Wednesday April 27, 2005

A job opportunity in the lab for students.

I decided this year to open up the way we find the students who work with us for a year to my weblog. Basically if you are a UK student and meet the requirements below and think the job sounds up your street please email me at paul.humphreys@Sun.com by Friday May 6th and attach a covering letter and your CV please. The job starts in July 2005 and runs for one year. It is in Surrey, UK. I would stress you must have some kind of Unix knowledge. Ideally having loaded it on your home PC tinkered with it, setup some kind of services, upgraded it etc. Although I cannot discriminate based upon the sex of the candidate I would say we do not get many female candidates. Over the years we have had very successful female students in the team. So don't be put off by any stereotypes you might have on the word 'lab' or feel it is a closed off, male dominated environment. Anyway here is the Job description:

The student will gain knowledge of Suns hardware range, system and application software. In addition he/she will benefit from working within a highly experienced software/hardware team and indeed be part of that team.

The position will be working in the two labs in the Camberley ( Surrey ) office and the successful candidate will have exposure to Sun's latest hardware and software offerings as they are released.

Tasks undertaken by the student may include the following:

Installation, configuration (hardware and software) , tuning and system administration of lab systems and project work in the lab. This will enable the student to gain hands on experience and knowledge of Unix hardware and associated system software.

There will be oppertunities for students to undertake project work in the lab. These may include ongoing planning and development or expansion of the laboratory infrastructure.

Requirements

Willingness and ability to absorb a large amount of information within a short timeframe.

Ability to co-operate and communicate effectively with other individuals.

The candidate MUST have at least one years experience of using Unix, for example Solaris, Linux or similar. The experience must cover installing Unix and other administration tasks. These would cover network (lan/wan) setup, user adminstration, software upgrades/patching and file system maintenance. You should grade yourself as having a good theoretical and practical understanding of your preferred unix platform.

Experience or knowledge in the following technical areas would be a distinct advantage:

Unix skills (user/administration) (essential)

Networking (essential)

Shell scripting (essential)

Experience of PC or Sun Hardware (essential)

Structured programming techniques (preferable)

Scripting languages (perl/tcl/php) (preferable)

Training in some of these areas WILL be given where required:

Typically: Solaris admin, Sun hardware etc.

We also expect applicants to write us a covering letter to accompany their CV explaining why their skills make them a suitable candidate. The letter should also cover what they would expect to get out of the one year working in Sun in this position.

I look forward to hearing from you ! If you are unsure about the job I am happy for you to talk to one of our existing students.