Application System Engineer

Description

SUMMARY Software Engineer B.S. or higher with 5 or more years of development experience with an interest in performing evaluation and certification of centrally supported development tools, developer oriented support as subject matter expert, and responsibilities for integrating developer facing technologies into our standard build environment. The candidate must possess a working knowledge of the technologies indicated and subject matter expertise in a subset of the technologies. This is an engineering, tools integration, and support position. The position is for an individual contributor reporting to the Automation Build Tools PM to develop and provide tier 2 support on our automated build, packaging, and deployment system.The experience matrix below is highly comprehensive but does not cover all technical areas. It is a guide and sufficiently broad to enhance the opportunity for identifying a candidate with a good crosssection of these skills. Preference will be given to candidates possessing both development and tools engineering experience.Five or more years of experience on one or more of the following UNIX Platforms Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, AIX, Sun/Sparc Three or more years of experience in Java and any exposure to C/C++, C# or Fortran. Corresponding competency with all the following build processes/tools Make, ANT, NANT, and Maven builds processes (technology appropriate), One of IBM Build Forge, Continuum, Cruise Control, or similar Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) system with Continuous Integration, Knowledge/Experience with iterative development processes such as Agile (and tools that support the process) Modeling tools (IBM Rational RSM, RSA), Architecture/Reuse (e.g. IBM Rational RSA) Any experience as a contributor or moderator in the open source community considered a plus. Corresponding experience with IDEs and tools Forte, Eclipse, Netbeans, Rational Application Developer or similar plugin based IDE Debugging (e.g. Junit, others), Memory Leak Tools (e.g. Purify), Performance Profiling Tools (e.g. JProbe). Static Code Analysis a plus (Fortify, Findbugs) And corresponding experience writing and deploying applications onto one or more of the following application servers Websphere, Weblogic, WASCE, equivalent. And corresponding experience with any development frameworks/APIs and other technologies examples cited Web Services (SOAP and REST), UI/RIA (Flash/Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight), Table/Chart/Graph (e.g. JClass), Spring, Hibernate, C/C++ Object Encapsulation (e.g. Rogue Wave Source Pro, other STL), Math/Statistics (e.g. Visual Numerics) Preference given to candidates with experience in one or more of TiBCO ESB, AquaLogic BPMFive or more years of experience in two or more of the following scripting languages Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell (any, KSH, Bourne preferred), Three or more years working with relational databases Sybase, Oracle, with Erwin, Toad, SQL Developer, or other database design tools. Comprehensive knowledge in one or more of the following package formats System V, RPM, BFF Experience with any major source control systems Subversion, Perforce, Clearcase, Visual Source Safe, other