About Us:

Delivery Agent, Inc. (www.deliveryagent.com) is the leader in shopping-enabled programming and content monetization for more than 125 entertainment properties from major media companies such as ABC, CBS, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, MTV Networks, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Boston Celtics, UFC, and The Weinstein Company. Delivery Agent created the market for shopping-enabled programming by redefining how products related to entertainment are cataloged, merchandised and sold online. Since its inception in 2001, Delivery Agent has deployed its comprehensive technology platform, including e-commerce applications, video and mobile products, and interactive advertising solutions to create profitable connections among entertainment content, consumers and brands. To date, the company has developed a network of more than 90 distinct branded shopping sites for its partners and its own SeenON!® (www.SeenON.com), the definitive online shopping destination for products seen on screen.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Director of IT, your main responsibility will be to maintain, administer and upgrade the Delivery Agent office network Windows, Solaris, and Linux systems. The ideal candidate will have experience with all or many of the following:

  • 5-7 years Windows server administration (Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003)
  • 5-7 years email server administration (Exchange 2003)
  • Ongoing Antivirus measures
  • Account management and group policy management
  • Office hardware setup in conjunction with Desktop staff (printers, FAX, file servers)
  • Office solution research and acquisition (recommendation and purchasing)
  • Windows desktop administration (Windows XP Pro)

Your secondary role will be providing support in a backup capacity to our rapidly expanding ecommerce systems. You will be the secondary (and occasionally primary) 24/7 response person. The ideal candidate will have experience with all or most of the following:

• 4-6 years UNIX administration (Solaris 10, CentOS 5 Linux)
• Medium-scale distributed eCommerce system administration in LAMP/SAMP environment (Linux/Solaris, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Hardware configuration, installation and maintenance (Sun, Dell, Cisco, F5, load balancers, routers, switches)
• Familiarity with cabling and stacking rack-mounted servers
• Open source component configuration (Apache, VSFTPD, etc), package management, compiling and maintenance
• Scripting of automated processes (any scripting language, preferably bash)
• Internet applications and protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, SMTP, IMAPS, SSH, rsync)
• OS & network security (ACLs, packet filters, firewalls, system hardening, intrusion detection)
• Network design, debugging tools and procedures, monitoring (hardware and software)
• Must be able to lift over 40 lb

Sound interesting? Got what we're looking for? Then we want to get to know you better and hear about why you are the sys admin superhero we are looking for. (Think of this as a SAGE Complex site with a Level 3 skillset.)

To apply for the position please answer all of the following questions
in your cover letter.

1. What is your experience with Open Source software? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
2. Tell us about your experience working in 24/7 collocation and system environments versus office network environments.
3. Describe what you think is the most important factor in maintaining network and system security.
4. What is your favorite OS from a technical standpoint, and why?