Very rare position opening/creation for my group... If you have good load balancer experience, please apply...

The banding says it pays between 72k->83k, so it is considered a mid-level staff position.
If you have questions, send them to me in PM.

Minimum Education and Experience:
The specialist band requires a foundation of knowledge and skills in area of specialization generally obtained from graduating from a four-year college or university with a major in electronics, telecommunications, engineering, or a closely related field and three years of experience in network design, analysis, or management.
Experience in the field of work related to the position's role may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
PLEASE NOTE: All IT positions have moved to a new Career Banding compensation program. For additional information, please refer to our website at http://hr.unc.edu/Data/SPA/paysystems/careerbanding/.
Specific competencies are required for the different banded levels and roles. This position is being recruited for at the Journey Competency Level under this Career Banding program. The hiring range for this level is $72,326-$83,634.

Preferred Qualifications:
This individual will perform ongoing enterprise network/application load balancer planning, maintenance, and high-level troubleshooting as well as network system administration. Major work includes enterprise needs assessment, design, implementation, management, documentation, and continual enhancement of centralized network/application load balancing architecture. Work includes optimizing performance, troubleshooting problems, and analyzing usage and load issues. The ideal candidate is self-motivated with excellent customer service skills, and has experience with load balancer systems, like NetScaler, F5, or Alteon, and consequent support for SSL acceleration, SSL offloading, end-to-end encryption, state (cookies), NAT, and session persistence. The applicant should be familiar with relevant protocols of HTTP, FTP, SFTP, LDAP, SLDAP, SSL, SNMP, SSH, and RTSP. Exposure to routing and switching technologies, large enterprise networks, SNMP, troubleshooting load balancer candidate applications like Apache and tomcat, and a modern programming language is helpful.

8/8/2007 10:16:02 AM

that's good money

8/8/2007 1:43:04 PM

MAN FUCK UNC GODDAM TARHOLES I WOULDNT WORK THERE IF YOU DURKA DURKA DURKA DURKA

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8/8/2007 3:46:35 PM

I'm guessing the fact that I have no clue what load balancing is excludes me from applying...

8/13/2007 2:02:31 PM

^.

8/13/2007 2:55:13 PM

Quote :

"I'm guessing the fact that I have no clue what load balancing is excludes me from applying"

not necessarily.

if you can juggle, hacky-sack, or do some old school break dancing, these places will generally train you. Just look sharp and act like you have a clue -- the money is awesome, and the chicks are just freakin' INSANE.

8/13/2007 11:07:31 PM

Load balancing is done by setting up a clustered environment to balance traffic between servers and to present a highly available solution so that there is less instance where no service will be accessible.

A virtual ip (VIP) can be set up a couple ways, most of the time they are set to default to the primary server and only switch to the secondary server when there is no response. They can also be set up to round-robin, that is move between servers each time the VIP is hit with a request.

8/13/2007 11:43:43 PM

^ tmi

8/13/2007 11:48:42 PM

^^ theres always gotta be one of you guys, doesn't there?



let me go see if i have a cookie or a biscuit or something for you.

8/14/2007 1:45:04 PM

^ before you start complaining about other people's posts, you might want to take a look at your posts so far in this thread. All i see is mindless chit-chat-like thread crapping.

8/14/2007 3:39:55 PM

^^ WTF???

All Wadhead1 did was explain it nicely and professionally for people who don't what it is, WITHOUT calling people ignorant or asking them to google it etc etc etc.

And you insult and chastise someone for being knowledgeable and RESPECTFUL???

I don't get this. Really, I am baffled. At least, if he had asked people to google it, I would sort of understand your reaction and the "one of you guys" snide remark.

What did you mean by "one of you guys"???? What, you want to call him a nerd or a geek??? Go ahead, if that would make you feel better and/or superior. But you studied EE, so what gives?

As BobbyDigital said, look at your posts in here first.

As soon as you made your 1st and 2nd posts in this thread, it is US who should (RIGHTFULLY) have said "theres always gotta be one of you guys, doesn't there?" to you, meaning, there's always gotta be someone crapping up serious threads in a [supposed to be] serious section of TWW.

I don't know what has happened to you.

Just a little while ago, you called me out because I mildly chided a TEACHER for not knowing the difference between PRINCIPAL and PRINCIPLE. And you were there ready to pounce on me, and you did.

BUT, you correct spelling mistakes as well, in TSB for sure, and I almost recall, in other sections as well.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??? Wife witholding sex from you??? You have just been rolling your eyes and belittling people all the time for the past few weeks. But more than that, you do the same damn things that you roll your eyes at and curse others for.

DOES NOT COMPUTE.


[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 4:26 PM. Reason : SHOULD I USE A ROLLY EYES SMILEY???????????????????]

8/14/2007 4:05:29 PM

look, see. ... you people apparently don't understand:

it's funny when i do it, but it's not funny when you do.

okay?

Quote :

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??? Wife witholding sex from you?"

well, yes in fact she is. but i don't see what this has to do with --

oh, wait ...




[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 4:47 PM. Reason : ]

8/14/2007 4:38:46 PM

I have a Masters in a total unrelated field... does that work?


well, I do a lot with traffic... just not ummmm computer traffic


cant be all that different

[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 5:28 PM. Reason : d]

8/14/2007 5:27:21 PM

If only it weren't IT

8/14/2007 9:03:38 PM

We arent looking to train anyone. This is a new position in which we expect someone to know their shit from day 1, and recommend solutions based on good experience. Great organization to work for. I hope someone that saw this has the experience and has applied. If you dont meet the requirements for the position, human resources automatically dumps the application, and it doesnt get forwarded on.

8/14/2007 11:03:28 PM

Sorry to offend you with my post joe_schmoe, I was actually just happy to see that I knew what IT people are talking about since I'm a Business Consultant.

8/14/2007 11:04:32 PM

^ i truly cant recall the last time i was offended by a post on TWW.

maybe back in '03 for something or other, but i've forgotten what it was now

8/14/2007 11:43:45 PM

CarZin - you have PM

8/16/2007 8:02:16 AM

how about a job at UNC where i can actually contribute.

load balancing = over my head. i aint gonna lie.

8/16/2007 9:29:57 AM

That's because you're always on your knees.

8/23/2007 2:01:25 PM