Sr. Unix Design Engineer/Admin

Job Responsibilities:

* Document steps to install, upgrade, and backup and recover operating systems for use by testers, customer support personnel, and wireless application engineers.
* Work with other design engineers to plan, design and implement systems in a heterogeneous, distributed computing production environment.
* Research, specify, evaluate, test and recommend hardware and supporting software components within the OS specialty area.
* Integrate (build out) hardware for customer deployments.
* Uses structured development practices to design, code, compile, and test production programs of a complex nature.
* Uses structured engineering practices to develop and test hardware and software upgrade procedures of a complex nature in a geo-redundant environment.
* Work with vendors for product evaluation and selection.
* Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills:
* Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
* Structured approach towards development of processes and procedures.
* Strong oral and written communication skills.
* Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills.
* Develops and maintains effective and positive working relationships with peers and management.
* Promotes participative approaches to problem solving. Thrives in a team environment.

Experience & Other Requirements:

Education:
· Bachelor’s degree (preferably in computer science or similar discipline) from a four-year college or equivalent experience.

Experience:
* Experienced with integration and deployment issues involved in supporting a turnkey product in a customer environment.
* Minimum 10 years experience with Sun Microsystems (Solaris 10 & 8).
* Minimum 10 years experience with Unix System Administration.
* Minimum 5 years experience with Bourne shell scripting.
* Minimum 1 years experience of all of the following software/utilities:
* Solaris 10 Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
* OpenLDAP.
* Minimum 3-5 years experience with Sun Jumpstart and JASS toolkit.
* Minimum 2-3 years experience with standard UNIX tools, i.e., sed, awk, Expect.
* Minimum 3-5 years experience with Cisco networking.
* Minimum 5 years experience with system security and network security.
* Minimum 5 years experience in a heterogeneous system environment.
* 4-5 years experience building, automating, and supporting distributed computing environments.
* 3-5 years experience with Sun packaging and patching.
* 2-3 years experience with SNMP.
* Minimum 1 year of experience with TCP/IP socket connection theory and programming.
* Minimum 1 year of experience with Sun live upgrade and flash archive.
* Experienced with disaster recovery methods.
* Willing to work overtime and on-call as necessary to meet organizational needs.
* Experience with database configuration and management a plus.
* Prefer experience with Rational Clear Case.

* Experience and understanding of the telecommunications industry is a plus.