Engineer - Development and Operations

Sirius XM Radio Inc. is America's satellite radio company. SiriusXM broadcasts more than 135 channels of commercial free music, and premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic and weather to more than 20 million subscribers. We are one of the world's largest pure-play audio entertainment company and we are among the largest subscription media companies in the United States. SiriusXM broadcasts to subscribers everywhere they want to listen in cars, on boats, in the home or office, and through a wide range of mobile devices.

SiriusXM offers an impressive array of content that spans virtually all genres and interests, including Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell, Jamie Foxx, Barbara Walters, Opie & Anthony, Bob Edwards, Chris \"Mad Dog\" Russo, Jimmy Buffett, The Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, and Bob Dylan, among others. SiriusXM is the leader in sports programming as the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, Major League Baseball®, NASCAR®, NBA, NHL®, and PGA TOUR® and offers major college sports.

We have arrangements with every major automaker for installation of satellite radio in their vehicles. Our products are available through shop.siriusxm.com and at retail locations nationwide. SiriusXM programming is also available at siriusxm.com/whatson, and on Apple iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry and Android-powered mobile devices using the SiriusXM Premium Online App.

SiriusXM provides premium real-time video, traffic, weather, data and information services for subscribers in cars, trucks, RVs, boats and aircraft through SIRIUS Backseat TV™, XM NavTraffic®, SIRUS Traffic™, XM Nav Weather™, and SIRIUS Marine™, among others.

Are you a DevOps? Someone who loves to be both a Developer and a SysAdmin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps Become a member of a small team managing and administering a suite of mission-critical custom application servers. Our department is responsible for the tracking and controlling the status of every Sirius receiver unit from point of manufacturer through the life of the product.



You will be responsible for mission critical functions relating to the configuration and maintenance of the Sirius XM Conditional Access systems. You will be monitoring and tuning the performance of the infrastructure, as well as working on the daily operations. You will provide comprehensive technical support and conducts tests. The DevOps will identify and correct bottlenecks in the system, and implement performance-enhancing technologies. This position deals with highly confidential, proprietary information.



Duties and Responsibilities:

Analyze application data integrity and remediate as necessary
Install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot custom application servers (primarily Windows-based, with some Unix/Linux)
Write and maintain administrative and SQL scripts to automate management of file transfers, alerts, data checks, etc.
Work with Network Operations staff to arrange and configure secure and reliable local networking and VPN connections in multi-site environment
Take part in 24x7 on-call rotation, monitoring servers and responding to alerts
Participate in application acceptance testing
Synch production, development and test environments
Configure and monitor remote Disaster Recovery site
Documentation of configurations, incidents, procedures and policies
Supervisory Responsibilities:

There are no supervisory responsibilities associated with this job
Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years experience supporting Windows servers in a mission-critical environment
2+ years supporting Microsoft SQL Server environment
2+ years of scripting in a dynamic language (VB, python, ruby, bash, perl)
Requirements and General Skills:

Administrative Scripting: real-world experience in writing scripts to manage administrative tasks (VB, python, ruby, bash, perl)
Excellent SQL scripting skills
Windows Administration: Active Directory, Group Policy, installation, patch management
Hardware Maintenance: troubleshooting/replacing drives, memory, power-supply, etc...
SQL Server Support: Queries, Report generation, backups, restores, configuration and monitoring of SQL Agent jobs
Linux/Unix administration
Excellent command-line skills
Familiarity with principles of cryptography/security a plus
Highly self-motivated and able to work independently
Strong written and verbal communications ability
Technical Skills:

Excellent knowledge of at least one of the following:
VB, python, ruby, bash, perl
Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL and SQL scripting
Windows Server and Linux/Unix

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/V/D


To APPLY go to:

https://careers-siriusxm.icims.com/jobs/6362/job