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When people ask you what you do for a living, do you answer "geek"? While shopping for a new car, is your primary criteria "good, fast, cheap... pick two"? Did you get goosebumps the first time you played with VMware's virtual switching/VLAN support? If so, you might be a perfect fit for our team.

OmniTI is looking for someone with real UNIX chops. We have a passion for what we do and it shows. A typical day in the Ops team is a heaping pile of scalability, smothered with resiliency, and a smattering of optimization. We eat and drink Open Source. We poop cold steel. You will be tempered, and you'll love every minute of it. If this sounds like your sort of thing, shoot me a line so we can talk.

P.S. We're the place your mom warned you about.

Todd Hoff over at High Scalability takes a look at Reconnoiter. He went through the [currently] arduous task of installing and configuring it manually; setting up checks can be a hairy experience. But the end result seems to justify the initial pain. It's a very exciting (and useful) application that will only get better as the #noit devs continue to hack on it.

As an Ops guy over at OmniTI, I've been fortunate to watch Reconnoiter's incubation process. Theo Schlossnagle is probably one of the smartest guys in this industry and he gets scalability issues. We've batted around ideas about network trend and analysis tools before (e.g. NFDB) so naturally I'm anxious to see where Noit takes us.