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Job Description and Qualifications
Title: Web Server Specialist
Location: San Diego, California
Background:
- Our first web site, www.catholic.com, is now one of the top 10 Catholic web sites in the world.
- Our community site, forums.catholic.com, is the largest Catholic community site on the web.
- We host podcasts, audio/video libraries, interactive web applications, e-commerce, and more.
- We currently serve over 1 million visitors per month with data transfer in excess of one terabyte/month.
- We are in the process of significantly expanding our web presence this year. This includes the addition of many new web features, a dozen public/private web sites, and related infrastructure.
- As part of our web team, you can help Catholic Answers reach millions of people with the Good News of Jesus Christ as established and preserved in the Catholic faith.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple database, http, ftp, and mail servers
- Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade server software
- Install and configure off-the-shelf applications
- Oversee security issues and backup plans
- Support and maintain legacy platforms
- Acquire new platforms as needed
- Develop and refine support team escalation procedures
- Work towards platform hardware/software standardization
- Bridge web and inhouse hardware.
- Report on current and projected status of all platforms
- Interact with in-house staff and management as well as outside consultants, vendors, and support teams.
- Participate in long-term strategic decision-making regarding web activities.
Technical Experience:
- Significant experience managing web servers, ftp servers, mail servers. name servers
- Primary experience with Microsoft WinServer 2003 greatly preferred
- Significant experience with IIS (preferred) or alternatively Apache; key protocols (ftp, smtp; rdp, http; https; tcp/ip; etc.); remote hardware administration (stats; backup; real-time monitoring); chron jobs; mime types (varied); DNS; etc.
- Experience with server performance issues, including load splitting/balancing, performance tuning, SCSI/RAID/SATA, and network connectivity.
- Knowledge of security issues, web administration, parallel and mirror sites; user permissioning schemes all in a Microsoft server environment preferred.
- Familiarity with database (MySQL) servers, languages (PHP; VB)
- 2+ years working professionally in a comparable position and/or significant record of related academic accomplishment.
General Qualifications:
- A deep love for the Catholic faith and fidelity to the Magisterial teaching of the Church.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Superior attention to details
To be considered, please send your resume to: techadmin at catholic dot com
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