Thursday December 14, 2006

Want a job at Sun for a year ?

If you are a UK student and are doing a gap year starting July next year - for a year and are interested in working in my lab team in Camberley, Surrey then drop me an email with your CV and a covering letter. Here is the job description - and other info.

Exciting Student Placement
at Sun Microsystems !

Description

The student will gain knowledge of Sun's 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 for 1 year starting in July 2007. The successful candidate will
gain 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 opportunities 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
people.

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. This should
include network (LAN/Internet) setup, user administration, 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
We 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.