UNIX Systems Administrator & Architect & Team Lead - Several Opportunities

Great opportunity to join a leading company.  Work in an engineering R & D environment supporting the Engineering Unix systems infrastructure. 

NOTE: Experience working in an Engineering Environment Supporting Engineering CAD tools like Cadence, EDA Tools etc. is key.

 

 

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR (Newport Beach, CA. & San Diego, CA)

3 jobs in Great Newport Beach, CA location & 1 Job in San Diego near the beaches with relocation provided.

 

We are seeking an experienced UNIX administrator to join a group of system administrators, all with the goal of supporting, maintaining, and optimizing a global Engineering Infrastructure (have experience with a large scale world wide implementation -- This will translate into hundreds of servers in multiple locations. We would also like to see someone who has experiencing defining and implementing projects within the UNIX infrastructure.). The candidate should be a dedicated problem solver who can multi-task and prioritizes tasks in a fast-paced and demanding environment.

Required Skills

? Has a solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts. All aspects of system and application environments depend on a robust network as the foundation layer. Ability to manage and troubleshoot network attached devices is a critical requirement (network attached storage, computing, authentication, and authorization).

? Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; Examples:

? Configuration of major UNIX components (network configuration, authentication parameters, process management, logging facilities, file systems management).

? System installation and configuration (Linux, Solaris, MetaFrame)

? Solid understand of the security implications of network, system, and application components

? Installing third-party software.

? Strong troubleshooting skills (system, network, and EDA application). Able to break down problems until root cause is understood.

? Independent problem-solving, and self-direction; Must be capable to taking general instruction, and executing desired result (implies both depth and breadth of knowledge).

? Strong interpersonal and communication skills; Must be capable to communicating clearly and accurately in English; Capable of writing purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting succinctly with upper management. Needs to be capable of working with a team of system administrators that are many hours out of phase (implies late night or early morning conferences on a regular basis to stay in tune)

? Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts (NFS, CIFS, automounter, inodes, filehandles).

? Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Tk, Perl, a shell).

? Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs (get them to compile).

Required Experience and Background

? A bachelor?s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field required.

? 5+ years of UNIX system and network administration experience required.

? Experience with EDA tools and environments strongly preferred.

Responsibilities Include:

? Administer a complex site alone or assisting in the administration of a geographic region.

? Helping plan and initiate future growth of the site/network. Manage vendors? relationships.

? Coordinate changes to the environment around the schedule of engineers and engineering projects (off-hours maintenance).

? Close coordination with other administrators around the globe for a standards compliant infrastructure (all sites should look almost identical so that all administrators would be capable of participating in the support of every other site).

? Receiving general instructions from a supervisor

? Share in off-hour/on-call duties

Benefits: Competitive salary, Bonus & Stock Options, Full package of benefits including: Medical, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, ADD, STD, ESPP, vacation 15 days year one, 10 company holidays...