Job Description: Client is seeking as UNIX Administrator with excellent technical, process and automation skills to be part of High-Performance Cloud Operations Team.
As an Infrastructure Administrator, this person is responsible for the daily administration of Linux and Unix servers in a business application environment.
This includes general system administration tasks, software and hardware support, system configuration, system monitoring.
This person must have excellent Linux/Unix administration experience, with customer relation skills.
Candidate should be able to work with business application administrators, helping troubleshoot their applications and guide them with best practices.
Candidate must be able to express thoughts clearly and capable of working in a team or as a sole contributor.
Individual should be self-motivated with very good communication skills.
Primary point responsible for the overall operability, resiliency, performance, and capacity of owned production services.
What youll do System Administration: This person would be responsible for the day-to-day administration of all Linux/Unix based servers.
This includes monitoring the trouble ticket queue, system troubleshooting, hardware and software system changes, scripting, patching, system performance monitoring, system sizing, system integration, upgrade implementation, and hardware diagnostics.
Application support: This person would work with application administrators to help troubleshoot and fine-tune applications and if required guide application administrators in best practices related to using the underlying UNIX infrastructure.
Documentation: Maintain all system documentation.
What you need to succeed Excellent hands on experience with RHEL/Suse/AIX including lvm device configuration and management, NIM, VIO, Jumpstart, IBM HMC, Yum/Satellite/RMT, networking, Veritas, etc.Good at scripting shell or Python for automationProven ability to perform UNIX builds such as AIX, RHEL, SuseWorking knowledge of VMWare vCenter, System imaging, TCP/IP functionality, networking, Remote administration systems (iLOM, ILO or iDRAC) a mustHP, IBM and Dell rack-mount server hardware knowledgeMust have strong communication skills and ability to work individually and within a team.Working knowledge of Configuration management tool such as SaltStack would be a plus. Skills: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AIX, VIO, SUSE, Linux, Unix, Python (Programming Language), Shell Scripting