Working with Rootroute

No full-time position at present.
However Certain projects could use contract work.

Requirements

• Fluent english.
• Familiar with web hosting environment.
• Confortable with using email as a major work interaction.
• Confortable talking on the phone with co-workers and customers.
• Confortable to spend time on the shell/xterm.
• Fluent with at least 2 or 3 programming languages from either: C, shell, perl, ruby, python, php.
• User-Friendly.

Some technical skills Rootroute can use:

• Basic networking: HTTP, ICMP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, DNS, FTP, SSH.
• Other networking: SSL/TLS, BGP4, IPv6, SSL/TLS, Packet Filter, IPSec, tunneling.
• Helping customers: CGI, apache mod_(perl|python|ruby|php), Mason.
• Helping customers: HTML and web publishing/uploading/downloading.
• Software: OpenBSD, postfix, apache 1&2, djbdns, mailman, qmail.
• Any anti-email-abuse sub-systems, such as spamassassin, amavis, procmail.
• Familiarity with Makefile/autoconf, porting compiled software, and installation issues.
• Perl and shell scripting for sysadmin.
• Monitoring software, such as Nagios, mailgraph, MRTG, RDDTools.
• Familiarity with NOC and Data center environments, or in the ISP/Colocation/IX/Telco industries.
• You use security software and can write scripts to detects undesirable system or network usages.
• BSD kernel programming, OS Stability.
• Standard business skills. Organised, and direct in communication.
• Customers are from 20+ countries, so a flexible reading/hearing is sometimes needed. Being Bilingual is an advantage, particularly chinese, japanese, french, german.
• Server hardware maintainance.
• If you have or have been a customer, or if you have worked for a RootR.net's customer, it is an advantage.
• You can write a FAQ, or an intruction sheet.
• You can translate technical jargon to end-user english.
• You can translate end-user english to time-aware technical necessities.

Notes:

• If not living in San-Jose, you must have some experience in remote-working, strongly self-disciplined, and have at least your own, quiet room where you work from. Rootroute reimburse the international phone bills of contract workers.
• Rootroute customers tend to be more "technical" than the usual web hosting ISPs, due to the variety of offerings.

Contacting Rootroute for work hires:

Email jobs@rootr.net, in plain text:

1. The first part should be a descriptive introduction to yourself, contains what you look for in your expectations, and the competences you think rootr.net could use. 10 to 30 lines max.
2. The second part a full resume in plain ascii text, from 50 to 200 lines. We can read other formats, but they are not accepted.
3. Also include: Full name, Location, Nationality. Do not send us email if you don't believe Rootroute is a fair company.

Resumes are marked as outdated after 6 months.

For contracts involving scripting, 1 or 2 short scripts demonstrating command of a programming language. We don't need complex or brain-storming scripts, just basic, working things. If you participate in open-source projects, send the project url, and source downloads url.