[TriLUG] Fw: Inquiry: Consulting Engagement for LAMP System Admin

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Fellow LAMP sysadmins,

Please see below for a job opportunity. Contact Vivian directly and off-list. The job can be done remotely, so location should not be an issue.  

Cheers,
--  
Cristóbal Palmer
cmpalmer.org


Forwarded message:

> From: Vivian Goldblatt <vgoldblatt at yahoo.com>
> To: cmp at cmpalmer.org <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:46:19 PM
> Subject: Inquiry: Consulting Engagement for LAMP System Admin
>  
> Hello,
>  
> I got your contact information from [redacted] as a System Admin who is very familiar with LAMP. I'm contacting you to inquire whether you have the time presently, or know someone who has the time, to support a start-up dating website.
>  
> Here's the scope of services:
>  
> 2.1 - Scale
> · Review Company’s existing package to see if this will scale with Company’s short-term growth projections.
> · Ensure VM sessions/VNCs are capable of easily scaling and handling short-term storage and bandwidth requirements.
> · Recommend additional server space as needed.
> · Allocate additional server space as needed.
>  
> 2.2 - System Performance
> · Create and/or review an appropriate daily/weekly/monthly site maintenance/upgrade schedule  
> · Analyze system performance to ensure system is obtaining best performance from hardware and software
> · Hinder and reduce any system failure
> · Load balancing
> · Find and remove performance bottlenecks
>  
> 2.3 - Security
> · Review Company’s existing security configuration for vulnerabilities and known exploits.  
> · Propose security upgrades and network/firewall reconfiguration to meet network/database security standards and practices.
> · Implement and maintain security measures, including alerts, to prevent viruses, cracks and hacks.  
>  
> 2.4 - Backup
> · Develop and/or review an appropriate daily/weekly/monthly backup plan using existing resources or a third-party solution.
> · Back up the system according to the backup plan.
> · Data replication to ensure data, including user data such as blogs, photographs and videos, does not get lost and can be promptly recovered.
>  
> 2.5 - Restore / Recover
> · Develop and/or review an appropriate daily/weekly/monthly restore / recover plan
> · Restore the system according to the restore / recover plan
>  
> Acknowledgement and response time of 30 minutes or less for any outages affecting Company’s production system (“SLA”).
>  
>  
> · Recover data, including user data such as blogs, photographs and videos in the event of data loss.
>  
> 2.6 - Upgrades
> · Recommend upgrades to plug ins as needed
> · Implement upgrades to plug ins as needed
> · Recommend upgrades to main website software as needed
> · Implement upgrades to main website software as needed
> · Recommend upgrades to website components as needed
> · Implement upgrades to website components as needed
>  
> 2.7 - Project Management and Miscellaneous
> · Create and/or review Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for change management, source control, and deployment/rollback procedures during scheduled maintenance and outage windows.  
> · Associated diagnostics, troubleshooting, QA.
> · Manage website configuration through Cpanel.
> · Act as a technical contact with the system’s host (currently 1and1.com (http://1and1.com)).
> · Weekly summary of projects, milestones, and progress in written form due by Consultant’s local close of business (5 PM) time.
> · Daily actions and issues items list updated on an ad-hoc basis in written form.
> · Interactively communicate any issues, delays and/or problems to Company in written form and telephone Company to alert of such whenever issues, delays and/or problems arise.
>  
> Kind regards,
> Vivian B. Goldblatt
>