Position Description:
The AFS team of Sine Nomine Associates provides OpenAFS support and development services for customers of various industry sectors and sizes. Our AFS engineers are in direct contact with our customers’ technical staff, and work together in a strongly team-oriented manner. Engineers take ownership of support and/or development issues, and follow through from initiation to delivery. The Senior AFS Engineer will analyze customer problems, isolate causes, and develop fixes suitable to be included in OpenAFS. The Senior Engineer will also be responsible for designing and implementing feature development for OpenAFS as called upon by customers and Sine Nomine Associates plans. The AFS Engineer may also be called upon to assist Sales in developing scopes for potential work, and validating time and task estimates for proposals.
Position Category:
Full-time salaried
Location:
Ashburn, Virginia, USA (SNA home office)
Location Details:
Casual office/laboratory environment; no cubicles
Telecommute (subject to company telecommute policy):
Full or mostly telecommute possible
- Resolution of support issues in a timely manner and in accordance with industry best practices
- Development of enhancements to OpenAFS, performed individually or in a team
- Participation in pager rotation (one week every 6-8 weeks) for acknowledgment and routing of trouble tickets for 24/7 support contracts (AFS and other service contracts)
- Support of sales team to determine customer needs and scope prospective projects
- Cooperation with customer technical staff
- Limited amount of travel (a maximum of 25%)
Position Qualifications/Education/Requisite Experience:
- Minimum of 1-3 years of administration experience with AFS (OpenAFS or Transarc)
- Experience with 2 or more of the following: Solaris, Linux (any of Debian, Red Hat, SLES), HP-UX, IRIX, MacOS X
- Highly proficient in C/C++ (source code sample required)
- Experience with OpenAFS at the source code level highly desired
- Previous experience with complex software development projects and testing in highly distributed environment highly desirable (provide references)
- Bachelor Degree, or equivalent work experience
- Solid communication and team work skills (recent writing sample required)
- Self-directed, goal-oriented work style with disciplined habits and minimal need for supervision and project management
- Professionalism on all levels of interaction with colleagues and customers
Contact Information:
Evan Macbeth – 703-723-6673 – emacbeth@sinenomine.net
- E-mail your resume to: jobs@sinenomine.net
- Include: Recent (professional) writing sample; 3 Professional/Technical References plus a reference for complex software development in a distributed environment.
- On Subject Line, make sure you include: Senior AFS Engineer
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