Senior System Engineer - Judge Group

•             Coordinates with internal departments to review existing integration capabilities, data sources, and proposed solution designs for feasibility, cost, and functionality.

•             Conducts design sessions with appropriate participation from architects and engineers.

•             Creates detailed design documents and functional specifications for new applications / services and for enhancements to existing systems / services.

•             Collaborates to creates configuration designs for design and implementation of various environments.

•             Creates work effort estimates for new features and bug fixes for use in prioritization and release management.

•             Design core code modules, unit test tools and release notes for enhancements and bug fixes

•             Reviews new development tools, application frameworks and testing tools for functionality / effectiveness

•             Installs, administers, configures and maintains CPE activation, provisioning, and operations applications including operating systems and related software.

•             Provides 'on call' support to resolve CPE activation, provisioning, and operations platform issues after normal business hours.

•             Uses established change management processes, requiring operational procedures be performed with minimal customer impact, (i.e., during established maintenance window)

•             Configure, tune, and maintain databases in variety of languages.

•             Documents systems configurations and upgrades

•             Designs and implements change and control policies and disaster recovery plans; lead troubleshooting efforts to restore functionality in the event of an outage.

BASIC / MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

•             Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, or related field and / or equivalent work experience

•             Minimum Five (5) years of experience in Application Development, Network OSS, Application Development, System Administration, Database support and development work experience

•             Minimum three (3) years of Systems Administration and Database support and development experience

•             Minimum one (1) years of project management work experience

ADDITIONAL JOB QUALIFICATIONS

•             Ability to read, write and speak the English language to communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, in person, on the phone, and by written communications in a clear, straightforward, and professional manner.

•             Ability to maintain and administer UNIX-based platforms, including performance tuning, package installation, patch management, network, and server management tasks.

•             Advanced knowledge of troubleshooting tools (i.e tcpdump, netstat, iostat, traceroute, snoop)

•             Advanced experience with System monitoring applications (Nagios, Solarwinds, HP OpenView, etc).

•             Solid understanding of LAN/WAN topology, network protocols (TCP/IP, FTP, NFS), switches and firewalls

•             Experience activating/maintaining CPE per the DOCSIS, PacketCable, and SNMP specifications.

•             Experience with configuration of CPE using the TR-069 and related specifications.

•             Advanced comprehension of the DHCP, DNS, SNMP, and TFTP protocols

•             Advanced ability to conduct design sessions to specify solution designs for feasibility, cost, and functionality.

•             Advanced ability to create detailed documentation to functionally understand new and existing applications.

•             Advanced ability to follow and implement established change and control policies and procedures.

•             Advanced ability to troubleshoot application problems.

•             In-depth knowledge of development tools, application frameworks, and testing tools, knowledge of OSS applications and software

•             In-depth knowledge of choosing the appropriate lifecycle and the planning, monitoring and control of the systems engineering process

•             Strong ability to transform an operational need into a description of system parameters and incorporate those parameters in the control of the total system development to achieve an optimum, cost-effective balance of all system elements.

•             Advanced knowledge of network and systems engineering systems concepts and system/super-system skills, including Cisco UCS, and VMWare systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•             Experience working in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role.

•             Experience with Infrastructure as a Service technologies.

•             Experience with Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and development.

•             Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, Nutanix or OpenStack.

•             Experience with Unix/Linux or Windows systems administration.

•             Experience with Compute in a Cloud Environment using Rack Mount and Blade Servers.

•             Experience with Storage in a Cloud Environment using SAN, HCI, or Software Defined block, file, and object.

•             Certifications in Virtualization, Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, Compute, Storage, Networking, Public Cloud and Operating System technologies.