Senior Unix Administrator

Senior Unix Administrator

Primary Responsibility: Provide daily operations, support, and maintenance for a wide-range of enterprise serves. Responsibilities also include technical project, planning and design work in this area. This will be a six month contract to hire position.

Responsibilities:Provide UNIX systems administration services to internal and external customers, including development teams.Work with very little supervision with respect to scheduling and assignments of tasks with results and progress occasionally reviewed. Work with cross-departmental teams, customer support, applications developers, vendor IT contacts, network and database administrators to resolve issues.Conduct systems and equipment technology assessments, system performance analysis, system integration planning, specifications development, test and evaluation, and system concept formulation/design/analysis.Assist project managers with system planning and documentation.Review moderately complex problem situations and identify areas of opportunities for improvement to processes, procedures or tools.Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of development, test and production environments including backup and log management, system monitoring, and user management.Create and maintain platform/architecture documentation.Be available for non-business hours support and work when necessary.

Requirements:Bachelor degree in Computer Science or relational field; or commensurate work experience.Minimum three to five years experience in system administration involving installation, support and maintenance.In-depth understanding of enterprise operation systems.Experience working with the following products: Solaris, VERITAS Netbackup, VERITAS Volume Manager, and VERITAS Cluster Software (VCS), Shell and Perl scripting. Possess a general understanding of basic networking. NFS, DNS and FTP troubleshooting and maintenance skills.Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.

Preferred Experience:Experience administering systems in an environment utilizing Websphere, Oracle, Linux, and UNIX. SAN storage experience with a focus in EMC/NetApp.Experience with Tomcat/Apache.

** Non-local candidates are welcome to apply; however expenses for onsite interviews and relocation are not available

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