Need to hire an Operations Manager at WBR

Operations Manager – Technology Department

Warner Bros. Records

 

Who we are:

A company with a world class reputation that rests on its artist-friendly policies, long-range career development, and visionary approach to discovering and nurturing musical talent, Warner Bros. Records has, in 49 years since its inception, become the most successful record label in history.


Plus, we REALLY love technology and are the only major label with a dedicated, non-IT tech department. We love Solaris, Unix, Drupal, Rails, iPhones, Facebook, Apple products and random trivia about all of the above. We work with the best people in the business including Facebook, Apple, startups and more. We believe in transparency, open source and being a good partner with the technology community at large.

 

Who you are:

Reporting to the Operations Director, the Operations Manager is responsible for supporting the technical infrastructure, including hardware and software, of artist websites. Candidates should be able to collaborate and coordinate with team members, work well under pressing and changing deadlines, and have a special knack for problem-solving with a good sense of humor.

 

Responsibilities:

- Monitoring and maintaining web servers for Dev, QA, and Production environments

- Provisioning new development sites in a Drupal multisite setup

- Inspecting Drupal sites for technical QA before launching on production servers

- Migrating sites between dev and production environments

- Assisting internal and external developers with technical infrastructure related issues, being able to “jump in the code” when needed.

- Developing and maintaining tools to automate tedious procedures and/or to aggregate distributed data

- Documenting workflow, environment setup, and process and enforcing standards with external developers

- Researching and developing creative new tech projects (ie: chumby widgets, iphone apps, facebook apps, hacking emerging technologies and in general making mischief with technology)

 

Primary Qualifications:

- Unix/Solaris/Linux environment, Bash shell scripting a plus

- Apache 2 – setup and configuration, .htaccess overrides, mod_rewrite, DNS

- MySQL 5 – administration and optimization, phpMyAdmin

- PHP 5

- Drupal 5, 6 – multisite and multiserver setup with load balancer, NAS, RAID

- Subversion – repository setup and administration, merging/branching, roll backs

- XHTML/CSS/Javascript – semantic and valid markup, SEO-friendly, AJAX

- XML – web services including RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP

 

Additional Qualifications:

- Akamai – Content Delivery Network

- Facebook Platform – FBML, Facebook API

- Google Maps API, Google Analytics

- Flash/ActionScript 2.0, 3.0 – Flash remoting

- Photoshop, Fireworks

- Ruby on Rails

 

Email a cover letter, resume and links in the BODY OF THE E-MAIL to opsmanager [@] warnerbrosrecords.com

 

This job is based in Burbank, CA

We are an equal opportunity employer 

2007
10/23
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    • Bret
    • October 23rd, 2007

    Where is the job located?

  2. Good Evening;

    I am a full-service IT geek specializing in all this Mac OS X related (Hey, Steve nailed the coffin closed on OS 9 years ago!)

    Anyways, If you need freelance help from a seasoned pro with 15 years Mac experience, I’m your guy!

    Victor

    • odb
    • October 24th, 2007

    WBR – Burbank, CA. woot

Asides

    Andreas Schlegel currently lives in Singapore. He likes to write programs that generate audio, visual, and physical output. He enjoys doing projects with syntfarm.

    via sojamo.de

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    ["Five measures prove to be useful: A, the area of the isovist, which gives us a measure of size (in 3-D this is a volume); P, the perimeter of the isovist, which gives us a measure of the boundary length (in 3-D this is an area) excluding the horizon and excluding Q, which is a measure of the length (area) of the radial, component of the isovist boundary; M2, which is a statistical measure of the variability of the boundary’s distance from x; and M3, which is a measure of the asymmetry of M2." From Benedikt]

    If we dimensionalize the data from any given social framework online, could we apply isovistic theory to the quantification of perceptual awareness around a user in this textually augmented reality we now find ourselves?

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    Infra-mince, Duchamp declared, cannot be defined, but can only be described by examples, such as the difference in displaced volume between a clean shirt and the same shirt worn once, or the taste of one's mouth lingering in exhaled smoke.

    Infra-mince was a new way to think about physical and temporal dimensions (decades before Mandelbrot discovered fractals). Holes in some of Duchamp's artwork link the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. Sometimes he shot the holes out with bullets, echoing infra-mince again in the delay between the sounds of the shot and the impact.

    via everything2.com

    Add this to the isovism concept and you basically describe a social network.

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    A single isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space, together with a specification of the location of that point.

    via en.wikipedia.org

    Isovism is an interesting concept when applied to the creation of a website. Quantifying the perception of space in a given point. How far can you see from your homepage for instance into the larger n-dimensional world a site creates?

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    The new iPad has lots of space. The screen offers 1024x768 pixels.

    via tuaw.com

    What excites me the most about the iPad, I think, is that it takes paradigms and approaches and lets us expand them. Good art, whether visual or interface, comes from working against constraints imposed by the medium. The iPhone imposed very strict constraints and amazing new paradigms of interface design came out of that. These new approaches have bled their way into Mac OSX apps, Windows 7, etc. I expect the same to happen with the iPad.

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    The funny thing is, if Adobe does not take the steps to make tools to address a future with HTML5, what we'll be left with is tools others create. And chief amongst those others will most likely be Apple. Flash's stance here reminds of Microsoft's during the creation of Blackbird and later their migration toward Visual Interdev and Frontpage. When you build the walls so high around your garden, the fall will just kill your plants.

    [From Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]

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    Rest in piece little buddy.

    [From xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe]

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    Idiotic. Copy paste wasn't missing because of an ideological reason. It was missing because it wasn't ready. Same with an SDK and an App-Store. Multitasking presents a usability challenge that I wager they are nearly set in addressing. I bet the camera is supply chain related (same with the iPod Touch). WIth Apple products, what is MISSING is the interesting part, as it usually leads to exposure to ideologies, challenges or works in progress.

    [From What We Learned About Apple Yesterday]

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    I wonder if they are also seeing concurrent apps running from the same device, and that's how they know? I imagine the Tablet will be able to run multiple apps in a grid of some sort, given the screen size.

    [From Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket ]

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    A pretty big deal I think, especially considering the move from entertainment companies from "impression" based metrics to revenue.

    [From Boxee Blog » Coming soon: Boxee Payments]

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