you can all have a jolly good laugh.

Re: Speaking from experience...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I believe I have some of that, but it obviously won't hurt to check.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Presumably quite close to MK, given the nature of such things...

[FX: Rimshot]

[mina-laury.livejournal.com]

Eep. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

[s0b.livejournal.com]

Senior Solaris Unix Systems Administrator

Position Purpose:

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Solaris Systems Administrator to work as part of a team. You will assist in the support, maintenance and expansion of the production systems for the world's largest peer-peer betting site.


Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications Required:


Very strong experience of administration of Veritas products on Solaris, including VXVM, VXFS and Veritas Cluster
Broad systems background with exposure to varied UNIX platforms
Sun Solaris versions 7 to 9 on Ultra Enterprise hardware
Experience of a variety of multivendor technologies is required, i.e. SAN and other storage technologies
Build tools to automate and mange systems without relying on 3rd party products
24 x 7 critical systems support
Excellent Solaris Unix Systems administration
Good technical and troubleshooting skills
Proven ability and experience working in demanding environments on 24 x 7 critical systems
Knowledge of RedHat Linux is desirable
Production experience of Oracle 8 or 9 is desirable
Experience in non-unix skills is desirable (networking, MS Windows)
Flexibility in working hours and job lists
Command line good, gui bad outlook


Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Should you require a full job description, please email engineeringjobs@betfair.com

No phone calls or agencies.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed for you.

[redcountess]

Fuck! Well hopefully the fact that only last month they were sending you on a training course means you're not it. Fingers crossed for you.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell.

Modulo the Veritas Cluster (which is not unlike HP's MC/ServiceGuard, IIRC) that's pretty much Stuff Wot I Are Done.

What's the deadline?

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

doh, thats not good, i'll keep my
fingers crossed mate.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

We've all been on training this month, I fear.

[ Sigh ]

Looks like I'm really going to be able to concentrate on work for the rest of the day...

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Bugger.

(Can offer little in the way of real proper help, I'm afraid, but will provide pints and receipt of spleen-venting.)

[s0b.livejournal.com]

No deadline per se - the req will remain open until we fill it.

[metallikat.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Simon's info looks promising though..
Hope you either escape the big pointy stick of doom, or get something sorted out quickly.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

Wishing you all the luck in the world...

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope it all works out.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

My co-worker slarti got laid off on Tuesday, actually. Academia is no longer safe, as WPI lost about 40 people this week, and there may be more.

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

ahh fuck. Sounds like you are doing the sensible thing, polish the C.V and try not to kill your boss. All the love in the world hun xx

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Aha!

Now I know which t-shirt to wear tomorrow... :)

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

Which one, replace with small shell script, no i will not fix your computer, kill your boss, fuck you I quit ???

[hirez.livejournal.com]

'Kill your boss' - I make a point of not owning any 'geek humo(u)r' shirts.

Ok, I think I've probably got a Veritas shirt from when I was on a course there, but it's white and I've never worn it. And there's a HP one, but I think I'm going to piss on that and set it on fire.

[reddragdiva]

There's lots of call for someone just like you, but mostly inside the M25 Force Field. You may well hit it lucky in the M4 Corridor if you don't mind a long commute.

(Suggest you clarify in the post that you're in danger, not actually fired yet!)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

"Arkive Bitter and Twisted Posse"

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think most people have read to the end of the thread by now...

(I fear you're right. I shall go live in a shed and weld things.)

[lastaii.livejournal.com]

Arsebiscuits!

But, on the bright side, there's a 83.4% chance that it won't be you. Not that *any* threat of redundancy can be considered a brightside really...

[reddragdiva]

Perhaps it's time to take over the music industry a little earlier than you expected. Apply the KLF Golden Rules to a sack of hammers, utilise the Chaos/Eris Reality Distortion Field ...

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Here..
http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/job_desc.cgi?04/07

Knew I'd seen something on my job hunts, just up the road in Bath.

But if it's only 1 in 6 you may well be OK?!

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

http://www.star.net.uk/about/about_employment.asp

I believe you fit under "Technical Services".

Let us know if you find anything you want to apply for, 'cos we get to share a finders fee of a few hundred quid.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

Commiserations, know how it feels etc. We have something like that but it's only at internal vacancy level ATM...
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/sector/computing/ ?

[aidan-skinner.livejournal.com]

Weak.

I saw something in Bristol on freebsd-jobs for C/Perl/FreeBSD yesterday, not sure if I still have the mail or not...

[the-tsm.livejournal.com]

Oh fucking hell.

Not you TOO??

I swear to christ half the people I know are unemployed. . .

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Embedded coding, unfortunately. These days I do mailsystems and storage and HA kit and stuff.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Gah! They want a degree.

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Might be worth sending off anyway and hoping they dont notice under the plethora of all the other stuff you have they say is desirable.

[octopusgrrl.livejournal.com]

Bugger :( Here's hoping yours gets to be one of the lucky "heads".

[aidan-skinner.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that was the one. I shall keep my ear to the ground as it were, I hope you don't need it though.

Good luck

- Aidan

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

You own a white t-shirt!?!?

Seriously though, Bugger and all that.
Will perform warious superstitious rituals on your behalf, since I'm of no practical use in the field of geek-job-hunting.

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

I once wore a microsoft tee shirt I felt so dirty!

[gothwin.livejournal.com]

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/careers/vacancies/

Unix System Admin job on offer! Would mean moving near Southampton...but don't let that put you off. Not bad working at the OS...good leave and we have flexi time.