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Unix Administrator
One of our Fortune 100 financial clients is looking for on Unix Administrator to work out of their Irving, TX.
Job Description
This candidate will be working in a large dynamic environment; as such, this is very much a hands-on position and the engineer will be expected to work with the team involved in the day-to-day operation and maintenance of a large distributed AIX and Solaris environment. The ideal candidate will be happy to share their knowledge with the team as well as learn from them, and is looking for a fast-paced, open environment where change management and best practices are important and necessary. The candidate should have experience supporting technology in a financial institution or other high pressure environment. A successful candidate will have a client focused attitude; which is, technology enables the client / business / corporation to sell their product or service. Provide support in the following areas: AIX/Solaris/Linux platforms with specific experience in AIX 6.X,7.X, Sun Solaris 10 Systems Operational Support, server virtualization, Enterprise Netbackup, Enterprise Sun LDAP for UNIX systems and applications including various existing applications. 1. Perform Unix Systems Administration for AIX, Enterprise Sun Solaris 10 Systems to include: AIX 695/795/780 , Sun 25K/SunFire series, /T5120/T5220/T5240/T5440 , Vioclient MPLPARs and SCLPARs 2. Maintain UNIX infrastructure environment at datacenters during business hours and off-hours; troubleshoot Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP. Strong AIX 6.X and 7.X LPAR (MPLPAR and SCLPAR) experience! Install, configure, and maintain UNIX server equipment, disk arrays, tape libraries, virtual tape libraries and terminal servers; UNIX routine operation functions; maintain high end UNIX servers M9000 and current and new UNIX projects. 4. Provide data protection, recovery and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery and business continuity methods in UNIX environment. 5. Perform routine backup and recovery for data protection and integrity for UNIX servers; monitor UNIX infrastructure which consists of complex sets of equipment and system software; provide proactive remediation. 6. Perform proactive monitoring for high availability, System data protection, backup and restore, UNIX central authentication, user account management, disk storage management, hardware and OS maintenance, and application maintenance. 7. Install, configure and maintain highly optimized Virtualized UNIX environment using Zone/Container, LDOM and VMware virtualization technologies
skill Requirements-
Strong inter-personal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals and papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customer/client audiences or making professional presentations, work closely with upper management. Ability to solve problems quickly and completely. Ability to identify tasks which should be automated and then write tools to automate them. Solid understanding of the Unix based operations system: understands paging and swapping, interprocess communication, devices and device drivers, can perform system analysis and tuning. Ability to program in at least one, preferably two administrative languages, (shell, Perl, Tk) and port C programs from one platform to another, write small C programs. Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environments, understanding the principals of routing, client/server programming, and the design of consistent network-wide filesystems. 1. Five to Ten years experience providing Solaris/AIX/ Linux systems administration support for large scale complex unix environments. 2. Cluster Technology, Veritas Storage foundation and other High Availability techniques in the UNIX environment; Veritas NetBackup. 3. Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager and ZFS. 5. Shell scripting and/or Perl scripting experience. 6. System level support for Oracle application and database Servers, Java application servers, Websphere or other large-scale databases in a UNIX environment. 7. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in UNIX environment; EMC storage array based SAN environment. 8. Knowledge of Entry-Level, Midrange and High-End Enterprise servers and disk arrays. 9. Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting AIX/Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, HTTP.
To apply for this position and setup an interview with the client please click on apply and send in your resume along with your contact info. For any further queries please feel free to contact:
Sourav Misra
Phone: 973-867-0443
Email: sourav.misra@collabera.com
*Job Title:* Unix Administrator
*Job Code:* 5443_UA_TX
*Domain:* IT Services
*Location:* Irving, Texas, US
*Pay rate:* DOE
*Duration:* 1 Year
*Experience:* 3 - 5 years
*Recruiter:* Sourav Misra
*Phone:* 973-867-0443
*Email-ID:* sourav.misra@collabera.com;
*URL:* www.collabera.com