System Administrator with Scripting Expertise

We are looking for a system administrator with scripting expertise to join our talented team. We develop and maintain web based architectures for very large web sites. The position is largely telecommuting, but periodic face-to-face meetings are required. Prefer candidates within a 2 hour drive of 01035 zip code, Hadley, MA.

How to Apply

Email resumes as simple text email or as web URLs of your resume at jobs@tnrglobal.com. Please do not email word processing documents. (This is for conversion and virus reasons.) Be sure to include contact phone number and any calling limitations.

In the body of your email, answer this question:

“On RedHat 5.3 system, you start Postfix. It won’t start. Name the first 3 items you would check to determine the issue.”

Responsibilities:

  • Automation of existing tools – internal CMS, Web GUI, Wiki, ticketing system, document management system
  • Development of new tools – including, but not limited to cloud tools, tools to manage Amazon web services, OpenVZ and other virtualization technologies, search systems including SOLR/Lucene
  • Day-to-day management of the company’s and clients’ Linux server networks under oversight of a senior administrator:
  • Updating systems, installing new OSes, installing applications, reconfiguring the network, managing accounts, managing email, monitoring news groups for security alerts and general Sys Admin responsibilities

Experience Required:

  • PHP, Perl, Python, shell scripting required
  • 5 years of real world experience
  • Benchmarking, best practices experience
  • Redhat, Centos, debian, Linux installation and administration experience
  • Cloud/Virtualization experience- especially OpenVZ, AWS and Xen
  • High Availability technology

Required Skills:

  • Tools/UI development
  • Scripting – Stream based scripting, Web & System tools dev, Webapp development
  • LAMP deployment and administration

Familiarity with:

  • Search engine technologies: Lucene/Solr, or any proprietary search system (s)
  • AWS: EC2, RDS, ELB, SNS
  • Tools: bash, ssh, vi (or) jove/emacs/jed
  • Source Installation Tools: configure, make, perl make, cpan, pear
  • Basic web page coding, HTML
  • Archive Updating Tools: rpm, apt-get, up2date
  • Database: mysql
  • Revision control systems: RCS, subversion
  • Email MTA: Postfix, sendmail, qmail

Non-technical Requirements:

  • Technical writing and documentation
  • Previous experience working primarily remotely/telecommuting – ability to work with minimum face to face supervision
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Excellent communications skills in both verbal and written English
  • Attention to detail, organizational skills, documentation skills
  • Proven ability to successfully manage projects from start to finish
  • Completed project life-cycle tasks include requirements gathering, designing a project spec, implementation, testing, documentation and deployment

You are expected to have your own computer and high speed internet connection. You will work with our team of Internet experts in many locations, using a number of online tools to coordinate your projects. The work is largely telecommuting but periodic face-to-face meeting are required, especially at the start of projects.

Equal Opportunity Employer
TNR has a long-standing commitment to the principles of equal employment opportunity. We recruit and employ qualified persons without regard to gender, race, age, sex, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Individuals shall be judged solely on their job-related aptitude, training, skills, and performance.

Enterprise Search Usability

Search needs to be easy to use if you expect your end users to benefit from it. 

A few examples of usability:

  • A query/search field needs to be clearly visible on the page where users are prompted to search for information.
  • If a query returns too many results to be useful, the user can choose to ‘drill down’ to the essentials. They can limit the search to English language documents, or document created in the past 30 days, or documents only from the finance department. Custom qualifiers can be defined.
  • When a search for ‘doors’ returns thousands of results, a navigation tool on the side will provide helpful links to the different categories – aluminum doors, wooden doors, folding doors, garage doors, etc. When you choose aluminum doors from the list, the next menu allows you to limit results by size of door, by manufacturer, by location, etc.
  • Pre-defined searches can automatically check new data and send an email to the user, or an alert to a mobile phone.

With so many features available, it is vital to implement a customized enterprise search solution based on an in-depth study of your needs. TNR Global engineers can help you at any stage of development: selecting between proprietary vendors and open source solutions, hardware options and level of upgrades.

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TNR Global

TNR Global is a systems design and integration company focused on providing customers effective search and cloud computing solutions. We develop scalable web-based search solutions focusing on news sites, publishing, web directories and catalogs, information portals, education, manufacturing and distribution, customer service, and life sciences.

About TNR Global

TNR Global (TNR) is a systems design and integration company focused on providing customers effective search and cloud computing solutions. We develop scalable web-based search solutions focusing on news sites, publishing, web directories and catalogs, information portals, education, manufacturing and distribution, customer service, and life sciences.

We have over 10 years of hands-on experience in web systems and enterprise search implementations, both proprietary and open source. We specialize in FAST ESP and Apache Lucene/Solr search applications.

TNR is product and vendor neutral.  We work with vendors to bring value to customers by offering in-depth product knowledge and impeccable customer service.  We are uniquely qualified to integrate custom search applications.

Our specialties are:

  • Apache Lucene/Solr audits, updates, implementations
  • FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) implementations for data intensive web sites
  • Web based system administration and application management
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform for deploying applications into the cloud

    TNR Global services clients 24/7 around the world, with major clients currently throughout the United States and strategic partners located in Europe.  Our professional team combines the expertise of engineers, system architects, and business professionals with decades of international, hands-on work experience.


    Careers at TNR Global

     Culture and Values

    TNR Global is a small, friendly group of passionate developers and technology professionals. We have a natural curiosity for learning, exploring new ideas, and innovating solutions for our customers. Founded  in 2004, TNR is a family-friendly company that prides itself on a diverse workforce, flexible-yet-committed work ethic, and its pragmatic expertise. Originally a “virtual workplace,” TNR Global now has a permanent office in Hadley, Massachusetts where developers work on site for training, meetings, and face time with senior stakeholders. Although we are based in Hadley, telecommuting is still a strong part of our culture.

    Interested ? However TNR is no longer hiring for advanced technical jobs- check where much of our team now lives at: http://www.esperdyne.com/

    Some local work open see below

    Openings:

    Project assistant: 

    1) WordPress: simple content additions and site checking.
    Will offer training for advanced wordpress operations.

    2) Collection Distributing:
    100s of books, records etc
    To be reviewed for value using online tools
    Based on value: sold (mostly online) or given away; and then shipped or delivered locally

    3) Art work: Work on marketing fine-art Tarot deck based on Dia de los Muertos: See tarotmuertos.com
    Social media postings, and Tarot pulls
    Making and Following up contacts at local Tarot readers, Tarot Stores, Mexican Restaurants, etc
    If tarot skilled, can arrange local or digital tarot readings

    A person local to Greenfield MA is required.
    In-person meetings needed for initial training and then based on project need.
    Much of the work can be done remotely, internet access required.

    Timing would be initially based on available schedules, then settling on 20 hrs/wk.
    Hourly rate open, esp depending on training needed, commissions on sales would be shared.

    How to Apply:

     

    Email resumes as simple text email or as web URLs of your resume to jobs@tnrglobal.com. Please do not email word processing documents. (This is for conversion and virus reasons).
    Be sure to include contact phone number and any calling limitations. Please do not call, we will email or call you if we are interested in scheduling an interview.

    Equal Opportunity Employer

    TNR has a long-standing commitment to the principles of equal employment opportunity. We recruit and employ qualified persons without regard to gender, race, age, sex, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Individuals shall be judged solely on their job-related aptitude, training, skills, and performance.

    Our Team

    The operating part of the Team has moved to Esperdyne, managed by Mr McIntosh

    http://www.esperdyne.com/

     

    Update:

    Mr Roth is now semi-retired, joined by Ms Thorndike and working on projects you can see at:  http://www.thrivesmedia.com/ 

    Ms Goncharova is now a CPA and runs http://financealpha.com/

    Mr Klatsy and Mr Peck have moved to Esperdyne

    Ms Lynn, Ms. Schanfeld and Mr Miles have moved on to other ventures


     


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    Richard Roth, CEO, Founder
    Rich Roth, CEO and CTO of TNR Global, has been in the computer field for over 40 years and has been involved in development and marketing software products for personal and larger computers since 1975. Under his direction, TNR has grown into a leader in the field of enterprise search implementation. Rich Roth is an expert in software design and in cross-platform computer technology. Rich has been a UNIX user, administrator and developer since the early 1980’s, and assisted with early business planning for RedHat Linux. He was a member of the Homebrew Club at Stanford, a founding board member and webmaster at Hidden-Tech and numerous business and technical organizations. Masters of System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973

     

     

    Michael_Resized_for_About_UsMichael McIntosh, VP, Enterprise Search Technologies
    Michael McIntosh leads the technology development and innovation efforts for TNR’s search engine and database development services. Michael brings more than 16 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. He has extensive experience developing, integrating and maintaining search technology solutions for companies such as FAST Search and Lycos. He spear-headed migration efforts from physical servers used for search engine clusters to cloud computing (Amazon) platform. Michael has worked with a number of Web 2.0 technologies, most recently developing a real-time Ajax-driven query keywords suggestion tool. He has hands on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including: Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ajax, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, and Unix/Linux.
    Computer Management, ICM School of Business, 1995

    Michael_KlatskyMichael Klatsky, VP, System Administration
    Michael Klatsky has over a decade of experience in developing and deploying highly-available Internet systems. He is proficient deploying Amazon Web Services for use in development and production systems. His industry expertise includes administration of authentication, authorization, and accounting systems, client/server architecture, wireless Internet access networks, ISP architecture, distributed and cloud computing, particularly EC2, and single sign-on systems. Michael is proficient in deploying databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Berkeley DB, LDAP), mail servers (SMTP/POP/IMAP), wireless Internet systems, clustering and HA Systems, VOIP technologies, messaging systems, and anti-spam/anti-virus systems.
    Westfield State College, 1989

    Natasha Goncharova, Managing Director, Co-founder
    Natasha Goncharova is a co-founder of TNR Global. Natasha is responsible for TNR’s operations management and business development. She has over a decade of experience in finance and business development. Prior to her work at TNR, she gained international experience in financial consulting (IBTCI) and in corporate finance. Her experience includes financial management, budgeting, and market analysis
    CPA, State of Massachusetts, 2011
    MBA, Isenberg SOM, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003
    Masters of Finance, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, 1998

     

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    Karen Lynn, Director of Business Development
    Karen has 20 years experience in sales and general management experience. She co-founded an Internet start-up business based on writing and publishing biographies and memoirs, serving as the VP of Sales and Marketing. She is knowledgeable about digital content, publishing, and e-reader technologies. In her role with TNR Global, she is responsible for the overall marketing, sales, branding, social media, PR, SEO/SEM, internal and external communications. She serves as a liaison for clients and the TNR technical team members on specific projects and co-collaborate on the overall management and direction of the company. 
    Bachelor of Science, HTM Program, Isenberg SOM, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1992

     

    jeffpeckJeff Peck, Senior Software Engineer
    Jeff is a highly skilled web developer with 11 years of experience working on web related projects. He specializes in PHP frameworks and is also proficient in Perl, Python, and other web server technologies including Apache Solr. Jeff has successfully completed training from Lucid Imagination on Apache Solr. He has worked extensively with front-end technologies such as Prototype and jQuery, as well Actionscript 3, Flex, and other technologies such as Cocoa and iPhone development.
    Masters of Computer Science & Engineering, Cryptography & Computer Security, University of Connecticut, 2007

     

    C._Miles_7-12-2011_2Chris Miles, Senior Software Engineer
    Christopher Miles has over 15 years experience developing custom software solutions for the enterprise. He has constructed solutions that include managing mailing lists and response data for direct marketing; collecting, organizing and reporting on real estate information for appraisers and streamlining the sharing of patient data between health care organizations and the physicians of their patients. His expertise in a wide range of frameworks and tools allows him to concentrate on a solution that best fits the customer and their business practices.
    Information Systems, Springfield Technical Community College, 1996

     

     


    Tamar Schanfeld, Joomla Project Manager
    Tamar manages Joomla! projects at TNR Global, including ShofarSites. She is an experienced technical and marketing writer, and has written manuals, specifications, user guides, and articles for high tech and financial firms in the United States and Israel. She specializes in making technical material interesting and accessible to both technical and non-technical users. 
    Marlboro College, 2001

    Laurel Thorndike, Social Media Specialist, Artist
    Laurel develops content and graphics for TNR Global published sites, including WeLoveMuseums.com, ShakerStudies.info and clients.  She is an integral member of the content team researching topics and locations, and expanding the reach of these sites. She is a professional painter and graphic artist developing elements and designs for these sites and clients.

    SerahRose Roth, Site developer, Graphic Artist, Social Media Specialist.
    Serah develops strategies for TNR Global published sites. She develops content and graphic design and elements.  She is a key maintainer of the site infrastructure specifically for WordPress sites.  She is a professional actor and director and founder of the  Ganemeed Theatre project,