Non-member submission from ["John D Nanninga" <jnanninga at cryptorights.org>]

[John D Nanninga]

GOAL:	
The CryptoRights Foundation is developing HighFire, a communications
privacy system based on OpenPGP for use by established  Human Rights
organizations. By providing a tamper and spoof resistant communications
system, CryptoRights working to protect  Human Rights workers and those
they work to defend.

POSITION: 
Security Software Engineer

NEEDED:  
A major contributor in small team of developers working on a cutting
edge secure communications solution for use by Human  Rights
organizations globally. Technologies include OpenBSD, Linux, PHP, C,
GPG, MySQL, IPSec, LDAP, on x86 based Single  Board Computers.  You
would contribute to the architecture, needs analysis, documentation,
development, debugging, delivery  and maintenance/enhancements of
systems and software which comprise the secure communications solution.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Above all, you must be intelligent and motivated to succeed with our
mission to help Human Rights organizations. You must  also have a solid
history of delivering quality software.  Experience with SBCs is a plus.
In this hand-on role, your  responsibilities will include integration of
existing open-source packages on an OpenBSD platform and developing all
components which are required but not available including key management
systems.  Further, you will:
* Work with the product manager and other engineers both compensated and
volunteer to ensure that product requirements are  clearly understood,
documented and realized in the resulting product.
* Identify and address potential scalability, security and usability
issues and performance bottlenecks.
* Adhere to source control processes and methodologies.  Familiarity
with CVS version control system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* OpenBSD Security Auditing and Configuration
* PHP component development
* C development
* Experience integrating front-end code with one or more server-side
scripting technologies (e.g., cgi/perl, php, asp, etc.)
* Public Key Infrastructure
* GPG Key structures
* Hand coding HTML
* MySQL
* Squirrelmail experience a plus

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
* Self-motivation- Able to identify and communicate to the product
manager what needs to be done.
* Ability and desire to work as a part of a team with other highly
skilled developers.
* Ability to manage own work effort.
* Ability to mentor other developers and share knowledge effectively.
* Ability to work well under pressure.
* Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
* Ability to physically attend one to two meetings a week in San
Francisco a big plus.

COMPENSATION:

* This is a paid position. Compensation depends on the level of
contribution provided.

INTERESTED?
E-mail your resume with a letter of interest to
highfire-admin at cryptorights.org.

NOTE:	My apologies if this is off-topic for this list.  Given the
economy and the number of good people needing work, I ask  for your
indulgence.

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