Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

 

HELIO is a new mobile brand dedicated to giving young, passionate consumers the type of wireless experience we've been waiting for. HELIO launches in the spring of 2006 with mind-blowing devices and services and uncompromising, straightforward pricing and customer care.

HELIO combines a fast-paced, start-up environment with the significant financial backing of two multi-billion dollar companies, one a leader in 3G wireless technology, and the other an expert at focusing on the consumer.

At HELIO, we?re building our company around the individual, and our mission is to make things work easily for our customers with straight talk and total expertise from a team of nice people


The Unix System Engineer would work with the Korean resources to implement their service platform, terminal applications, billing system and CRM system in the US. The platforms will run on a combination of Sun Solaris and Oracle.
Day-to-day, the candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining the high-availability 24/7 J2EE application. The candidate will be responsible or will participate in all infrastructure initiatives within the company that involve Solaris, WebLogic, Apache, SunONE, Oracle, SQL Databases etc.
Candidate must be able to recommend and implement best practices for highly available WebLogic environments. Strong hands-on knowledge of Solaris systems administration including Veritas Volume Manager and EMC Symmetrix/DMX SAN environment is a must. Candidate should also have networking knowledge including load balancing tools/techniques.
From a the project management side, the candidate should have good handle over the requirements gathering, designing, planning, presentation, documentation, communication and implementation with resource management and expectation management ability to work with senior executives, directors, managers and technical staff (engineers, developers etc).
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
o Application Support/Problem Management
o Respond to tickets that come into our ticketing system
o Troubleshoot hardware, software application and data center assets
o Develop/maintain operational tools/scripts used to monitor application and system processing.
o Performance monitoring/reporting
o Performance Tuning of hardware/software/apps
o Implement Backup and Recovery process and technology.
o System Availability / System Capacity Planning
o Installation and support of Software/Hardware.
o Installation of OS upgrades/fixes
o Vendor release upgrades and conversions (includes maintenance, patches, enhancements)
o Hardware upgrades.
o Responsible for storage management technologies (i.e. EMC NAS/SAN)
o Perform security/disaster recovery planning, implementation, testing.
o Maintain and improve a highly refined Jumpstart Process
o Maintenance of UNIX Practices
o Develop and enforce Information Security
o Review and implement security alerts.
o Recommend and implement Security Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

B.S. Computer Science + 7-10 years Enterprise Unix engineer experience required. WebLogic certified Administrator certification a plus. Candidate must have the ability to complete tasks with very little supervision and superb ability to work well with others in a team environment. Candidate must participate in 24/7 on-call rotation which includes being available to assist with issues even when not on call.
REQUIRED PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE:
Experience/knowledge of BEA Weblogic, Solaris 9 and 10, SunOne and Sun Cluster (configuring and maintaining) on Enterprise-Class Sun hardware; Veritas (Netbackup, VxVM, VxFS, QIO ); EMC (SAN, NAS, Power Path), Apache,


REQUIRED SKILLS:

- Strong UNIX and Linux background (including kernel configuration capabilities)
- Strong shell and perl scripting
- Strong understanding of core TCP/IP protocols
- Basic understanding of Oracle and Oracle components (i.e. 9i, 10G, etc.)
- Performance tuning and capacity planning fundamentals for Enterprise Unix
- Understanding of security best practices
- Familiar with Sarbanes Oxley process, procedures, and requirements
- Experience with Cisco and overall network architecture components.