[ILUG] [OT, *speculative*] Linux+Windross Sys. Admin. job in Montpellier

[Brian Foster]

 the main IT / Sys. Admin. guy at the company I work
 for quit today, effective mid-January.  hence, I'm
 *guessing*, the company is (will be?) looking for a
 replacement.  it seems possible someone on this e-list
 may be interested in working in Montpellier (Southern
 France) .....

 I've no real idea of the requirements blah blah blah,
 but it would clearly cover the usual sort of duties
 for a farm of workstations and servers.  most of the
 workstations currently run some flavour of Windross,
 but there is a plan afoot to transition those of the
 developers to Linux, or more likely, VMware.

 the servers are a mixture of Windross and Linux.
 most of the h/w kit is Dell, of varying vintage,
 including some 64-bit kit (and lots of RAID).

 one obvious challenge is this is a dual-language site,
 both English and Français (English is required, but I'm
 not sure about the French for this role).  someone who
 is familiar with, or at least with the relevant locales,
 for any of the CJK languages is a bonus.  (and there are
 people over there, so there is a VPN(? something?) also.)

 the other challenge is I strongly suspect you'll find
 a mess.  I am unconvinced things are too rationally set
 up (e.g., the backups failed to adequately recover from
 a recent disc drive failure), and I know "the management"
 does not grok Linux and tends to a mistaken understanding
 of FLOSS.   and the IT, to-date, has very much been NIH;
 far too many of the internal tools and procedures are
 custom (read: crap), poorly documented, not really
 integrated with each other, and presume Windross is used.
 there are (stalled?) plans to fix some of that, and this
 role would be heavily involved.   ( however, the security
 just may be Ok, albeit a fresh audit/eyes wouldn't hurt. )

 if anyone's interested, drop me a line and I'll see if
 I can prise any information about the position out of
 the relevant people.  the last time I did that, it was
 like pulling alligator's teeth; in the end I did get a
 fuzzy copy of a hardcopy French-only job advertisement
 with a lot of tooth marks (after waiting several days).
 however, the trainee who thought it silly to circulate or
 publicise open reqs. has left, so maybe this time .....
 ( plus, of course, I don't actually know if there is an
  open req. yet or not .....! )

cheers!
	-blf-(clearly not in the business of advertising jobs)-
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