Principal Engineer - Burlington, MA or Alpharetta, GA

Where:  Nokia USA , Burlington, MA  OR Alpharetta, GA


Principal Systems Engineer/Application and Tool Developer
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The Role
This role will perform evaluation, development, deployment, and support of increasingly sophisticated automated services management systems. The successful candidate will work under the guidance of a Development Manager with a mission to rapidly and continuously improve Nokia’s capability to deploy mobile and web-based consumer and platform services.

To succeed in this role, the potential candidate will need a solid background and success in developing tools in a Linux and UNIX based systems environment with dynamic and scripting languages, TCP/IP networking skills, and a sense of customer centered support. This role requires someone who loves to instrument systems and extract every bit of available data for performance optimization and debugging.

Required Skills/Experience:
• Bachelors or higher in a relevant discipline
• 5+ years of success in JavaScript (ExtJS Framework), PHP , Perl OR Python
• 2+ years of experience working / developing on Unix or Linux based operating systems.
• 2+ years of working knowledge in Object oriented programming, SQL, databases and large data sets.
• 2+ years of success in development of commercial or open source service management and monitoring tools in Linux Internet Hosted Operations Environments.
• Experience in development of commercial or open source service management and monitoring tools
• Thorough understanding of tool building/development in operations environments (i.e. CMDB, Asset management…)
• Working Knowledge of SDLC methodologies, TCP/IP Protocol and application services
• High level of ability to understand and communicate technical knowledge in a team environment
• Experience working with source control, and continuous integration systems such as SVN, and Hudson.
• Occasional travel (less than 25%)

Preferred Skills

• BSC in Computer Science and/or Masters

• 10 + years in an Operations environment building server and tools for large scale data delivery

• 5-10 years of full SDLC

• Understanding of high availability system design

• Understanding of network based technologies such as Load balancers, and Global DNS.

• Developed or operated TCP/IP network protocols or infrastructure

• Architecture of Internet Services and/or Datacenter infrastructure

• Past success in developing frameworks

• Extensive management of Linux and UNIX-like systems knowledge

Apply online at Nokia Careers;  Job Code Res000002PX
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