Software Developer - Storage Device Drivers

Introduction

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Your Role And Responsibilities

AIX is the leading open standards-based UNIX operating system from IBM that provides scalable, secure, and robust infrastructure solution for enterprise customers. As a Storage Device Driver Developer, you will be responsible for

• Design, development & support of new feature functions, enabling new adapters from various vendors for AIX Operating System.
• Work with Product Managers, Senior leaders, and customers to understand the Business needs and implement the same in AIX.
• Adhere to the AIX development process and ensure successful delivery for the respective component.
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 3 to 12 years of experience in Storage Device Driver development.
• Strong proficiency in C programming
• Experience in Algorithms, Data Structures/File Structures
• Strong skills in Unix/Linux internals – Hands-on in multi-threading, synchronization, interrupt handling, kernel memory management, DMA, IOMMU & Kernel programming etc.
• Hands-on and working/implementation experience in Storage Device Drivers –
• Design and development of UNIX/Linux Operating System Device Drivers for Storage adapters.
• Development experience of Storage Protocols such as Fibre Channel, FCoE, NVMeoF/FC, NVMeoF/TCP, SAS, SATA, ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, LLDP, USB, Multipath IO etc
• Experience with IO /Storage virtualization stack, NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) and channelization/multiple-queues etc
• Experience with PCIe and protocol analyser and trace analysis.
• Familiarity with Storage/SAN concepts.
• Proven Debugging, troubleshooting device drivers and Problem-Solving skills
• Proven Interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Interact with customers, understand their requirements, and add new feature functions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across multiple locations (worldwide).