Systems Engineer (Sr. Linux)

Company Description

At DIRECTV we entertain the future. Our Engineering teams are delivering technology that powers the best video experience on every screen. We even have a few Emmys to prove it.

As part of the Broadcast Projects group you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality linear and streaming media content to our business and residential customers. We are proud of the programming we deliver and work hard to ensure it has the highest reliability and best quality in the business. Turns out, DIRECTV is a pretty fun place to work too. Are you up to the challenge? Only the brightest minds need apply.

Job Description

• Implement and architect server/systems infrastructure in a large 24x7 environment.
• Be able to implement from design diagrams a highly available and scalable system infrastructure. Candidate should be able to translate a design concept into a working diagram highlighting individual hardware/software components required to integrate the project into existing infrastructure.
• Manage work completion to engineering milestones by ensuring that development, integration, test and production environments are all in sync; implement revision change control
• Support and maintain communication and project workflow between development group of architecture and engineering teams and the operations/implementation group.
• Experience with and understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Openstack and VMware
• Advanced experience with the following VMware concepts:
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager
• Distributed Switches
• vMotion/Storage vMotion
• Able to create, maintain & deploy templates
• Create clones & customization profiles
• High Availability (HA) & Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Host profiles
• Install and configure Dell blades chassis and servers (Rack mounted & Blades)

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in networking industry.
• B.S (or higher) in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x - 6.5, Redhat Deployments using Kickstart installations, Redhat Clustering configuration and deployments
• Experience with Oracle Linux 5.6 - 6.4 and Oracle RAC cluster technology
• Cloud Computing: AWS, VMWare and Openstack
• Network bonding and VLAN Trunking
• Server platforms: Dell & HP rack and blade systems
• Experience with the deployment and management of storage hardware:
• 3PAR, EMC, Isilon IQ, iDRAC configuration & management and NetApp NAS appliances
• SAN hardware and technologies: EMC/Brocade, SAN Directors, Fibre-Attached storage, iSCSI, RAID levels and best practices
• Linux administration to include networking, storage, multipathing configuration
• Familiarity with:
• NTP, DNS, NFS, Load Balancing
• Fiber Channel zoning concepts
• Brocade administration, NPIV & Access Gateway Mode
• HTTP servers and understanding of content delivery/CDN integration
• High Availability and Scalability Technology: Brocade Load Balancers, clustering software, auto-failover, Ethernet bonding

Additional Information

Office and Interpersonal Skills

• Must be able to work successfully in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment, and effectively multi-task multiple priorities in a team-oriented setting.
• Candidates should possess excellent written/verbal communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills and be able to communicate ideas and concepts between different departments.
• Demonstrate leadership and organizational skills by seeing a project from engineering design concept to final product deployment.
• Must be able to work both independently on projects and cooperatively within a team environment.