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* Participating in traditional Waterfall and Agile projects in a team environment to deliver monitoring solutions for data centers.  
* Participating in traditional Waterfall and Agile projects in a team environment to deliver monitoring solutions for data centers.  
* Investigating new technologies and standards, making recommendations to the team, documenting best practices and tutoring other members of the team.  
* Investigating new technologies and standards, making recommendations to the team, documenting best practices and tutoring other members of the team.  
* Development of innovative solutions that enable us to scale the Symantec.Cloud platform. This will take the form of processes, automation of manual tasks and self-healing.  
* Development of innovative solutions that enable us to scale the Clown platform. This will take the form of processes, automation of manual tasks and self-healing.  
* Participating in the evaluation of third party tools or applications introduced into the production environment.  
* Participating in the evaluation of third party tools or applications introduced into the production environment.  
* Working with software developers and quality assurance experts to provide technical leadership on systems development projects.
* Working with software developers and quality assurance experts to provide technical leadership on systems development projects.

Latest revision as of 04:34, 26 April 2012

Key responsibilities include:-

  • Developing monitoring and automation solutions for large data centers, primarily Linux based for cloud based solution including virtual devices.
  • Participating in traditional Waterfall and Agile projects in a team environment to deliver monitoring solutions for data centers.
  • Investigating new technologies and standards, making recommendations to the team, documenting best practices and tutoring other members of the team.
  • Development of innovative solutions that enable us to scale the Clown platform. This will take the form of processes, automation of manual tasks and self-healing.
  • Participating in the evaluation of third party tools or applications introduced into the production environment.
  • Working with software developers and quality assurance experts to provide technical leadership on systems development projects.

Desired Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in a senior Unix/Linux SysAdmin or DevOps role, operating and maintaining large-scale, distributed Unix/Linux systems (1000+ machines).
  • Experience in participating in software development projects targeted toward systems administration and data center monitoring.
  • Demonstrated experience in monitoring, remotely upgrading and automating the control of cloud/data center devices.
  • Solid understanding of the needs of Network Operations Centers.
  • Ability to diagnose network or datacenter issues.
  • Experience with OSS technologies such as software deployment, rpm packages, yum, chef, puppet,
  • Proven experience in a technical role.
  • Excellent Unix scripting skills primarily Perl and Bourne shell.
  • Excellent TCP/IP networking skills with technical knowledge of firewalls, routers and load balancers. Knowledge of common protocols and technologies (e.g. Ethernet, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, MQ, Active Directory, Kerberos).

Desirable

  • Familiarity with monitoring systems such as Zenoss, Nagios etc.
  • Experience working on Agile projects in a matrix organization.
  • Good working technical knowledge of open source web, mail and database servers (apache, qmail, exim, postgreSQL, mysql).
  • Experience with many operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Cisco IOS, Data OnTap).
  • Familiarity with Agile development practices
  • ITIL v3 Foundation or Practitioner certification
  • Experience articulating complex ideas in written/diagrammatic form
  • Enthusiastic and able to rally a team around a technical vision.
  • Familiarity with Direct-attached, SAN and NAS storage.