The Wikimedia Foundation has an opening for a contractor to work on Wikimedia Labs's "Tools Labs" environment. The initial contract is for 6 months at full time (40 hours per week), with optional renegotiation of the contract at the end of that term.

Tools Lab Operations Engineer (Contractor) http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o7y3Wfwo&c=qSa9VfwQ

Wikimedia is looking for a contractor whose primary focus will be to assist the community developers to migrate their tools to this new Labs infrastructure, especially those residing in Toolserver today. In addition, this person will:

Support enhancement and perform operational duties of the Labs Virtualization Project using OpenStack and LAMP-stack technology. Duties include developing, deploying and supporting tools to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform Set up monitoring systems Provide system and database administration duties for the Labs environment

Candidates do not have to live in the USA; remote candidates are welcome. You must be willing to travel occasionally for international meetings, as well as to perform your duties. Two WMF people are already working on the Wikimedia Labs infrastructure (Ryan Lane and Andrew Bogott); this contractor will work closely with them, DaB. and Nosy, Toolserver users, and the Engineering Community Team.

Please see the job description for more details on what the contractor will do and what the required qualifications are. And please spread the word about this opening (and about our other openings at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings ) to people you know; we'd love to fill this soon. Thank you!