PLEASANTON, CA, USA
28 days ago
IT - Consultant, Infrastructure-Server Administration, Linux Admin
Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com Job Description – Unix Administrator

Key Tasks and Responsibilities-

* Provide global production support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributed infrastructure while on shift.

* Address incidents picked up by the monitoring systems alerting on global Unix & Linux infrastructure within a timely manner.

* Resolve problem tickets allocated to team on central management tools (e.g. Service Now / Remedy)

* Implement requests for service as generated in manual and automated ticketing systems (e.g. SNOW, etc)

* Regular verbal and written communication with business partners and other support teams to clarify details of incidents or service requests to maintain production stability and meet established SLAs.

* Liaise with vendors to analyze crash dumps, or infrastructure problems

* Operational knowledge of key technologies, such RHEL 5/6/7, LVM/VxVM, VCS/RHCS, NetBackup, Blade technology, SAN/NAS storage / HP, Dell, IBM Servers.

* Provide projects support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributed infrastructure, preferably worked in Storage Migration, DC Exit, OS Migration, Unix estate wide remediation projects and BCM/Isolation tests, Power down activities.

* Experience in supporting UNIX based distributed computing environment with a large number of systems (500+)

* Good written and spoken English, able to communicate in English with remote teams.

* Strong analytical and logical skills.

* Team work, ability to contribute to and work in a team, as well as at times step up and lead a number of people when handling problems or incidents

* Strong inter-personal and communication skills, capable of writing/contributing to technical knowledge articles

* Independent problem solving skills and effective time management

* A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system, preferable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6.

* Good troubleshooting skills with knowledge of key operating system concepts such as paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts, disk management/partitioning, auto mounting etc.

* Understanding and working knowledge of authentication and naming services, including NIS, LDAP with Kerberos, Power Broker, DNS, NTP, etc

* Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts, such as NFS, routing, troubleshooting network related issues.

* Fundamental skills with Volume Manager, File System and Cluster server.

* Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (for example Tk, Perl, ksh, sh, csh)

* Basic understanding of eCommerce and Retail infrestructure with previous job experience a plus.

Skillset

* Knowledge of SAN and NAS administration and management

* Knowledge of VMWare ESX

* Knowledge of Volume Manager concepts and operations

* Knowledge in the standard ITIL processes.
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