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How long have you been with Rackspace?
* Years
* Months
 
 
 
Please select all Rackspace cloud products you have experience with:
 
Cloud Block Storage
 
Cloud Files
 
Cloud Servers
 
DNS as a Service
 
Exchange
 
Jungledisk
 
Load Balancer as a Service
 
Rackspace Mail
 
Sharepoint
 
Other
 

 
 
For all areas being surveyed, rate your level of proficiency for each skill. Proficiency ratings may be verified by managers.
- Unknown/No Experience: no experience with this concept or technology.
- Basic: fundamental knowledge and/or training with limited hands-on experience.
- Intermediate: practical experience using the skill in a work environment.
- Advanced: exceptional ability or the ability to perform complex functions.
- Expert: the ability to teach others; the "go to" person when people need help.

Microsoft Windows Administration
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Apache Web Server - Windows
CIFS/SMB
Event Logging
Event Log Analysis
IPv6
MS Active Directory (AD)
MS DNS Services
MS Internet Information Server
MS SQL Server Operations
MS Systems Center Operations Manager
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
MS Windows Server Administration
MS Windows Server Clustering
MS Windows Server Software Update Service
MS Windows Virtualization
Platform Troubleshooting
Powershell / Scripting
SSL Certificates
System Design
System Performance Optimization
Technical Documentation
Terminal Server
VB Scripting
VMWare Virtualization
Web Server Caching
Web Site Migrations
 
 
Linux Administration
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Apache Web Server - Linux
Capacity Planning
Cluster Management
Debian GNU Linux
Debian Package Management Tool
Deployment Management
Event Logging
Event Log Analysis
GRSecurity (Kernel Enhancement)
High Availability
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
IPv6
Kernel Virtual Machine Administration (KVM)
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
Linux Administration
Linux Cluster Management
Linux Kernel Development
Linux IP Tables/Netfilter
Linux Virtual Server
Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Network File System (NFS)
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Patching
Performance Monitoring
Platform Troubleshooting
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Package Management
Scalability Engineering
Security Enhanced Linux
Shell Scripting
SSL Certificates
System Design
System Performance Optimization
Technical Documentation
Tomcat Application Server
Web Server Caching
 
 
Database Administration
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Caching
Capacity Planning
Clustering
Configuration Management
Data Management
Data Modeling
Data Security
Database Administration
Database Engineering
Disaster Recovery
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
ERWin (CA)
Event Logging
Event Log Analysis
FogLight (Quest)
High Availability
Log Shipping
Logging
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL Database
Oracle Database
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Patching
Performance Monitoring/Analysis
PostgreSQL Database
Query Analyzer (also Explain Plan)
Scalability Engineering
Scripting
Snapshots
SpotLight (Quest)
SQL Writing/Troubleshooting
System Design
System Performance Optimization
Technical Documentation
Toad (Quest)
 
 
Storage
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Capacity Planning/Forecasting
Configuration Management
Data Migration
EMC
Event Log Analysis
Event Logging
High Availability
Logical Volume Management
Netapp
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Performance Optimization
RAID
Replication
SAN (Storage Area Network)
Snapshots
Storage Administration
Storage Design
Storage Switches (Fiber)
Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
 
 
Security
Expert Advacned Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Authentication
Authorization
Brute Force Attacks
Captcha Challenge-Response
Data Encryption
Data Validation
Denial of Service
Intrusion Detection
Passwords
Penetration Testing
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
SQL Injection
SSL Certificates
VPN Encryption
 
 
Programming Languanges
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
C#
C++
Erlang
HTML
Java
OpenStack
Perl Programming
PHP Programming
Powershell
Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Shell Scripting
VB Scripting
Web Scripting
 
 
Internet Protocols & API's
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic No Experience
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Domain Name System (DNS)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Internet Protocol v4 (IPv4)
Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
Whois
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic No Experience
Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Google Maps API
Twitter API
Zendesk API
Zeus Load Balancer API
 
 
Infrastructure Experience
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Availability Planning
Caching (Web)
Configuration Management
Hardware Load Balancers (ie Cisco)
Hardware Monitoring
Intrusion Detection
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Performance Monitoring
Platform Troubleshooting
RAID Technology
Software Load Balancers (ie Zeus)
Storage Management
 
 
Monitoring & Troubleshooting Experience
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic No Experience
Alerting / Escalation
Application Instrumentation
Application Monitoring
Database Monitoring
Event Log Analysis
Hardware Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Nagios Monitoring (Nagios)
Nimbus Monitoring (Nimsoft)
Performance Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
Synthetic Transactions
Zenoss Monitoring (Zenoss)
 
 
Networking
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Cisco
Firewall Configuration
Hardware Load Balancers
High Availability (Network)
IPv6 Migration
Multi Router Traffic Graphing (MRTG)
OSPF
Packet Analysis
Scalability Engineering (Network)
Solar Winds Monitoring
Switch Configuration
VLAN
VPN
 
 
Collaboration Technologies
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
ClamAV Antivirus Engine
Exim Mail Transfer Agent
MS Exchange Administration
MS Exchange Migrations
MS Exchange Upgrades
MS Sharepoint Administration
MS Sharepoint Migrations
MS Sharepoint Upgrades
POP-based Mail Administration
POP-based Mail Migrations
POP-based Mail Upgrades
Postfix Mail Server
QMail Mail Transfer Agent
Rackspace Mail
Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent
 
 
Soft Skills
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Communications
Customer Service
Project Management
Rackspace Knowledge
Self Sufficient
Status Reports
Team Management
Technical Documentation
Technical Leadership
 
 
Engineering
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Advanced Packaging Tool
Akamai Content Delivery Network
Build Management
Cloud Files API
Cloud Servers API
Concurrent Versioning System (CVS)
Engineering Methodology
Git Version Control System
Hadoop Framework
Infrastructure Architecture
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Kernel Virtual Machine Engineering (KVM)
Package Management
Platform Troubleshooting
Puppet Configuration
REST Software Architecture
Source Code Control
Subversion
VMWare Virtualization
XenServer
Zeus Load Balancer
 
 
Backup/Restore Technologies
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Backup Exec
Cloud Backup
Iron Mountain
Netbackup
 
 
Internet Tools
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
AWSTATS Web Analytics Tool
BIND DNS Software
Cacti Graphing Tool
Google Analytics
HTTP Headers
ProFTPD
Urchin Web Log File Analyzer
WordPress
 
 
Other Skills
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Cobbler Operating System
CORE Ticketing System
Hyper-V Hypervisor
Infrastructure Management
Jungle Disk
Memcached Distributed Caching System
Message Brokering Services
OS/DISTR
Plesk (Control Panel, Server Administrator)
Pound Reverse Proxy / Load Balancer
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Project Management
Puppet
Rackspace Cloud Control Panel
Redis Data Store
Robocopy Replication Tool
Role Servers
RRDTool (Round Robin Database Tool)
RSync File & Directory Sync Tool
ServiceMix
Secure Socket Layer Certificates
Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic Unknown/No Experience
Swift
SwitchTalker
User Interface Design
Varnish HTTP Accelerator
Webmin System Configuration Tool (Unix)
Web Servers
Web Site Migrations
Xen Hypervisors
XenServer
XML-RPC (XML Remote Procedure Call)
Yum (software management tool for CentOS)
Zendesk Ticketing System
Zeus Load Balancer
Zookeeper
 
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