SAP VPSX Platform Engineer

SAP VPSX PLATFORM ENGINEER COLLEGEVILLE, PA 6 MONTH CONTRACT

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Currently we re looking for an onsite Engineer to provide Unix/AIX platform support for a VPSX application.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Research and track support issues as they relate to the server platform and provide Root Cause Analysis
- Collaborate with application development teams for software install and configuration activity and be able to work with personnel in different time zones
- Provide guidance to application teams on Security best practice as it relates to server platforms
- Act as customer liaison for all server platform specific technical issues and questions related to infrastructure
- Provide and implement tactical Engineering processes for existing platform technology solutions and deliver Operating System and 3rd party product updates, testing and document solutions and software deployment utilities as related to the project
- Provide Engineering support for Compliance, Identity and Access Management, Audit, Security, DMZ, Patch Vulnerability and Disaster Recovery related projects
- Implement approved installation and configuration changes using defined Change Management Processes
- Integrate and transition newly engineered services/solutions into the production environment and provide training, turnover and required documentation
- Assist with printer configuration and connectivity

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

- Must be able to work onsite in Collegeville, PA (no remote work)
- On-call rotation required
- Progressive experience in IT and/or Platform Engineering experience in a Fortune 500 company
- SAP Printing background: must be familiar with SAP printer commands and have printing service related experience, including print server configuration and maintenance
- Understanding of printers and their configuration
- Level 3 Senior Unix/AIX Platform Engineering (5-10+ years)
- Extensive experience in supporting Oracle Applications on Solaris and AIX
- Experience performing infrastructure environmental reviews, implementation reviews, stress testing, tuning, upgrades and migrations of Oracle Application infrastructure solutions
- In-depth working knowledge of integrating LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack for business applications
- Extensive knowledge in Software Engineering and software life cycle management related to qualification, packaging, release and deployment of Unix/AIX products
- Strong technical and hands on experience with engineering, qualifying, integrating and transitioning to production Operating System builds and patch packages for Solaris, AIX, and third party tools
- Extensive knowledge in High Availability Clustering and RAC Solutions for local and global site failover including Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, Global Cluster Manager, MC Service Guard, RedHat Cluster, CRS/ASM and associated Storage, VLAN and Network configurations related to setting up attended and unattended failovers
- Extensive experience in areas such as Operating Systems, Kernel and application core dump analysis, Virtual and Physical memory subsystems, device drivers and loadable modules, filesystem tuning, Dtrace, SystemTAP, Kdump, Strace, Truss, ADB, KADB MDB and Kstats, performance, resource management, virtualization, Kernel tracing and tuning, Flasharchive and Ignite system recovery and other 3rd party tools
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, Ethernet, Unix Network Administration, Unix Network Tuning using Kernel parameters and Content Service Switch (CSS) tiered infrastructure configurations
- Extensive experience with large-scale enterprise environments and related hardware/software Platform Technologies (Sun M9000, M8000, M5000, E25K, T5240, T5440, IBM x3950 and HP Superdome) and the ability to communicate relevant technical information about these platforms effectively to audiences ranging from Technical Subject Matter Experts and Business Units to Application teams and Senior Management
- Strong knowledge of High End Server System Controller software including SMS for (E25K) and XSCF for (M9000/M8000)
- Experience with Active Directory authentication, authorization, Name Services and security tools including (Sudo, PowerBroker, DMZ build hardening, RBAC, DNS, NIS, Netgroups, Automounter, Centrify, Tripwire, NFS, and LDAP, SE_Linux, and Solaris Security Toolkit SST/JASS)
- Strong Operations and Datacenter background
- Strong understanding of storage solutions (SAN, NAS) as they relate to UNIX systems including replication tools such as SRDF, Widesky (BCVs), VVR, Snap-Mirror, Oracle DataGuard and other Array based replication
- Familiarity with Storage Arrays such as EMC DMX, Clariion, IBM XIV, HP and Sun Storage Solutions, NetApp filers
- Experience with SunMC, Legato Networker and RMAN, AutoSys, SysEdge for scheduling, backup and monitoring
- Experience working on SOX and Datacenter Audits
- Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery Planning and execution as it relates to UNIX/AIX systems recovery
- Proficiency in the use of the MS Office suite including Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint as well as other standard business tools such as Visio, MS Project, Acrobat
- Ability to understand and use client and web based applications in support of standard processes; ie Service Center, Ariba, HPC and Demonstrates ability to interact comfortably with all levels of management and colleagues
- Some experience with VPSX and/or other enterprise output management tools
- Experience in a Windows environment
- File Systems: Extensive knowledge with various Filesystem technologies, Volume Management and disk multi-pathing technologies including Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise/D MP, LVM2, Leadville and Emulex LPFC HBA Drivers, MPXIO, MPIO, Powerpath, Solaris Volume Manager, CFS, ZFS, EXT3, UFS, VxFS, AFS and underlying Vnode interfaces
- Shell Scripting - Korn Shell, (Perl nice to have as well)
- Demonstrated debugging skills & a logical approach to problem solving
- Complex Unix/AIX debugging, performance, Kernel tracing and tuning, advanced C, Perl programming and Korn Shell Scripting
- Excellent communication skills able to interact with multiple levels of customers (from junior to executive levels)
- Good documentation skills
- Understanding of ITIL & HP Service Center

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE DESIRED

- Experience with LRS Suite or some other printer management software
- Archiving system experience, such as PCX (Page Center X)
- Some SQL experience
- Some Visual Basic experience no coding, but potential to maintain existing in house program
- Understanding of printer drivers
- Windows OS experience
- SAP PAL (manages printers for SAP)