UNIX Operations team is searching for a candidate who is proficient within a LINUX (Red Hat) and UNIX (Solaris) environment. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience within systems administration, along with knowledge of physical infrastructure and hardware such as Dell PowerEdge M/R servers, and Sun/Oracle T-Series. This candidate will provide UNIX support for the UNIX estate of around 400 servers. We are looking for a good communicator and a problem-solving individual. Responsibility will encompass both operational support of the UNIX estate, system maintenance (OS patching), and storage migration work where necessary.
Job Requirements – Essential:
- RHEL Linux 7 administration/patch management.
- Solaris 11 administration/patch management.
- LDOM management on T7 hardware.
- Linux Server builds and custom configurations.
- Performance tuning of Oracle database servers.
- Server Security vulnerability management.
- SolarWinds monitoring.
- Ansible playbook and Puppet module development.
- Satellite 6 management and upgrades.
- Ansible tower management and upgrades.
- VMware operational knowledge.
- Good Knowledge on automation.
- Good Knowledge on server migrations.
- Good troubleshooting skills.
- Strong skills in TCP/IP networking, network topology and firewalled environments.
Nice To Have:
- Storage management basics.
- Database administration basics.
- Windows administration basics.
- Cloud integration basics.
- Veritas NetBackup management.
- Good understanding of applications like Informatica, Cognos, Splunk and HP ALM.
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer Responsibilities:
- Advanced system tunings to application specific requirements. Systems standardization and automation.
- Keeping the UNIX environment compliant with the technology roadmap, such as OS & hardware upgrades, 3rd party software upgrades.
- Work on incident tickets and resolve in a timely manner.
- Remediate Secunia OS vulnerabilities as required by regular security audits.
- Perform quarterly patching of RedHat and Solaris servers to ensure systems are compliant and pass strict PCI security requirements as dictated by regular audits from security team.
- Interface with IT and business clients at all levels of the organization.
- Rotating on-call Unix/Linux support in a 24X7 environment.
- Participate in evaluation and POC of new backup infrastructure.
- Research and development of new technology as required by business initiatives and management vision.
- Documentation of work.