SENIOR UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / ENGINEER

Description

SENIOR UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / ENGINEER #1574953 We are seeking a senior Unix Systems Administrator or Engineer with extensive experience working in a complex computing environment to join our engineering support team. Experience in an EDA environment would be ideal. Our customer base consists of hundreds of extremely intelligent engineers who continually provide us with complex problems to be solved. A thorough understanding of Linux administration is a must. This person will act as a senior member of our Engineering Support team, working with other senior staff members to provide support to our engineers in troubleshooting problems and making their environment and processes more efficient and secure. They will also be responsible for supporting a large code base of tools, maintaining our development environment, and creating new tools and utilities that support our engineering efforts. Strong programming skills and a desire to automate repetitive tasks will be essential. Although our code base in primarily in Perl, we welcome creative contributions in the language of your choice. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: A solid, thorough understanding and experience with: - General Unix administration and troubleshooting (Redhat and Ubuntu strongly preferred) - Linux desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, VNC, NX, etc) - TCP/IP networking fundamentals - DNS administration - NFS and the Linux automounter - Building, installation, and support of GNU/FSF development tools - Strong programming skills are essential - you will be working with complex middleware. - Strong written and verbal communication skills - A passionate drive to provide excellence in IT support to your users - Ability to serve in a weekly rotation of 24/7 oncall support (approximately one week out of twelve) DESIREABLE SKILLS OR EXPERIENCE: - Batch queuing systems (LSF, Grid, etc) - Source code and version control systems (Perforce, CVS, etc) - Unix/Windows interoperability and CIFS file sharing - Database administration or programming - System performance tuning - NetApp filers - Cygwin administration - Apache web server administration EOE