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[Mike Brittain]

Heavy, Inc., a leading digital media and entertainment company based  
in mid-town, has an immediate need for a Senior Systems Architect to  
join our technology division.

Responsibilities

Responsible for design and hands-on implementation of back-end  
systems and network architecture for Heavy's internal and public- 
facing digital products, including web presences in multiple global  
markets and development of an internal video asset management  
system.  Architects databases and web services for internal and  
public-facing applications, in collaboration with the Systems  
Director, and works with systems team to deploy these systems.  Works  
with front-end team to integrate database systems with web site  
applications, and contributes to front-end development.  Manages  
source-control repositories (SVN) and content deployment.

The Senior Systems Architect is a member of the Systems Development  
team and reports to the Systems Director.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in development of web applications.
- A mastery of PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux (RedHat, etc), Perl, shell  
scripting, HTML, XML.
- Hands-on experience with developing web services, object-oriented  
programming, database and web server performance tuning, systems  
administration, networking, security, internationalization and  
character encoding methodologies, application performance and  
optimization techniques.
- Source control (SVN is beneficial)
- Additional experience with AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, and online  
video is beneficial.
- Experience designing scalable, high-traffic applications/systems.
- Strong decision making skills.
- Experience with social networking or video distribution is a plus.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to techjobs at heavy.com