Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Senior Technical Staff Job Description

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Senior technical staff provides in-depth knowledge of the product to support and aid customers in the selection, evaluation and integration of storage (NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMe-MI, NAND Flash, DDR and embedded processors) solutions (Accelerators, HBAs, Bridges etc.).

Senior Technical Staff Duties & Responsibilities

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Develop packaging, deployment documentations and Puppet scripts for final builds to the Operations Team (to be used for production deployments)
Primary liaison with direct customers (Operations and other service providers), ensuring that the Integration & Staging environments have the appropriate builds/patches/updates
Contribute to design and implementation of various features of vCloud Usage Meter product
Work closely with all stakeholders (product manager, scrum master, developers, test engineers, technical writer, operations and support staff) to get features implemented in an agile environment end-end
Develop and write Automated Tests and code coverage activities
Independently leading the design and development of software components
Identify the potential integration/Interop challenges from reading PRD and functional spec
Working within a collaborative team setting with other developers to architect, design, implement and integrate new and enhanced features with the highest possible quality
Profiling and optimization of remoting software performance on Windows
Help prioritize, plan, and track projects

Senior Technical Staff Qualifications

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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Technical Staff

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Education for Senior Technical Staff

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Employers hiring for the senior technical staff job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Technology, Computer

Skills for Senior Technical Staff

Desired skills for senior technical staff include:

Agile development process
Artificial intelligence topics and applications
Data flow
NAND flash architectures and features
NAND flash operation and architecture
PCI Express interface
Programming models
Security topics and applications
Storage and NAND flash protocols
Area of engineering expertise

Desired experience for senior technical staff includes:

Prior work with virtualization technologies, networking is desired
Prior work on cloud management platforms using EC2/S3 APIs, or CloudFoundry, vCloud Director/Eucalyptus is desired
Bachelor or Master of Engineering degree, or equivalent with 4+ years of experience in automation, performance, or scale testing
BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, Master is preferred
7+ years of experience in developing and/or testing in an enterprise or system level environment
Strong experience in gathering test/use case requirement from customers, PMs and reading spec., familiar with risk based test design, test cases (automation/manual) implementation and execution, test resource/planning knowledge Integration and InterOp experience

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Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior technical staff. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior technical staff
  • Work with product managers to define product roadmaps, translate roadmap into functional specs, and designs
  • Responsible for architecture, design, extensibility of products
  • Participate and influence code reviews, design reviews for robust and scalable products
  • Architect/Design/Code/Test/Automate major modules of product
  • Understand and test features of Identity Manager
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product and Program Management and Vendors to coordinate requirements, plan capacity and technical specifications
  • The resource will be responsible for any new features or enhancement in the desktop sync(Windows/Mac)
  • Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the SDDC running in the public cloud as a service
  • Understand third party products and components involved in a hybrid cloud and ensure they work seamlessly with the SDDC as a service
  • Design and implement tools and a framework for software updates and upgrades and develop or leverage automation tools for continuous integration/continuous development and continuous troubleshooting
Qualifications for senior technical staff
  • Exposure to Bug Tracking Tools (viz
  • Experience working with global teams highly desirable
  • Experience working in an agile development environment highly desirable
  • Hands on experience with Selenium web driver
  • Proficient in Build and CI
  • Proficient in the area of performance engineering, bottleneck analysis, application profiling, code optimization, capacity planning
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Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior technical staff. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior technical staff
  • Responsible for developing the team helping team members with their career development
  • Envisions and executes the integration of several large COTS and custom solutions
  • Develops solutions adhering to the development best practices
  • Provides design guidance for integration solutions
  • Contributes to the health (stability & performance) of solutions including rotational on-call support
  • Participates in translating business needs/ideas into technical solutions
  • Performs code reviews to ensure quality of development and adherence to standards
  • Work with engineering team and global technical support team to resolve customer related issues and/or product defects related to VxRail
  • Proactive management of escalations, contribution to product design and sustaining
  • Develop and enhance manageability and servicibility in VxRail
Qualifications for senior technical staff
  • Strong knowledge of advanced programming constructs like multi-threading, memory management
  • We believe that the Continuous integration and Test automation is the key to fast paced, high quality delivery
  • BTech/MTech Degree or equivalent in Computer Science
  • 6 – 8 years of experience with significant depth around designing and programming enterprise class products
  • Expertise in Java, Spring frameworks, REST APIs, Hibernate, JDBC
  • Comfortable working with version control systems like Git
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Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a senior technical staff. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior technical staff
  • Communicate with all stakeholders/team members and provide updates
  • Design, write and deliver software tests for deployment on the public and hybrid cloud
  • Identify and resolve issues and bottlenecks with Infrastructure and Platform that runs SDDC stack
  • Develop full stack web applications using technologies such as Python/Django/NodeJS and front-end web technologies like Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3
  • Conducting black/gray-box, functional, system, stress testing activities, and API testing activities
  • Identify testability requirements, communicate technical dependencies and concerns/issues effectively
  • Develop detailed testing approaches/plans for specific test areas and product lines
  • Design automation test cases from scratch or based on existing manual processes
  • Support Automation framework including core libraries development using Python or/and Selenium
  • Assist team members in determining appropriate quality goals and acceptance criteria
Qualifications for senior technical staff
  • Programming experience and knowledge of writing automation frameworks is a must
  • Expert knowledge in Shell scripting and working knowledge of at least one of these languages – Ruby, Python, and Java or Scala
  • Experience with automated deployment and configuration tools like CFengine, Puppet, or Chef, is highly desired
  • Knowledge of cloud service providers Google Cloud, Amazon S3
  • Masters degree or PhD in computer science/engineering or math
  • Strong background in multi-tier or scale out distributed application architectures such as Hadoop and Cassandra
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Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a senior technical staff. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior technical staff
  • Communicate quality issues to suppliers as needed and drive supplier root cause and appropriate Corrective and Preventive Actions for device failures at system level integration and production
  • Early supplier engagement on technology roadmaps to ensure product specification and quality targets are met at system integration level, establishing standards baseline for the optical component or module category
  • Participate in Supplier audit planning, evaluate suppliers quality inspection procedure and develop appropriate inspection methods
  • Execute Supplier audits, evaluate suppliers quality management capability and drive supplier for improvements
  • Provide technical leadership and expertise within the TQC team for supplier qualification and quality performance monitoring and reviews
  • Provide key support in design and code reviews and mentoring other team members
  • Suggest and enforce development best practices, focus on enhancements and improvements to the CI/CD pipeline and evolve test strategies to build strong developer feedback loops
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional distributed Engineeringteams
  • Contribute in SaaS transformation of solutions on new generation of cloud platforms
  • Design and develop cloud vendor neutral solutions
Qualifications for senior technical staff
  • Experienced with design and architectural specifications
  • Experience with Puppet/Chef or any other configuration management tool - plus
  • Experienced with rails a plus
  • Hands-on experience of developing modern enterprise applications with Java
  • Hands-on experience of Java server backend
  • Experience in Java Spring framework will be a plus
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Senior Technical Staff Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior technical staff. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior technical staff
  • Research, conceptualize and develop new products and features from grounds up
  • Building up high-performance, highly available & reliable platform products, and deploying them in distributed environments to enable predictive capabilities for businesses
  • Collaborate on scalability problems involving access to massive amounts of customer interactions
  • Be part of next gen distributed file systems challenges, emerging protocols & standards
  • Work on next gen advanced format, next gen flash storage, efficient space reclamation solutions
  • Able to accurately define and formulate problems from complex situations
  • Continuously innovate ways to deliver high quality products to customers
  • Contribute to the definition and implementation of key processes and participate in continuous improvement activities like RCCA, project retrospectives, and related Initiatives
  • Define/develop/evangelise adoption of new tools and practices to improve quality and efficiency
  • Analyse and root-cause issues and report product defects and collaborate with other engineering groups towards resolution
Qualifications for senior technical staff
  • Should have experience building in a cross-platform environment
  • Deep expertise in designing, building, testing , operating, and troubleshooting storage solutions in a data center and service provider environment
  • Expertise in configuring and managing EMC VNX storage and Avamar backup solutions
  • Experience in object storage and Disaster Recovery To Cloud(DR2C) solutions
  • 8+ years of storage design, build out, administration and testing experience in managing enterprise data centers or Service provider environments
  • BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering is required (MS preferred)

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