Systems Architect, CA, Glendale

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Posted: October 26, 2006

Job title: Systems Architect

Company name: DreamWorks Animation

Location: CA, Glendale

Travel: 0-25%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Description:
Seeking a Systems Architect to join our innovative technology team!

Responsibilities:
_ Designs/implements management tools for complex local and wide-area
networks of machines
_ Designs/implements and automates administration of network services
_ Works under general direction from senior management.
_ Recommends policies on system use, services, and procedures
_ Provides technical leadership to system administrators, system
programmers, or others of equivalent seniority


Required skills:
Required Skills

_ Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing
proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to
client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper
management
_ Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes
_ A solid understanding of an operating system; understands paging and
swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do,
filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use
performance analysis to tune systems
_ A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment
concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, and
the design of consistent network-wide filesystem layouts
_ Extensive programming experience in Perl, shell, and C
_ Ability to find and correct defects in existing C code repositories
affecting system performance
_ Ability to create new operating-system-level services and/or modifying
existing services
_ Experience programming in an Oracle and PL/SQL environment
_ Experience designing, building, configuring, and managing NFS and autofs
environments
_ Experience designing, building, configuring, and managing an LDAP
infrastructure
_ Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols. Ability to debug (tcpdump,
etherpeek, netstat, lsof ) and program at the network level
_ Experience installing/configuring and automating maintenance of DNS/BIND
_ Experience with network security (e.g., configuring firewalls, deploying
authentication systems, or applying cryptography to network applications)
_ Experience with host security (e.g., passwords, uids/gids, SIDs, file
permissions, ACLs, filesystem integrity, use of security packages)
_ Experience with Kerberos
_ Experience installing/configuring server hardware, peripherals, and
storage systems
_ Experience coordinating multiple independent computer facilities (e.g.,
working for the central group at a large company)
_ Experience at sites with over 1,000 computers, over 1,000 users, and over
a 100 terabytes of disk space
_ Ability to apply statistical analysis techniques for performance analysis
or debugging purposes for 1000+ concurrently operating systems

Required Background
_ More than ten years of previous UNIX and/or Linux system administration
experience
_ More than five years of UNIX and/or Linux programming experience
_ Last-tier service support experience in an on-call pager rotation


Desired skills:
Desirable Background and Skills
_ A degree in computer science or a related field.
_ Extensive programming background in any applicable language
_ Publications within the field of system administration.
_ Experience as postmaster of a site
_ Experience programming in a TCP/IP multicast networking environment
_ Experience implementing and developing to a single-sign on authentication
environment
_ Experience with X and OpenGL software development.
_ Experience as a database administrator
_ Experience installing/configuring load balancers, packet shapers, or
proxies
_ Experience with administration of charge-back accounting for service
consumption
_ Experience with Network Appliance file servers and/or development with
NetApp API's and protocols

URL for more information: http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4846#contact