UNIX Administrator Job Description
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UNIX Administrator Job Description
- Monitor status and respond to system and storage events
- Engage in system design and proof of concepts
- Part of the team to provide 24 x 7 x 365 support on a rotating on-call schedule
- Analyze system utilization and trending to plan for system/application/storage growth
- Perform system maintenance and upgrades on IT maintenance weekends
- Helps develop, document, and implement operating standards
- Create and maintain procedures and system runbooks within a wiki structure
- Configuration of virtualized I/O subsystems
- Audit and remediate OS related security issues, patching schedule
- Aids in installation of applications as required by development and application teams
- Detailed knowledge and expertise of AIX/Linux and Solaris infrastructure, load balancing, clustering, network & host security, and relevant protocols (SMTP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, NFS)
- Expertise with Volume management and file systems
- Detailed knowledge of Storage connectivity platforms (for example, Veritas)
- Understanding of virtualisation technologies, for example - ESX, HyperV, vSphere
- Hardware configuration and modification (IBM)
- Detailed knowledge and expertise of Linux and Solaris infrastructure, load balancing, clustering, network & host security, and relevant protocols (SMTP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, NFS) is essential
UNIX Administrator Job Description
- Troubleshoots and resolves any IT service issues related to operating systems and servers
- Work with vendor to troubleshoot and patching needs
- Conduct and lead meetings and technical sessions with various groups as part of technical services delivery and to be able to follow up meetings with recommendations to management, action items and implementation plans
- Develop, document and implement systems and application software installation and upgrades
- 4 Experience with proactive monitoring and automation Implementation and design of CommVault solutions for end-to-end backup of client data Knowledge of VTL (configuration and troubleshooting) , online backups for databases, mail servers
- Analyzing skills of various backup failure errors in Data Domain and Networker
- Proficiency in Log Analysis and Troubleshooting of complex Backup Issues
- Should have thorough knowledge on restore procedure of various types including File system, database, VMs
- Participate and manage calls with onsite escalation points/Bridge calls/Customers/RCA reviews/High critical incident meetings
- Administer Infrastructure
- You will lead the support and efficient operation of shared services
- Experience on a production environment is desired
- HACMP / vioserver knowledge are a plus
- Three years’ experience supporting a Linux/Solaris Server environment
- Linux system performance check using various tools and commands like top, netstat, vmstat, w, who, uptime, ps, mpstat, iostat, sar
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree/work experience
UNIX Administrator Job Description
- Lead a Global UNIX server operations team delivering services that exceed 99.9% uptime and provides 24×7 operations and support
- Work with the existing UNIX team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment
- Add/Delete UNIX users, integrate users into Lawson security and custom security models
- Maintain install and build documents
- Maintain as-build documentation of the environment – configuration diagram
- 3rd party escalation
- Restore servers in the case of a system failure
- Ensure infrastructure conforms to IT security standards and Policies
- Lead and participate on project teams on tasks and activities within the supported environments
- Support Open Source proprietary applications
- Suse manager administration, exposure to yum, zypper, rpm• Security hardening• Experience in performing IMM/ILO administration• Experience in performing vmware administration• Experience in performing firmware upgrade in Linux Platform
- Responsible for operational support and maintenance of 4,000+ servers located globally, running predominantly Redhat Enterprise Linux with some Solaris
- Experience with Puppet and shell scripting
- Provide a stable and up to date UNIX environment in order to support multiple applications
- Perform day-to-day UNIX System Administration functions, including OS installations, account administration, volume management, patch management, and hardware and OS problem resolution
- Monitor and tune Linux/Unix environments to provide acceptable performance, availability, and meet service level agreements
UNIX Administrator Job Description
- Work as member of a senior team to solve Tier 2 items and be conduit for issues between Tier1 and Tier2 teams
- Responsibilities may sometimes require working evenings and weekends
- Configuration Management – Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt
- Manage end to end Project Management - Plan/Manage/Execute/Escalate key projects/Optimization streams
- This position will assist with implementing new system hardware and software, and provide input for developing local operating procedures and policies as needed
- This position will need to be adept at monitoring the ongoing operation of the servers and providing utilization reports to identify problems and corrective actions as needed
- Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
- Work with other IT groups, business leads, consultants and other stakeholders to develop, test, and maintain procedures for Disaster Recovery (DR)
- This position will plan, execute and implement new system hardware and software and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed
- Provide oversight to on site field resources
- Solaris (version 10+), required, 3+ years
- AIX (version 5.3+), required, 1+ years
- Red Hat Satellite Server administration knowledge
- Candidate must have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Understand networking and load balancing concepts
- Be able to write and modify basic scripts for automation and administration of Operating System environments
UNIX Administrator Job Description
- Responsible for maintaining UNIX Operating System to provide optimum performance and system availability
- Verify backups and backup procedures
- Assist with implementing new system hardware and software
- Provide input for developing local operating procedures and policies
- Will need to be adept at monitoring the ongoing operation of the servers
- Providing utilization reports to identify problems and corrective actions
- Will be the primary administrator responsible for all facets related to upgrading the Lawson Financials Environment and Applications
- Create, maintain, and support a wide variety of shell Korn/Posix/Bash/Perl scripts
- Maintain awareness of project status, identifying conflicts and proactively communicating them to the appropriate individuals / departments
- Perform activities in compliance with PCI, IT standards and procedures, audit requirements, reliability, quality and security
- Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of related systems administration experience
- Operating systems installation and troubleshooting, disk management, backup and recovery, network resource management, user support, and application installation and troubleshooting
- No burdensome rules and regulations
- KVM / virtualization skills
- Proficient in project planning and using project and documentation tools
- UNIX tools knowledge