Job Listing: Senior Systems Admin

This individual will be a member of the Video Engineering Services team within the Product Engineering Organization. This team operates Comcast’s cross-platform services such as Caller ID on TV, Video On Demand navigation, and Video Applications for Set-Top-Boxes for over 24 million video customers and 4 million voice customers.

This job involves the full range of activities necessary to deliver services on an end-to-end basis, from working with vendors, to developing new systems and network designs, implementing new designs, deploying new systems and software, performing day-to-day systems administration and operations activities, building or integrating reporting, monitoring, and analytics, etc.

Major Duties:
•Function as a key member of the team responsible for the day-to-day, 24x7x365 on-call engineering, system administration, and operation of Comcast’s TV/Video delivery systems.
•Provide review and input into the design of new technical features and architectural changes to the VOD and Voice messaging systems.
•Perform Solaris and Linux operating system installation, upgrades, patching, tuning, and troubleshooting.
•Perform application software installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting, including Oracle, Weblogic, Apache, JBoss, etc.
•Assist with Oracle DBA functions to maintain and troubleshoot critical Oracle databases with 24x7 high availability requirements:
•Help develop and implement a capacity model, total cost of ownership model and augmentation plan for the platform.
•Participate directly in testing and planning to prepare for system upgrades.
•Perform troubleshooting and problem resolution activities with other support teams (e.g. network support, NOC, vendors). Produce Root Cause Analysis findings that focus on recommendations to learn from and avoid problem recurrence.
• Maintain productive relationships with peer organizations & vendors.
•Other duties as assigned.
Punctual, regular, and consistent attendance.

Required Skills

Required Skills/Experience:
•At least 5 years of Unix systems administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting experience in a large-scale (50+ servers), customer-facing environment.
•At least 4 years in-depth experience with IP networking (TCP/IP packet analysis, DNS, DHCP, NAT, etc.)
•Creation of shell or Perl scripts to automate tasks and perform basic data analysis.
•At least 4 years experience operating web servers such as Apache, JBoss, or WebLogic.
•Demonstrated ability to stay organized while multi-tasking between several projects, and to adapt to change.
•Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
•Team player with professional work ethic and positive attitude.
•Demonstrated ability to produce results with a minimum of day-to-day direction.
•Demonstrated interest in continuing to grow professionally and learn new things.

Desired Skills/Experience:
•Oracle administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting experience in a large-scale (50+ servers), customer-facing environment.
•HFC and Digital Video (MPEG2, MPEG4, etc) experience/knowledge.
•Storage Area Network (SAN) experience (EMC, HDS, Brocade, FCIP, iSCSI, etc.)
•Automation, data analysis, and troubleshooting tools development in Perl, PHP, shell or similar languages.
•Experience managing servers remotely in a distributed environment.
•Experience operating and troubleshooting web application servers. XML experience is a plus.
Education:
•Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent in work experience and self-study.
•Advanced degree is a plus.
Comcast is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Comcast via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from Comcast HR/Recruitment will be deemed the sole property of Comcast. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Comcast as a result of the referral or through other means.

Date Posted: July 17, 2008

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Job Type: Full-time City: Herndon
Experience: State: Virginia
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