Linux Position at my company

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 07:10:15PM -0400, John Miles wrote:
> Just an FYI - we have just posted a Linux Administrator position on
> Monster.ca today.
> 
> http://jobview.monster.ca/IS-Systems-Administrator-Job-Cambridget-ON-CA-99673414.aspx
> 
> Essentially you'd be managing Intrusion Detection and Logging sensors
> running on a Ubuntu platform around the globe.
> 
> This involves every possible part of Linux and Network administration you
> could think of.
> This is very bleeding edge; we presently have 2 PHD's on the development
> team.
> You would be learning to use argus, tcpdump, snort, etc. That is just the
> maintenance and Sysadmin tasks related to the IDS systems. Our
> infrastructure and management need to expand, so it is almost a carte
> blanche for any cool stuff you'd like to run with.
> 
> These are examples of infrastructure things I'm presently working on that
> you'd be involved in:
> *monitoring using Zenoss
> *setup puppet, chef or cfengine
> *Nagios monitoring expansion, with a focus on ease of administration by
> using NConf
> *enhance our deployment structure by setting up something like FOG
> *expand virtualization in our testing and development environment
> *there are piles and piles of things to be done
> 
> We are located in Cambridge Ontario.
> 
> You can email me if you have questions at all.

I keep wondering if I am the only person that doesn't believe in IDS as
a useful concept. :)

As far as I see it, if you can detect something is bad, then you could
have blocked it from ever being allowed in by the firewall in the
first place.

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