MakaluMedia Web Consultancy Opportunities

Dear List, MakaluMedia GmbH would like to inform you of two new space-industry related, full-time web development engineering positions in our Darmstadt, Germany location. The job descriptions and requirements are attached below. European citizens are preferred; however, new German labour laws allow us to also consider non-Europeans as well. If you are interested, please contact me immediately with a full CV (résumé) including salary requirements and availability details. If you are not interested, but know someone who may be, we offer a $1500 finder's fee if your proposed candidate is hired. Kind regards, Matt Henderson | matt@makalumedia.com | http://www.makalumedia.com Job Position MM0101 - Web Operations Engineer ============================================= Candidate Tasks --------------- The candidate shall work in one of our client's Operations Division as a member of the User Service team. He/she, as a minimum shall accomplish the following tasks: + Support content generation and publishing, performed by various in-house groups. Set up and maintain tools and environments in which content can be maintained, updated and added. Gathering and consolidation of user requirements as they originate within the organisation. Participation and support to project planning and co-ordination meetings. + Support to new Web applications development projects, whether carried out in-house or outside. Generation of specifications and requirements for new services. Implementation of small WWW applications. + Provision of second level support to the User Service Web applications. + Support to the installation, configuration, and day-to-day administration and maintenance and management of organisation's server platforms. The latter shall include: + usage and access monitoring and reporting; + performance optimisation; + fault identification and debugging; + user access administration. + Provision of system documentation, production of standards and templates. + Presentation, layout and design of the User Service Web services. Candidate Profile ----------------- The candidate shall have as a prerequisite: + A solid background in Web design and graphics tools and applications; + In-depth experience with Web publishing and content generation and management tools; + Knowledge of Web scripting languages (JavaScript, PERL) and CGI programming; + Large experience with Web server systems like Netscape Enterprise Server, and other Netscape server products, on UNIX platforms; + Good personal communication skills to interact with the groups/staff responsible for content generation. In addition, the following experience will be of advantage: + Knowledge of common office and graphics applications; + Experience with Windows-NT and integration of NT and UNIX environments; + General UNIX system experience. Job Position MM0102 - Web Maintenance & System Engineer ======================================================= Candidate Tasks --------------- The candidate, as a minimum shall accomplish the following tasks: --Routine web site operation and maintenance: + Day-to-day system operation, configuration and administration + System monitoring, performance monitoring, debugging and auditing, including generation of statistics and production of statistics reports + Generation and maintenance of web site tools and utilities, including custom developed applications + Act as webmaster/helpdesk of the organisations web site --Web site system upgrade and development: + Implementation of additional and upgrade of existing front- and back-end servers, e.g. http server, LDAP directory server, certificate server, database server, document and multimedia server + Analysis of performance, scalability and reliability demands caused by growing amounts of content and applications, and design and implementation of according solutions, e.g. load balancing, caching, etc. --Support to web content development and maintenance: + Definition, set-up and maintenance of content development environments for in-house content contributors + Definition, set-up and maintenance of web site navigation schemes and mechanisms + Definition, set-up and maintenance of content generation and publishing tools, templates and defaults + Definition, set-up and maintenance of procedures and in-house standards, related to web site content development and maintenance 3.4 Support to configuration control + Implement and administer configuration control tools and procedures covering the web site system and services (e.g. content) development and maintenance. Candidate Profile ----------------- In addition to having a university degree (or equivalent), the candiate shall have as a prerequisite: + A large experience of configuring, administering, monitoring, debugging, auditing, documenting and inventorying web server systems, in particular Netscape Enterprise/iPlanet Server on UNIX (HP-UX and Solaris) platforms; + Experience of analysis, design and implementation of web server platforms and systems to meet and evolve with services' and users¹ demands, as well as the corresponding tools and utilities (e.g. search engines). + Experience of acting as webmaster, providing user support, user administration, implementing user access control, etc. + In-depth experience with all aspects of web content generation, including content structuring and organisation, navigation, design, and presentation; + Knowledge of content authoring and publishing tools (e.g. NetObjects Authoring Server) and procedures; + Knowledge of web scripting languages (JavaScript, Perl) and CGI programming; + Knowledge of web systems content configuration management and control; + Good personal communication skills to interact within the other project team and with the organisations groups/staff responsible for content generation; Experience in one or more of the following will be considered an additional advantage: + Experience of web application programming languages and environments, e.g.. server-side JavaScript, Java. + Experience of operating and administering other Netscape Server, apart from Enterprise Server, in particular the Directory and Certificate Server, as well as database servers, in particular Oracle; + Users experience with a Windows NT 4/Novell IntraNetware environment and knowledge of common office applications, in particular the MS-Office suite of applications. + Knowledge of Internet technical and organisational aspects, internetworking concepts and architectures, "classical" Internet applications (e.g. FTP, SMTP, NNTP); + General UNIX system administration experience.