Web Infrastructure and Cloud Developer | Acquia

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Help Acquia hire more rock stars and get a bonus!
Would you like an extra $2,500 in your pocket? We want you to help! At Acquia, we know that the best people are referred by our trusted networks. Refer a friend to join our team and you could collect a $2,500 bounty! Here are the details:

1. Get your mate's information to us between August 1 and August 31, 2010
2. Email the awesome resume to careers@acquia.com with "Friends of Acquia Referral" in the subject line, don't forget to include your contact details as well
3. Your bounty will be received after your mate has been working with Acquia for 30 days as a full-time team member

Drupal rules ... and Acquia rocks!

At Acquia we are always looking for the best of the best. We look for people that are passionate, intelligent, full of integrity, and are super stars (or future super stars!)

We are an open source company that values community, free speech (and beer) and technical software innovation that you can't find in other companies. We're a fast growing, hot startup company that wants to help make Drupal the world dominant Social Publishing platform. We are always searching for Software engineers, support and professional services consultants, and sales and marketing stars. Join us as we help change the way people think about Social Software. All of our positions are located in Woburn, Ma.

Web Infrastructure and Cloud Developer

At Acquia, we are obsessive about hosting uptime and scalability. We are seeking an exceptional web infrastructure engineer and cloud guru who shares this obsession to help us deliver our best-in-class web hosting services. Acquia customers look to us to deliver reliable performance and features that "wow" end users. You will work with a small team of exceptional systems engineers to design and implement our cloud-based, scalable hosting infrastructure using the latest technologies. You will develop the software tools and systems necessary to reliably deploy, maintain, monitor, and support hosting environments for thousands of enterprise customers. In our fast-paced environment, you'll leverage your web, database, OS and networking knowledge to make sound engineering judgments and to create novel solutions to tough technical problems.
Essential Skills and Characteristics

* 3+ years experience in Linux systems engineering and software development
* Aptitude to work in object oriented scripting languages such as ruby, php, python, perl
* Ability to work within all layers of the hosting stack including load balancing, web servers, database, reliable file systems, and networking
* Aptitude for web server configuration (especially Apache)
* Abilities in OS administration and installer technologies
* Knowledge of networking including TCP/IP, HTTP, and load balancing
* Familiarity with source control systems and branching methodologies (Subversion experience is a plus)
* Comfortable creating and extending makefiles
* Excellent organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written
* BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience