Position: Director, Technology Development

Company: Warner Bros Records

Location:

Why Work at Warner Bros Records?

WBR is the top label in the US with some of the most respected acts in the business, from R.E.M. To Neil Young. We are currently celebrating our 50th anniversary. Besides that, we are the only label with a Technology Department entirely dedicated to doing great stuff online. We run the department as a startup, with all the benefits, toys, electronics, servers, Mac’s (2 per person on average!) conferences and geeking out that that entails. And free soda. And video games.

You can read about some of our technology initiatives here:
http://tinyurl.com/3wpzj3
http://blackrimglasses.com

We are not the IT department.

Competitive salary, benefits, bonus, perks

We pay competitively, with generous bonuses and very good perks including CD’s, concerts, software/research tools and more. The aim of our department is to have geeky fun, with music, technology and everything in between. No idea is too crazy or dismissed out of hand and no “what if we....” is ever not pondered.

The Position

Director, Technology Development

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Specing, development and engineering of technology infrastructure and applications for the WBR Platform
  
• Working with outside developers on features and engineering
  
• Help with server configurations and settings
  
• Monitor service stability and performance
  
• Troubleshoot implementations of technology and programs
• Work independently and collaboratively in equal measure with the members of the technology team
  
• Document current and future configurations, process, techniques and procedures
  
• Take the extra 10% of the work on one task to decrease the work by 50% of the next: AUTOMATE
  
• Participate in on-call support when necessary

• BS in computer science or equivalent experience
• 4 years minimum experience with LAMP infrastructures
  
• Expert level familiarity with PHP, bash scripting, python, C, C++
  
• Expert level familiarity with MySQL and relational databases
  
• SVN experience
  
• Expert level familiarity with XHTML, AJAX, Javascript, CSS, including CSS2 and XHTML strict/transitional
  
• Web production workflow knowledge (ie, cross-browser optimization)
  
• A strong desire to learn the new and interesting in the technology space

• Experience with the Drupal content management system
  
• Experience with emerging technologies (iPhone, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial)
  
• Flash expertise (CS3/AS3)
  

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