[Gnhlug-jobs] Systems Engineer at WSI Corporation in Andover, MA

Mellott, Scott smellott at wsi.com
Thu Feb 16 08:59:59 EST 2006


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http://www.wsi.com/corporate/careers.asp
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No phone calls - email OK (smellott at wsi.com)
No recruiters or 3rd-parties
Position is full-time, local in

Media Systems Engineer

Purpose of Position:
Help define, develop and maintain the next generation of weather visualizations 
for broadcast television. You’ll be using your hardware and software integration 
experience to help create/enhance an on-air visualization system that conveys 
weather events to viewers in new and exciting ways.  Our team consists of 
software professionals, meteorologists & graphics artists working together to 
take broadcast weather graphics to the next level. WSI, the premier provider of 
data and software for weather broadcasters, is located in a state-of-the-art 
facility north of Boston.  A wholly-owned subsidiary of Landmark Communications, 
we are a sister company to The Weather Channel.


Specific Duties:

The person that fills this position will help to create and maintain the next 
generation of broadcast weather display and dissemination systems.  The duties 
include:
- Maintaining the current product line's OS configuration, external tools and 
installation process.
- Assist software development in performance testing and tuning.
- Evaluation and integration of new hardware & 3rd party software into our products.
- Help to re-architect our software deployment process.
- Interface with Customer Service to provided a second level of service to our 
client base.
- Provide tools (software, hardware, documentation or knowledge) to Customer 
Service to allow them to help customers better and faster.


Requirements:
- Know-how for prioritizing work, managing risks, working with team members and 
meeting deadlines that comes from being in the trenches in previous product 
releases.
- Strong background in system administration and hardware integration.
- Ability to formulate operating system advancements and improvements, evaluate 
impact of hardware on software performance, and recommend changes, required.
- Excellent planning, problem-solving, organizational, project management, and 
customer service skills, required.
- 3 years of experience administering Linux and Windows based systems.
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline
- Scripting Languages: Python and/or Perl
- Shell Scripting: Bourne or Korn
- Command of the following:
	Linux (RedHat certified preferred)
	Windows XP and Server 2003
	x86 based hardware
	Networking
	Storage solutions (SAN, NAS, iSCSI)
	System performance testing and tuning

Additional Skills (desired):
	Software release cycle
	SCM processes (Rational ClearCase or others)
	Other flavors of Unix (Irix and Solaris)
	Broadcast video


-- 
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."  - Henry Ford
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Scott C. Mellott
WSI Corporation    400 Minuteman Road    Andover, MA 01810
phone: 978.983.6630    http://www.wsi.com
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