There's a long and somewhat uninteresting story around this request, but the bottom line is that my project needs someone short term to build a Linux server and bring a bunch of Perl scripts online. The scripts themselves are a mess- not well developed or maintained, and we don't have any in-house professional experience with Linux except for a few guys who have done some band-aiding here and there to the scripts in question. All of their experience has been maintaining scripts on an existing Linux box, not bringing them up from scratch (though they have a TON of business knowledge regarding what the scripts actually do).

We were implored during our stand up today to call on any resources we can find to help with this, so I figured someone here might have the skills/time/inclination to take on a short term contract to get us up and running and then provide follow up support as necessary (which should be minimal since we have a guy who was maintaining these scripts before in a different environment). If anyone has interest, please contact me. I have no idea what the particulars are regarding compensation etc., but I know this is a critical thing and the powers that be need it done fast and by someone they can trust. I am sure they understand how this translates into reasonable compensation.

Note: I am being as up front as possible about the code quality being abysmal. A large part of my job the last few years has been re-writing the scripts into windows services that actually have unit tests and put through rigid QA. What we are dealing with now are scripts that haven't gotten ported.