Specialist II OS & Security

Job Description

nullKey Areas of Responsibilities

• Responsible for Requirements, Design, implementation, test and integration of design Units in accordance with the higher level Requirement and - Design specifications / architectures including alignment with all the relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures the mutual consistency and efficient integration of the separate modules in modular, easy-to-maintain units that meets the product specification.
• Develop in depth knowledge on various OS hardening procedures, product security needs across BUs, working closely with the architects of BUs.
• Responsible to lead the customized OS (Win XP/7/10 embedded) releases for various products.
• Ensure OS releases seamlessly for different H/W configurations across various products in different BUs.
• Track, Analyze & integrate regular security patches to the OSes.
• Provide inputs to the technology roadmap for compute platform (OS & Security) aligning business needs with the current & future trends.
• Support the standardization in the OS & Security baselines, leveraging the commonality in the requirements across businesses, resulting in cost & effort optimization in R&D.
• Has in depth understanding of the complete stack (HW-Virtualization-OS-Security) and the influence of each other.
• Has strong focus in optimization and drives efficiency bringing in automation in the realization steps & release activities.
• Understands and communicates consequences of his/her design on the architecture.
• Determines the Unit interfaces (HW/SW), in close consultation with relevant disciplines.
• Ensures that there is proper documentation for his/her design.
• Defines, executes and takes the lead in concept and feasibility studies with a limited scope to investigate the usability of new technologies.
• Defines test/verification specification documents, performs verification and generates verification reports of hardware components/peripherals.
• Contributes to technology roadmaps and other strategic related activities.
• Contributes to the Work Breakdown Structure, the planning process of his, her area
• Reviews detailed design and critical artefacts from team.
• Support risk management, feature integration, sub-system verification and defect management activities.
• Responsible for quality and stability of the platform in the install base.
• Responsible for bringing in continuous improvements in release quality, release efficiency and cost efficiency.
• Obtains and maintains internal and external network for knowledge build-up.
• Support lead specialist/architect in setting long-term directions for technologies and methodologies including tools used during design phase.
• Establish a strong technical organization and sustain it with highest level of competency.
• Assist management team in identifying current and future competency needs of the team
• Hire, coach and mentor other team members in the R&D teams.
• Collaborate across all cross functions and with customers to deliver solutions that grows business + improves customer satisfaction.
• Performs work in line with the processes defined in the department.

Role Competency:In addition to specific electrical areas specific job knowledge, skills and experience are:

• At least a Bachelor degree in Informatics, Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of extensive knowledge & experience in working with windows internals- installation, configuration, customization
• Good experience in integrating, configuring, optimizing 3rd party software & device drivers as per functional & non-functional requirements.
• Strong experience in scripting languages, MS Build, Perl, PHP, VB Script, Python, Powershell.
• Knowledge on OS security, firewall configurations, STIG, Nessus guidelines & policies.
• Experience in tools like Windows AIK, MDT, Norton Ghost, Win PE.
• Good programming experience in C#.Net.
• Experience in working with tools like Enterprise Architect for UML, TFS, GIT, Clear case, Clear Quest, Caliber RM.
• Strong windows debugging skills, with experience in using various debugging tools to analyze performance, memory & security issues: WinDBG, PerfMon, WireShark etc.
• Configure / implement, test and integrate the operating system.
• Develop and maintain the required (test) tooling and installation scripts conform the departmental procedures.
• Analyze & solve problems on system level related to the operating system.
• Document according to departmental procedures.
• Define and implement build, infrastructure and script improvements that will improve and speed-up the operating system lifecycle
• Ability to test the functionality of the Operating System Products
• Experience working with Scaled Agile

Personal Characteristics:

• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize work.
• Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
• Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency
• Self-starter, quick learner, ability to work independently.
• Ability to solve a wide range of complex technical problems, requiring ingenuity and innovation.
• Ability to work in evolving areas with potentially high ambiguity levels.
• Effectively work locally and with global teams.
• Eagerness to continuously develop self and team.
• Analytical and Creative.
• Good Team player.

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Keyskills :
vb scriptclear questnorton ghostdetail designdevice driversrisk managementcomputer scienceproduct securitydefect managementfeasibility studieswritten communicationdesign specificationsenterprise architect