The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program, founded in 1998 at Stanford University, is an international community initiative working to preserve today’s valuable web content for future readers and scholars. We work with approximately 200 libraries and 400 publishers, from all corners of the globe. The ACM award-winning LOCKSS technology is open source, peer-to-peer, decentralized digital preservation infrastructure [www.lockss.org].


Responsibilities
1. Administer (buy, install, configure, troubleshoot, backup, upgrade, document and manage) software and hardware components for LOCKSS Program and CLOCKSS Archive machines.
2.Monitor the LOCKSS Network and gather performance statistics using LOCKSS Program tools.
3.Build and test internally developed software.
4.Build and test the LOCKSS software distributions.
5.Support LOCKSS Alliance members to maintain their LOCKSS boxes.

Qualifications
Required
•BA/BS in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
•Three years related experience.
•Experience with source control systems such as CVS.
•Experience with Linux.
•Experience with network management tools, such as traceroute and ping.
•Experience with OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
•Ability to learn new systems and programming languages.
•High level of integrity and excellent judgment concerning privacy issues.
•Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
•Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Desired
•Experience with OpenSolaris.
•Experience with shell scripting, Perl, Python, etc.
•Experience using a high-level structured programming language, such as Java.

This is an hourly position, applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Please contact Vicky Reich, Director LOCKSS Program