Media Software Engineer XML LAMP PHP at ARCHIVE

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library committed to preserving the world's digital cultural artifacts. Used by over 6 million people, this resource is becoming part of how the Internet works. Our job is to put the best humanity has to offer within reach of students, educators and the general public. Find out more about our organization and web archive at www.archive.org. We are located in San Francisco in the beautiful Presidio. We are seeking a media software engineer to work closely with our team to expand our collections of videos, audios, software, and educational content.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Convert third party metadata to XML metadata format.
• Import large (multiple terabytes) datasets.
• Extract and reorganize third party datasets from remote systems via ftp, http, rsync, and NAS.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain software that enables Archive employees and partners to filter, organize, and manipulate their archived content.
• Audit archive contents and provide interested parties with summaries of data volume, usage, and loss.
• Maintain Data Collection Department's existing codebase.

Responsibilities Convert third party metadata to XML metadata format.

• Import large (multiple terabytes) datasets.
• Extract and reorganize third party datasets from remote systems via ftp, http, rsync, and NAS.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain software that enables Archive employees and partners to filter, organize, and manipulate their archived content.
• Audit archive contents and provide interested parties with summaries of data volume, usage, and loss.
• Maintain Data Collection Department's existing codebase.

Required Skills

• Current experience with LAMP, PHP5 and Perl.
• Current experience with XML and UTF-8.
• Familiarity with UNIX (Linux), including filesystems, process management, and shell operation.
• Experience with programmatically interacting with (wrapping) web-based interfaces.
• No fear in the face of large datasets (hundreds of terabytes).
• Effective communication skills with geeks and non-geeks alike, both inside and outside the Archive

Preferrede Skills

• Understanding of audio and video container formats and codecs
• Experience with open source tools for manipulating multimedia data (ffmpeg, faac, et al)
• Experience with XSLT
• Experience with SSH
• Experience with Samba
• Experience developing software for clustered systems

Education BS or advanced degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Sorry, but no telecommuting.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@archive.org with the subject line "Media Software Engineer". The Archive thanks all applicants for their interest, but advises that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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FreeBSD Network / Web Services Admin for a short term at Octane

Location: Canada

Description:

We are currently looking for a FreeBSD Network / Web Services Admin for a short term (2-3 months?) contract to help us get our servers in order.
We currently maintain several FreeBSD servers at an off-site co-location facility. Boxes were added to our network as we expanded and as such, we would like to make sure that they are all performing as efficient as possible.
At the end of the contract we would like our servers to be in a position that they can be run and maintained with minimal effort from our internal team or handed off to a hosting company that will deal with the day-to-day management of them.

Think of this position as "Home Make-Over". The only difference is we're making over our server and sadly there will be no TV show based on your success :(

You're the expert, our servers need the make-over, work your magic.

The services / packages currently running on these servers include:

• Apache (1.3)
• MySQL
• Perl
• PHP
• ImageMagick
• Sendmail
• SSH
• FTP Accounts
• Webmin
• SpamAssassin

Responsibilities:

• We require someone to come in and perform a complete inventory of what services are running on which boxes and their efficiency.
• Technical team members will be available to discuss the current operating proceedures, requirements and desired functionality of each box.
• Following the initial audit we would expect you to suggest and implement a plan of action to that will:
• Ensure that security protocols are up-to-date.
• Increase the efficiency and redundancy in the network.
• Decrease the mangement & maintenance time/effort required to keep the boxes running
• Implement any additional commercial (or open source) packages that will make server maintenance, monitoring, account creation, etc, simpler and easier.
• Additional experience with SSL certificates, CVS would also be beneficial.

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