The University of Amsterdam is looking for an all-round system administrator and tool developer in the area of digital methods research at the New Media and Digital Culture program. The position is for 30.4 hours per week (0.8 FTE) for the duration of one year. After positive assessment, the appointment will be converted into a permanent contract. Your tasks: Development and maintenance of tools for courses in the New Media program. For the MA and BA digital research methods courses, these tools include the Internet Censorship Explorer, Google Scrapers (Web, news, blogs), the Wayback Machine scraper, as well as programs that help map hyperlink networks within Wikipedia and parsing and analyzing Wikipedia edit histories. For an overview of tools see tools.digitalmethods.net. The developer is also expected to write manuals for the use of tools, for example for collecting and analyzing archived pages of a website. The instruments, methods and techniques are developed in close collaboration with Prof. Dr. Richard Rogers and the researchers of the Digital Methods Initiative. With these instruments, methods and techniques, the Digital Methods Initiative is globally leading and innovative in its education and research methods. Maintaining and developing the Masters of Media blog. This work also includes supervising students with the technical aspects of blogging: designing a site, adjusting plug-ins, determining important functionalities, et cetera. Mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl has a good ten thousand unique visitors per month. Your profile: As a suitable candidate you have: - at least a BA education; - knowledge of and experience with the system management of web servers (physical and VPS); - good knowledge of Linux. Experience with OSX and Windows; - experience with interfacing with web APIs; - knowledge of and experience with HPC and distributed storage; - experience with databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL but also NoSQL; - knowledge of and experience with the management and adaptation of blogs (Wordpress) and wikis; - experience in multiple web technologies such as PHP and Python, DHTML, AJAX, CSS, SVG, JSON, XML, XQuery, XSLT; - affinity with open standards. For information you can contact: Erik Borra <E.K.Borra@uva.nl> Please find the full vacancy text here (in Dutch): https://www.uva.nl/content/vacatures/2019/09/19-583-allround-systeembeheerde... -- Esther Weltevrede | Assistant Professor |Program Director MA New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/e.j.t.weltevrede | https://www.digitalmethods.net | @esthr