Principal systems engineer (unix/storage admin)

Location : San Jose, CA
Type: Full Time
Req# 33451

Responsibilities:

-Responsible for operationally excellent management of Unix systems and SAN infrastructure.
-Plans, installs, tests, and maintains servers, SAN Fabric systems and storage arrays.
-Required to contribute to the selection, design, and implementation of hardware, Operating Systems, and technical solutions to solve business problems.
-Ability to serve as a technical lead for project implementation, drive technical site escalations to conclusion and provide a leadership example to junior staff members.
-Participate in 24x7 On-Call rotation.
-Maintaining and improving on strict technical OS and IO Stack standards as they relate to performance, availability and management.
-Drive new technology evaluations with vendors and architecture team in Storage technologies.

Requirements:

-Solid, demonstrable problem solving ability. Minimum 8 years Unix Systems Administration experience; Two of those years should be at a senior /mentoring level.
-Solaris experience mandatory; expertise preferred. Prefer those with internet service experience, experience Managing/Tuning Database servers, and those who have experience in more than one Unix Variant.
-Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) experience required; and VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) or other High-availability service experience preferred.
-Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex i/o issues in one of the worlds largest multi Peta Byte SAN environments. Hitachi/Brocade experience preferred.
-Individual must be able to articulate advanced technical topics (e.g. process scheduling, kernel internals, TCP/ IP communications at all levels) and scripting (Bourne, Perl, Awk, Sed, etc.) prowess.
Education:
Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Preference given to higher Educational success, particularly in the Computing field.