LINUX Engineer

Description

Job Responsibilities 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. 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 Candidate Qualifications Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree and/or experience Minimum of five years of system administration experience in a UNIX production business environment with substantial knowledge of the UNIX operating system, with extensive experience on Solaris 8/10, and Linux (SLES 9/10 or RedHat) operating systems. The system administrator will work on, IBM hardware (IBM System X x346, x366, x3650, x3850, HS20, HS40, HS21. HS22). Hardware knowledge on the different types of components of servers is required, including assembly, defining configurations for upgrades. 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, and Perl preferred. 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.Working Knowledge of LDAP , DNS. Experience with Remedy or other ticketing systems preferred 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. Experience with HPC environments a plus. (torque, condor, pbs, sun grid engine, platform lsf, platform symphony)