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<title>FSFE is looking for a systems administrator and
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architect</title>
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<h1>FSFE is looking for a systems administrator and
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architect</h1>
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<p>
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<strong>Please note that this position is no longer open for
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applications.</strong><br />
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The Free Software Foundation Europe was
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founded in 2001 and has gone through a tremendous growth
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since then, both in the number of volunteers and staff, and
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also in the complexity of our technical infrastructure and
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the number of services we run and offer for both internal and
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external use. We're currently looking for a system
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administrator and architect that, for a limited time, can
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support us in our work to migrate our services to a new
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infrastructure.</p>
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<p>The migration project will move our services to a new
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infrastructure and revise the services we currently offer.
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The goal of the project is to make the infrastructure more
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coherent, with less dependencies, and with a separation of
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services that make it easier for volunteers to manage and
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help the organisation manage individual services in the long
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term.</p>
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<h2>Who we're looking for</h2>
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<p>We're looking for a senior system administrator or systems
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architect that can work in close coordination with our
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existing system administrators, staff and volunteers, to
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support our migration project through all of its stages,
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starting with the archaeological challenge of creating a high
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level overview of our services and their dependencies, and
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ending with the migration of our core services. Key skills
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will include technical documentation, virtualization
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environments, MTAs (Postfix), database servers and web
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services.</p>
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<h2>What we need to do</h2>
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<p>The person we're looking with will be tasked with the
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following. Please note that the first steps are more detailed
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than the latter steps, and we'll work together to
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continuously revise this plan as we go. All of this will also
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involve coordination with others, and a lot of information,
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especially for the first parts, can be gotten from existing
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documentation or from other system administrators.</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Create a high level service documentation, with a focus
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on (for each service):
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<ol>
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<li>Authentication mechanisms</li>
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<li>Code base (custom work, patches, or off the shelf
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components)</li>
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<li>Interdependencies with other services</li>
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<li>Physical / virtual infrastructure location</li>
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<li>Usage (estimate usage from logs etc, as well as a
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brief synopsis of who the main users are:
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external, internal, etc)</li>
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</ol></li>
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<li>Additional documentation that may be needed for
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specific services (such as mail), the nature of which will
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need to be discussed and determined at a later time, when
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the first high level overview is complete.</li>
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<li>Analyse the current services and propose a new
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architecture, focusing on the services and the dependencies
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between them.</li>
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<li>Provide a migration plan that detail the steps needed
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to be taken in order to successfully migrate our existing
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services to the new architecture and infrastructure.</li>
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<li>Migrate, and support the migration, of core services to
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it, including shutting down and removing old services in an
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orderly fashion.</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>Location and travel</h2>
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<p>The FSFE system administrators work largely remotely, and
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most of the work can be done from anywhere in the world. It's
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beneficial for communication that the person helping us is
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roughly located in Europe, and one or two trips may be needed
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to meet with other system administrators and staff.</p>
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<h2>More information</h2>
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<p>If you think that you're the right person, know someone who
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is, or just want more information, you're more than welcome to
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reach out to FSFE's executive director
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Jonas Öberg, preferrably by email to
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<email mailto="yes">jonas@fsfe.org</email>.
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</p>
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