“There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know”
- 解决用户知道他们知道的问题。有许多问题企业用户自己知道怎样解决,自己能发现瓶颈在什么地方,但是因为他们要是自己解决这些系统管理问题就会增加企业管理成本支出,影响他们把主要资源用于核心业务,这种情况下把这些他们知道的事情交付给管理服务商(Managed Service Provider)派来的系统管理员来做是个好主意。
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解决用户知道自己不知道的问题。例如,用户要部署ERP管理企业各种资源但是不知道开源软件世界里有众多免费和低成本的选择;企业不可能雇佣所有开发和管理维护人员,他们知道公司资源不足以部署数据中心。
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解决用户不知道自己不知道的问题。例如,许多企业还不知道他们对云计算和数据中心还闻所未闻,革命性的技术进步给社会生活的改观、革命性的商务模式和商业业态都属于不知道自己不知道的事情。系统管理员应该把最新的技术进步以最快的速度集成到管理服务中。
- Google公司的系统管理员Tom Limoncelli,他也是技术作家,在本周澳大利亚的Linux大会上说:“在虚拟化和云计算环境下系统管理员的职能和要求都改变了”
- O'Reilly说:“所有云需要云管理员”
- Canonical:Technical support in cloud,Ubuntu和Eucalyptus。云技术支持,Ubuntu把混合云平台Eucalyptus集成在最新的发行版10.4里面。
Key responsibilities
? Support and maintenance of 1600+ servers on the cloud
? Complete tasks efficiently
? Sharing your knowledge and experience with the team
? Continuously developing your skills in new technology
? Following release schedule and protocol
? After hours support
? Travel
Qualifications Requirements
? Lots of experience setting up and running Linux servers in a production environment.
? Experience tweaking Apache, PHP, and MySQL for performance.
? Experience running MySQL in a clustered configuration.
? Experience with virtualisation (VMWare and Xen) and cloud architecture (Amazon‘s EC2 and S3) is a plus, but not mandatory (provided you’re excited to learn).
? Great work ethic. Must thrive in a fast-placed, creative team environment.
? The occasional crazy idea.
? It goes without saying you require excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team.
? Good command of written and spoken English
加拿大公司的招聘广告(2010年1月7日):
Only Canadian Residents.
- Location: Canada
- Compensation: $75 per hour #报酬每小时75美元
- Telecommuting is ok.
- This is a part-time job. #部分时间工作
- This is a contract job.
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
- 系统管理员是大将之才
- 系统管理员的必备宝典
- 三军恃动:收集信息(Collecting Information)
- 运用之妙:操作数据(Manipulating Data)
- 九天九地:优化控制(Optimizing Control)
- 决胜之道:客户服务(Customer Services)