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FIG Job Description: sysadmin-web
Members of sysadmin-web have a wide range of skills and potential tasks, generally split between system / infrastructure and development / app modification. Members of sysadmin-web will be tasked with maintaining the end to end web environment. Members of sysadmin-web are responsible for the web and application servers, proxy servers and load balancers. Members of sysadmin-web may be called on to fix and modify content, create new web sites and maintain web applications.
Level of commitment
Average 4 hours per week
Expected duties
- Troubleshoot caching issues with web services
- Creating, monitoring and troubleshooting load balancer pools
- Creating new top level Fedora Project and Hosted web sites
- Maintain DNS infrastructure for fedoraproject.org
- Maintain and trouble shoot reverse proxy configurations
Required skills
- Experience with Apache
- Experience with Python
- Experience with varnish
- Experience in reverse proxy load balanced configurations
- Experience managing, deploying or maintaining at least one of the tools in current use
- Expert level differentiation between humor and reality (even when humour is spelled with too many u's)
- Experience with mid-level system administration tasks and troubleshooting (user / filesystem permissions, remote connectivity, vhost configuration)
Suggested skills
- Experience with TurboGears
- Experience with SQLAlchemy
- Experience with haproxy and memcached
- Experience with HTML, CSS
- Experience with BIND
Current tools
Adding tools
Names should be links to Fedora tool URL and a link to the upstream project documentation should also be included.
Names should be links to Fedora tool URL and a link to the upstream project documentation should also be included.