Systems Engineer in Boston, MA

Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills

Highly motivated, enjoy fast paced environment

Excellent written and oral communication skills


Experience: The ability to multitask and pay attention to detail

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide support to development teams for monitoring, stopping and restarting applications running on Unix platform.

Work with development teams to understand performance concerns, and create test plans to predict future production performance characteristics.

Install application updates on development and production machines.

Provide 2nd level production support for Unix application services.

Develop and maintain custom monitoring tools.

Develop and maintain autosys scheduling scripts.

Develop and maintain performance testing tools.

Troubleshoot issues in both development and production environments.

Document operational procedures for 1st and 2nd level support staff.

Work closely with Unix system administrators to maintain Unix servers.

Report on testing results to application owners.

Qualifications

5+ years Unix experience

Unix scheduler knowledge (cron, autosys)

Script (ksh, sh, csh) and Perl development experience

SQL knowledge

College degree preferred

Useful Skills/Knowledge

Unix software release management tools (Solaris packages, RPM, etc)

Java

Clearcase

Project management



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