Midrange/Unix Systems Administrator

We are searching for a candidate to work in the IT Operations Center as a Midrange/Unix Systems Administrator. This IT Unix Administrative role will support a 24x7 environment that hosts the company's critical Applications and Oracle Databases. The environment includes Solaris, HPUX, Linux and AIX. This position is a day time Monday thru Friday from 7am to 3pm position with overtime and weekend/holiday hours possible.

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES:

- Primary responsibility is managing the availability of the IT Server environment. Responsibility for the monitoring and restoration of the Company Infrastructure following documented processes.
- Open tickets and escalating them to the appropriate vendors.
- Responding to Incident tickets and assigning priorities.
- Ability to follow documented processes.
- Perform diagnostics to remediate detected/reported server HW/OS incidents
- Perform scheduled configuration changes (SW/HW).
- Work with groups within IT Infrastructure and IT Applications in resolving problem issues.
- Document alarms and process for use by other analysts within the Network Operations Center.
- Must be flexible with O.T. and possible shift changes to cover for vacation/sickness.
- Maintain/update ITOC standard operating and escalation procedures, personnel contact lists, and other ITOC documentation as directed by ITOC leadership.
- Prepare IT network and systems performance reports and operating statistics as directed by ITOC leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- The Senior Level Midrange Server Admin should be fully capable of performing independent actions associated with best practices in architecture, deployment, support, troubleshooting, and inter-operability of current Midrange server operating systems and primary Server Side applications.
- A minimum work experience of 5+ years of UNIX administration - must have a solid understanding of Unix
- Experience with Rackwillingness to take personal initiative and lead others
- Strong customer service skills
- Highly effective written and oral communication skills

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

- May require ability to work at night, off-hours, holidays, and weekends (on-call rotation)
- This position may require emergency call-in during severe storm mobilization and electric system damage restoration.