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Public Interactive® is the leading integrated Application Service Provider (ASP) of on-line collaborative tools, community engagement technologies, content syndication services and member and audience relationship management systems for the public broadcasting industry.

Leveraging the on-air reach and content-focused education and information activities of community-based public radio and television stations, Public Interactive provides a modular series of advanced, interactive plug-and-play components, which enable stations to cost-effectively build and support their on-line initiatives.

As a station-centric and station-supported network, Public Interactive is designed to efficiently serve an extensive and rapidly-expanding network of public broadcasting stations -- a cooperative and supportive network purposely designed with a distinct and advantageous value proposition for member stations.

Employment: Infrastructure Engineer

Public Interactive (PI), a subsidiary of Public Radio International, is public broadcasting's leading integrated application service provider, creating and operating Web tools and applications serving over 160 affiliates that collectively operate over 300 public radio and television stations nationwide. Programs such as PRI's "The World" and "Car Talk" depend on Public Interactive's technology and people.

We have an immediate opening for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Operations team. This team is responsible for maintaining, supporting and expanding our predominantly open source infrastructure and for designing, testing and building the next generation of infrastructure platform.

The successful candidate will have 2-4 years of technical experience in Linux, SQL, TCP/IP and Object-oriented programming foundations; troubleshooting complex problems in a production environment; 1-2 years of experience in a technical role as a contributing team member, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.

Experience in the following are as is a plus, but not required:

Building and supporting the server infrastructure around J2EE applications.
Oracle 10g and MySQL experience.
Unix/Linux (Debian and SUSE preferred) server management and administration (configuration, maintenance, monitoring, support, etc).
Firewalls, Load Balancing, NFS, ssh, RAID.
Apache 2.x, Tomcat 5.x configuration, tuning and support.
Security administration and capacity management.
Perl & Shell scripting.

As the next member of the PI team you must be willing to participate in various support roles (some nights & weekends). The ideal candidate must also have timely and reliable transportation to travel to our hosting facilities currently located in and around Somerville.

Public Interactive offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including health, dental and life insurance along with a retirement plan. Send resume, letter of interest and salary requirements to jobs at publicinteractive.com.

Public Interactive embraces diversity and is an equal opportunity employer!

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