UNIX Administration

SUMMARY:
Our client in the telecoms is seeking a UNIX Administrator on a contract duration for 12 months.

POSITION INFO:
Planning and execution of environment activities:

• Responsible for UNIX administration with Hardware fixes for servers in Data-center (Exadata, VMs, Individual servers)
• Identifies risks associated with the Environment build up and takes preventative action to ensure requirements, quality and timelines are achieved
• Uses the agreed Environments Tools to produce all deliverables, results and defects.
• Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts with help of monitoring tools.
• System failure analysis and recovery; insuring the consistency and integrity of file systems
• Hardware/software configuration; and management
• Liaison with client / vendor personnel
• Technical support and general troubleshooting
• Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity.

• Unix System Administrator, to help manage Prod & pre-prod environment servers running Linux, Solaris and IBM-AIX operating systems.
• Administration experience (tools, command, shell development)
• Multiprocess/multithread applications experience
• Application Server experience (Forte`, BEA weblogic, jBoss)
• In-depth knowledge of Solaris, Linux, Apache and SAN
• systems maintenance experience in a Unix data Center environment
• Strong experience with system management tools, logical file systems, and client/server environments.
• In-depth hardware configuration knowledge & expertise in Telecom Domain
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated initiative, customer orientation and team work competencies
• Ability to communicate technical issues with non-technical people
• Knowledge of Oracle, RMAN, Veritas NetBackup, IBM Tivoli, Nagios.

• Main Operating Systems:
  • Linux (Redhat & OEL)
  • IBM-AIX
• Main Volume Management/File system:
  • Solaris SDS and ZFS
  • Veritas
  • LVM
  • EXT3
  • AIX LVM

• Desired
  • Main Cluster
  • SUN Cluster 3.2
  • Veritas HA and RAC
  • HP Service Guard

• Backups and purging on request of the project,
• Monitor usage of environments,
• Supplying support throughout the test execution, including out of hours working if required.
• Shell programming