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[Ivan Kedrin]

The following is a job opening for PHP Developer / Linux Guru in NYC

A growing online Sports Social Network TAKKLE (www.takkle.com) is 
seeking a PHP Developer / Linux Guru to help build and scale the next 
generation of TAKKLE website.

DESCRIPTION
- Reporting to CTO, a PHP Developer / Linux Guru is expected to help 
develop and maintain the next generation of online sports social network.
- Deliver projects on time, error-free, and meeting design criteria. 
Ensure system coding is thoroughly tested, providing reliable operation.
- Respond appropriately to clients, both internal and external. Ensure 
that expectations of managers and developers are met for all projects.
- Ensure that customer facing applications are fully available and 
implemented on schedule and that solutions are scalable, reliable, and 
effective.
- Work with other colleagues to maintain defined standards, develop 
improvements to standard techniques such as documenting code, using 
company established guidelines, and sharing knowledge. Work with 
managers and developers to deliver defect free projects on schedule.
- Maintain established turn around time for project completion and 
implementation; respond to emergencies (including off-hours emergencies) 
in a timely and professional manner.
- Produce reliable, scalable, and effective solutions that anticipate 
future growth.

REQUIREMENTS
- 4+ years of PHP
- 6+ years of Linux (RedHat EL)
- 4+ years of MySQL. Optimization, fine-tuning, replication, 
multi-slave, multi-master environments, scalability
- 4+ years of Apache. Optimization, fine-tuning
- Solid understanding and experience with SDLC methodologies
- Solid understanding and working knowledge of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, 
JavaScript
- Solid understanding of security issues that pertain to web development
- Experience with structured code libraries, frameworks, open source 
projects
- Solid understanding and working knowledge of Subversion and/or CVS
- Hands-on experience/knowledge of DNS, BIND, tripwire, nfs, postfix, SSL
- Sound background in Computer Science
- Enthusiasm for coding
- Strong understanding of networking; understanding of how to isolate, 
diagnose, and resolve service delivery components (service delivery 
components include servers, networks, and applications); be familiar 
with the functionality, operating, and failure modes of key networking 
devices (routers, switches, bridges, firewalls, hardware load 
balancers); be able to identify networking as the potential cause of a 
service issue using server-resident tools to generate this data 
(tcpdump, ping, traceroute, etc.); familiarity in interpreting the 
output of these tools; familiarity with common network topologies, 
protocols, and tools; have some notion of common network security 
exploits -- and their remedies; understanding of troubleshooting at the 
packet level
- Proven ability managing complex, multi-platform projects in 
high-pressure environments
- shell scripting

PLUSES
- MSSQL
- Interest in sports
- Experience with building social networks
- Experience building high performance, fully redundant clusters
- Experience with Load balancers, firewalls, routers, switches, Dell 
servers, RAID, SANs, hardware diagnostics, failure, recovery
- Caching experience at all levels of n-tier applications and 
distributed caching (i.e. memcached)
- AJAX
- SEO
- Python, Ruby
- Flash/Action Scripting, Video streaming

LOCATION
New York City

This is an on-site (no telecommuting) contract to hire position.
Qualified candidates please email ivan at takkle.com with "PHP Developer / 
Linux Guru" in the subject line and the following:
1. PDF or text version of your resume
2. PHP code samples
3. Salary requirements

-- 
Ivan Kedrin
CTO
TAKKLE, Inc
http://takkle.com
cell 917.254.6510
home 212.942.3110