Linux Consultant/RHEL/Red Hat/VM Ware/Troubleshooting

LINUX CONSULTANT/RHEL/RED HAT/VM WARE/TROUBLESHOOTING 

Square One is currently recruiting for an experienced Linux Consultant to be based in Belgium for a 6 months Rolling contract.

THE IDEAL LINUX CONSULTANT WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE

- Total 8-9 years of core technical experience on Linux platforms
- Manage operational priorities and project requirements.
- Documentation and creation of knowledge base and procedures/work-packs
- Attending meetings, War Rooms, sessions.
- Supporting and troubleshooting Complex troubleshooting and co-ordination
- Handle escalated incidents and get involved in problem, change management
- Follow-up of performance and capacity issues
- Vendor management
- Perform/co-ordinate weekend/out-of-office hours interventions (as per a pre-decided calendar)
- Perform On-call support after office hours (as per a pre-decided calendar)

SHOULD HAVE A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOLLOWING

- RHEL 4, 5, 6
- Linux knowledge equivalent to RHCSA or RHCSE
- HP/Fujistsu/IBM/Dell HArdware
- Red HAT/Debian/Ubuntu Linux OS
- Parallells Virtuozo
- VMWare

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

- Servers stating, provisioning and Post install (RHEL 5 & RHEL 6)
- Working with Various projects and co-ordination with project managers for deployment.
- Installing and configuring multipath-0.4.9-64 with SAN, and troubleshooting.
- Performance tuning of server in order to tune memory, cpu, load average
- Server(s) patching using RHN
- Managing Puppet server-2.7.23, class and groups and dashboard
- MII - Bonding configuration and troubleshooting (network failover)
- Hardware error troubleshooting and technical spoc towards Vendor.
- Configuring and managing System back-ups and recovery for Servers, and spoc for the same.
- Settingup and managing MySQL-5.0.95 Database (master and slave)
- Migration from physical server to virtual, and vice versa.(RHEL 5 to 6 and RHEL 6 upgrade)
- Connectivity sheet preparation, co-ordination with DC.
- DNS and Firewall issue troubleshooting.

LOCATION - BELGIUM

START DATE - ASAP

LENGTH OF CONTRACT - 6 MONTHS ROLLING

RATE - NEGOTIABLE