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Deseret Digital Media

Deseret Digital Media (DDM) is a newly created, online division of Deseret Management Corporation that will manage the digital assets of DesertNews.com, KSL.com, Mormontimes.com, LDSChurchNews.com, DesertBook.com, and Gospelink.com. The sites collectively reach over 4 million unique users with over 200 million impressions each month. The organization has a uniquely spiritual mission and seeks to be strategic to its Church ownership.

System and Network Administrator — The System and Network Administrator will be responsible for the hardware and software infrastructure that runs the digital assets at DDM. He or she will report directly to Stephen Tolman, Vice President of Technology for Deseret Digital Media. The Administrator should have 5-10 years of experience with managing and maintaining a critical IT infrastructure in a very dynamic environment.

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

Ability to install, setup, maintain, update and patch a large cluster of Linux servers

Architect infrastructure expansion to fit a rapidly changing environment

Maintain mySQL master-slave replicated cluster and a knowledge of XML

Working knowledge of Linux and network best practices and security vulnerabilities

Proactive and aggressive with monitoring, performance analysis & troubleshooting

Proficient with the command line, shell scripting and programming experience

Monitor and maintain network operations and security

Aggressively maintains skill set by reading books, forums and blogs on related topics

On-call 24/7 in a "highly available" environment

Qualifications:

Experience administering and tuning a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Willingness to learn new and emerging technologies

Experience with Sun Solaris would be a plus

Experience with Cisco IOS on routers, switches, load balancers & firewalls

Understanding of network protocols such as DNS, BGP, IPMI, SNMP, TCP, UDP and SMTP

Proficient using general diagnostic tools (ping/telnet/traceroute/etc...)

Experience with memcached

Experience with FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)

Team player with a positive attitude who enjoys working with others

Strategic thinker with analytical and operational skills

Goal-oriented person with high personal drive, integrity and energy

BS required or equivalent experience

5-10 years of experience with managing and maintaining a critical IT infrastructure

In addition to these requirements, the System and Network Administrator should be able to think strategically about the objectives for Deseret Digital Media. He or she should also be motivated by the organization's broader mission and be able to develop relationships with all members of the technology team.

If you are interested in this System and Network Administrator position, visit ksl.com for application procedures.

Lead Web Developer — The Lead Web Developer will be responsible for development, design, and maintenance of DeseretBook.com and Gospelink.com. The candidate would become a part of the DeseretBook.com team; collaboration and teamwork are a must. There are and will continue to be new and expanding products in the Deseret Book portfolio as well as other DDM online products.

The ideal candidate needs to have experience with high traffic web sites, excellent communication skills, and is willing and excited to learn new skills and technologies.

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

Work with Deseret Book stakeholders on needs and design requirements from Web Marketing/Sales, Support Center, Buyers, Publishing/Wholesale, etc. in the continued web development and data architecture creation for DeseretBook.com

Perform code development life cycle from design, create, review, test and deployment

Maintenance of existing enterprise web applications

Primary responsibility is back end development, but applicants must have some front end experience working with designer on HTML implementation

Ability to work independently in addition to collaborative work on large projects with team members, including users, administrators, designers, and other developers

On-call 24/7 in a "highly available" environment

Qualifications:

Experience developing with MVC frameworks using Rails and OOP

Ability to administer web deployments on Linux with Apache

Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL a plus)

Familiarity with PCI security standard and web security best practices

Understanding of ecommerce design principles for usability and SEO

Experience in HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP, JavaScript, AJAX

Team player with a positive attitude who enjoys working with others

Strategic thinker with analytical and operational skills

Goal-oriented person with high personal drive, integrity and energy

BS in Computer Science or related field preferred

2 or more years of professional experience with Rails

In addition to these requirements, the Lead Web Developer should be able to think strategically about the objectives for Deseret Digital Media. He or she should also be motivated by the organization's broader mission and be able to develop relationships with all members of the technology team.

If you are interested in this Lead Web Developer position, visit ksl.com for application procedures.

Web Developer PHP/MySQL — The Web Developer will be responsible for development, design, and maintenance of DeseretNews.com. The candidate would become a part of the existing DeseretNews.com team; collaboration and teamwork are a must. There are and will continue to be new and expanding products in the Deseret News portfolio as well as other DDM online products.

The ideal candidate needs to have experience with high traffic web sites, excellent communication skills, and is willing and excited to learn new skills and technologies.

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

Development of enterprise PHP web applications

Maintenance of existing enterprise web applications

Design and analysis of MySQL tables, queries, and stored procedures

Primary responsibility is back end development, but applicants must have some front end experience

Ability to work independently in addition to collaborative work on large projects with team members, including users, administrators, designers, and other developers

On-call 24/7 in a "highly available" environment

Qualifications:

Willingness to learn new and emerging technologies

Experience with MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Advanced knowledge of n-tier web architecture

Experience with version control systems

Experience with the following products is a plus: Subversion, JIRA, Smarty, Memcache, Prototype, and ImageMagick

Team player with a positive attitude who enjoys working with others

Strategic thinker with analytical and operational skills

Goal-oriented person with high personal drive, integrity and energy

BS in Computer Science or related field preferred

2 or more years of professional experience with PHP

In addition to these requirements, the Web Developer should be able to think strategically about the objectives for Deseret Digital Media. He or she should also be motivated by the organization's broader mission and be able to develop relationships with all members of the technology team.

If you are interested in this Web Developer PHP/MySQL position, visit ksl.com for application procedures.