Requisition ID 2000BR
Position Title Sr. Systems Administrator - Servers
Job Family Computer Operations
Job Location TN-Knoxville
Business Unit FAT-FARG-First American Residential Group
Req Type Exempt
Employment Category Fulltime-Regular
Job Description First American MLS Solutions, a division of The First American Family of Companies, is the nation’s leader in the development of Web-based MLS systems for the Real Estate Industry, offering a full line of technology products and support services. First American MLS Solutions has an immediate opening for a Senior Systems Administrator - Servers reporting to our Knoxville, TN location. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

• Responsible for supporting mission-critical business systems and servers for applications and databases along with first level technical system support for multiple diverse customers.
• System Support responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnose and resolve complex technical issues for First American MLS Solutions product suite and underlying databases, call tracking, analyze and implement system change requests and enhancements, develop change specifications and service quotations, and assist in customer communication.
• Performs capacity planning and identifies capacity shortages.
• Implementations responsibilities include analyze and define business and functional requirements, assess requirements against technology, identify business rules, data elements and data definitions to support system, configure software to implement customer requirements.
• Identify server system performance issues, to include CPU utilization, disk utilization, kernel/registry tuning, and memory requirements.
• Responsible for assisting in monitoring hardware including performance, service interruptions and back-up processes.
• Diagnoses and resolves unique and complex systems problems. Experienced in disaster recovery process.
• Some travel required.
Job Qualifications - Excellent interpersonal, analytical, business and technical judgment, negotiation, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent technical skills required including demonstrated expertise with MS Windows Server 2003 and MS SQL Server.
- In depth knowledge of IIS setup and configuration.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SQL query language, data manipulation and data load concepts
- Experience with web based applications preferred.
- Technical project management skills. This position requires excellent leadership, planning and organization skills and flexibility.
- Ability to work in fast paced environment essential
- Ability to work with stakeholders across technical and business areas.
- Knowledge of real estate property information systems or working knowledge of real estate industry is a plus.
- This job requires 24x7 on call availability.
% of Travel Required <10%

That's not a sysadmin job.

Real sysadmins use unix. (including, of course, my favorite unix - Mac OS X)

That's a windoze monkey job.

my apologies

for the 95%+ of you that use windows based systems, this is for you - but we do have a position for a Mac based QA person, currently that position is filled but if it becomes available i will post it here also - would be part time (less than 5 hours per week) but the pay and benefits are pretty good and it is conveniently located in west knoxville

tat2jay wrote:my apologies

for the 95%+ of you that use windows based systems, this is for you - but we do have a position for a Mac based QA person, currently that position is filled but if it becomes available i will post it here also - would be part time (less than 5 hours per week) but the pay and benefits are pretty good and it is conveniently located in west knoxville

It's actually about 85% of you that use windoze - if you're counting installed base. Macs last longer.

OS Platform Statistics

Current trend is that Windows XP is growing fast. The windows family counts for about 90%:
January 2006
WinXP - 72.3%
W2000 - 13.1%
Win98 - 2.4%
WinNT - 0.3%
W2003 - 1.7
Linux - 3.3%
Mac - 3.5%

as per http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp


looks like the actual statistic is in the middle - around 90% -
so, meet ya half way?

tat2jay wrote:OS Platform Statistics

Current trend is that Windows XP is growing fast. The windows family counts for about 90%:
January 2006
WinXP - 72.3%
W2000 - 13.1%
Win98 - 2.4%
WinNT - 0.3%
W2003 - 1.7
Linux - 3.3%
Mac - 3.5%

as per http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

looks like the actual statistic is in the middle - around 90% -
so, meet ya half way?

Actual those are misleading stats. Those are the stats for w3schools.coms website visitors. They are not for actual OS usage
for instance here are some of the stats from my website http://www.boneslair.com so far for March:

Windows XP 71.1 %
Windows 98 0.9 %
Windows 2000 2.9 %
Mac OS X 21.3 %
Unknown 5 2.4 %
Linux 2 0.9 %

If you believed this as the world wide usage you would have to say that Mac OX holds 21.3% of the OS market, rather than the 3.5% that website Jay posted from sates.

These stats tell nothing more than what OS hit their website, not what total usage of OS anywhere else is. They pretty much even say so later in that page.

Statistics Are Often Misleading

You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading.

Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, other sites attract hobbyists using older low spec computers.

Also be aware that many stats may have an incomplete or faulty browser detection. It is quite common by many web stats report programs, not to detect new browsers like Opera and Netscape 6 or 7 from the web log.

(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures)

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I'm not jumping in this for the OS battle, I honestly don't really care who has the biggest usage. Rather this post is just a reminder to not always believe what you read, question what your told, and look at everything before you decide it's fact.
Note: all this goes 2x as true if it involves anything the goverment tells you.

also, don't forget that some of us use everything and anything they can get their grubby hands on.

if you look at your server logs, i'm just as likely to hit your site using freebsd or os x as i am <pick your favorite flavor of linux> or windows xp/2k - and sometimes multiple OS's, nearly simultaneously, from the same box, using qemu (or vmware, thanks to elasticwings' tip on the free server)

don't leave us OS whores in the lurch.

Well, if any real knowledgeable Mac guys are looking for an admin position, my workplace is looking for a Mac admin. Going to need somebody with real good OSX , Xserve, and Xraid experience. PM me if interested.

mac os for servers? does this exist?

I always saw mac as the pony tail, john lennon glasses wearing, art, cute, OS.

Something your mom or sister would use. Not a server. Too many good OS' to place mac on a box.

badluck wrote:mac os for servers? does this exist?

I always saw mac as the pony tail, john lennon glasses wearing, art, cute, OS.

Something your mom or sister would use. Not a server. Too many good OS' to place mac on a box.

osx is based on a bsd core. it even has /usr/ports.

coredump (my farm) ran on a mac for a very long time; the only reason i decided to move it back to a freebsd server was that the NIC on the x86 was faster. on the mac, uptime was simply phenomenal, and when you disable the osx gui - i.e., console only - things run really, really fast.

but that's to be expected, when running *bsd.