Web system administrator, Rails, MySQL,

We are seeking a Web system administrator and developer to help build and manage sites for Assembla, and for clients that are launching new Web and cloud-based products. We are looking for a serious engineer to join a team that does both product development, and production server administration. We have colleagues working in Europe, North America, and Hawaii, and we are now looking for someone an Asian time zone (for example Japan, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia).[login to view URL] This job offers the ability to work with many highly skilled administrators and developers from around the world from the comfort of your home or office. In addition to working on a highly skilled team, the team works with cutting edge technologies that will challenge any developer or administrator to further their skill-set and knowledge base. Furthermore, since each team is small, your input will be highly valuable and encouraged with daily discussions to present any issues or ideas. The successful candidate can install, update, and maintain a system with MySQL, Apache, Nginx, haproxy, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Passenger, mail servers, cron daemons, runsv and monit, etc. The ideal candidate can also program in Ruby and and other scripting languages. * Experience configuring and administering linux systems * Programming and scripting skills * Understanding of security issues * Understanding of Web services and cloud / virtual servers along with standard physical servers * Experience administering servers remotely * Experience working on a remote based team * Ability to troubleshoot and solve complicated systems using standard open-source tools This is a telecommuting job, part time or full [login to view URL] can work at home or in a remote office with a computer, broadband networking, and skype phone/IM service. All successful candidates will begin with a paid, short, part-time or full-time trial period. If that goes well, we will make long-term, full-time contract. Visit [login to view URL] and click APPLY. Please post a resume, a desired hourly rate, and the numbers of hours that you have available per week. Candidates may be contacted for a brief review and then invited to take part in a work trial as described above. (Please apply as described; email applications will not be considered). NOTE this is a Freelancer: "fultime" position and does NOT use the Freelancer bid and response mechanisms. Please apply as described above.