Unix Systems Administrator

Description

UNIX Support Provide UNIX system and servers support to business users. Includes troubleshooting problems or projects related activities. Handle escalated issues, and provide technical resolutions to onsite staff members. Offhours pager duty and onsite support is required, as well as occasional weekend and evening work. Projects Work with guidance on several concurrent projects in a highly dynamic environment . Assume the technical responsibility on multiple projects simultaneously; interface with customers in order to resolve technical system, application, and end user issues. Integration Support the integration and implementation of Unix systems and applications, and provide operational support for same. Installation Install and configure Sun Solaris Servers and related systems; assist business users and Unix Engineers with the setup and installation of their applications and tests within the Unix environment. Engineering Work with other technical teams, gather requirements; determine, document, and propose viable solutions against these requirements. With guidance from Senior System Administrators, plan and implement these solutions in cooperation other system administrators and technical teams. Problem Resolution Perform root cause analysis and determine cause of problems in order to develop specific solution to an issue. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree and/or experience Minimum of Eight years of system administration experience in a UNIX production business environment with substantial knowledge of the UNIX operating system, and Solaris 10 experience on a variety of Sun Hardware. Must have excellent skills in Solaris 10, Linux OS. Basic knowledge of SAN is a must. Must have excellent skills in Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Filesystem and Veritas Cluster Services. Basic knowledge of SAN is a must. eg Connecting the host (Solaris and Linux hosts) to the SANs (EMC and Hitachi SAN arrays) The system administrator will work on Sun hardware (e.g., E250, E420R, E5500, E6500, Vl120, V280, V480, V4800, V4900, V6800 and V6900 models). Hardware knowledge on the different types of components of servers is required, including assembly, replacing hardware, installing new hardware, defining configurations for upgrades. Will configure and support multiple domains on SunFire midrange servers, and must be familiar with Sun Microsystems methods of dynamically reconfiguring boards and components on these servers. Will perform tasks related to managing SUN Disk Storage. This includes using Veritas Volume Manager command line commands to create, grow, and/or mirror new volumes and file systems. Must be able to perform this work in accordance with our standards and demonstrate the knowledge and experience with Veritas and RAID devices to apply these standards.. Run UNIX commands from UNIX shells, be able to operate in csh or ksh environment, review or write shell scripts and understand general shell scripting practices. Must have knowledge of programming or writing shell scripts in languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, or Perl. Set up network interfaces on servers, trouble shoot, and resolve network issues related to the servers. Must understand basic networking items such as Ethernet, ARP, and TCP/IP. In their normal duties the system administrator will be called on to perform the following customer service functions setting customer expectations and working with customers to achieve best results; demonstrate cooperative teaming skills to achieve results that cannot be derived from the system administrators actions alone; and the ability to collaborate within a cross functional team.