Field Application Engineer - Centurion Verfied

Salary Negotiable Centurion, Gauteng Centurion, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 12-04-2017 4:00:59 PM
10-05-2017 4:00:59 PM
The leading developer of high-performance networking solutions for cloud, data center, service provider and enterprise communications products based in Centurion is currently looking for a QA Engineer
 
The most important skills for this position are C/C++ programming and Linux experience. The candidates must have experience with Linux and must be experienced in C programming. The candidates must also be willing to travel.
 
Responsibilities:
The purpose of this position is to provide all aspects of pre- and post-sales technical support to our OEM customers, ecosystem partners, distributors, ODMs, and CMs. The FAE functions is an integral member of field operations, bridging the sales teams, account managers, factory-based systems engineering and product marketing to provide pre-/post-sales customer technical support
 
Education/Experience: 
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, MS preferred.
  • Five years and more (5y+) of computer networking or software development experience.
 
The ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:
  • Proficient with installing, using, administering and diagnosing Linux systems.
  • Capable of designing, installing and configuring networks including routers, switches, load balancers, virtualized servers, VPN gateways, firewalls, IDS/IPS and others.
  • Proficient with network protocols, tunneling, security and associated cryptography, e.g. IPSec and SSL.
  • Able to configure and execute network benchmarks, diagnose and correct installation and performance issues as needed.
  • Ability to design, implement or modify as needed to accomplish goals, shell scripts, Makefiles, Python programs, C or C++.
  • Working knowledge of revision control systems, Mercurial, Git or SVN.
  • Experience and working knowledge of OpenStack is highly desirable.
  • Software design and implementation experience, in C, C++, Python or Java.
  • Experience with low level programming, embedded devices, NPUs, SoCs, IXP micro engines.
  • Programming experience with device drivers. Knowledge of device driver architectures and internals.
  • Linux kernel programming experience.
  • Knowledge of common system hardware interfaces (PCIe, SPI3/4, GMII, I2C, DDR SDRAM, TCAM, others).
 
Essential Functions:
  • Provide technical support to advocate products to customers during the design-win cycle
  • Creation of application notes, technical papers, technical specifications and supporting software examples
  • Design review in development of customer hardware schematics, test software, device drivers, API's, and application software
  • On site customer design support and consultation
  • Creation and/or presentation of technical material for customer meetings
  • Creation, demonstration and benchmarking of products, including software, development tools and reference hardware
  • Providing technical training to local sales staff, channel partners, manufacturer reps and customers
  • Create and review technical documents, specifications, manuals, application notes, whitepapers, product briefs and other collateral
  • Assist in new product and technology definitions
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex customer support issues in a timely manner
  • Ability to collaborate with global team members in various time zones
  • Replicate issues and testing customer configurations in a lab environment

Recruiter: CompuJobs