Duties/Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Windows/UNIX/Linux servers.
• Install and validate in-house developed applications.
• Assist test teams in troubleshooting environmental issues.
• Certification of next generation server, storage, and network hardware to match company and engineering growth.
• Understand how to deploy a highly available and scalable system infrastructure.  Candidate should be able to translate a design concept into a working diagram highlighting individual hardware/software components required to integrate the project into existing infrastructure.
• Manage and ensure development, integration, test, and production environments are all in sync by implementing and maintaining revision change control.
• Support and maintain communication and project workflow between development, test, and operations groups.
• Understand how to maintain and deploy DNS, DMZ, and Internet-related services.  Candidate should have a good understanding of how to secure internal subnets against external Internet traffic by utilizing different technologies such as load balancers, firewalls, DMZ zoning, and VLAN segregation.
• Understand server virtualization technology such as VMWare and the proper use of these environments.
• Be able to work successfully in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment, and effectively multi-task multiple priorities independently or in a team-oriented setting.
• Possess excellent written/verbal communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills and be able to communicate ideas and concepts between different departments.
• Demonstrate leadership and organizational skills by seeing a project from design concept to final product deployment.
• Establish technology roadmaps for servers, OS versions, and cluster software through product evaluations and collaboration with development and operations groups.

Experience/Skill Requirements:

• Applicant must possess a Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field (e.g., EE, CS, CE), and have at least 4 years of professional experience in the area of systems design, integration, and installation.

In addition, this individual should have experience or strong familiarity with a majority of the following technologies:

• Operating systems:  Linux (RHEL), HP-UX, Windows
• Application Support: JBOSS, Tomcat, Weblogic
• Virtualization software/hardware: VMWare, Citrix Xen
• Server platforms:  x86, x86-64, IA64, PA-RISC, SPARC, POWER
• Storage hardware:  EMC Clarion, EMC CDL, 3Par Technology, Isilon IQ, NAS appliances
• SAN hardware and technologies:  EMC/Brocade, SAN Directors, Fibre-Attached storage, iSCSI, RAID levels and best practices
• Network related protocols:  TCP/IP, SSH, NFS, CIFS, FTP
• Scripting languages:  ksh, bash, Perl, PHP, Ruby, CGI, http
• Relational databases: Oracle, IBM DB2 (Sybase also preferred but not required)
• High availability and scalability technology:  Load balancers, clustering software, auto-failover, Ethernet bonding
• Design/planning software tools: Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project

Personal skills:

• Passionate about server side technologies (clusters, grids, clouds), OS;
• Eager learner of new technologies and systems;
• Written and verbal interpersonal communications skills;
• Team member;
• Good verbal and written communication English skills.