Sun Solaris Administrator, Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux

SUN SOLARIS ADMINISTRATOR

My client is looking for a Sun Solaris Systems Administrator

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Sun Solaris System Administrator with some multi-platform experience. The primary responsibility will be to manage the Sun Solaris within a multi-platform infrastructure (RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris).

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

- Specifying, configuring and implementing all Red Hat Linux environments.
- Day-to-day support of the Red Hat Linux based production and development server environments.
- Providing technical support to development & infrastructure projects.
- Included in production support, 7am-7pm on shift basis.
- Included in the overnight on-call support on a rota basis.
- Maintaining full documentation of systems, fault resolutions, and incident investigations.
- Testing of new software releases, patches and upgrades.
- Liaising with other technical support teams (Windows, DBA, Storage, Network, etc.)
- Liaising with development groups to ensure standards are adhered to.
- Establishing effective lines of communications.

KNOWLEDGE AND REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

The candidate should have at least 3-5 years Sun Solaris System Administration experience in a large sized environment, preferable in wholesale, investment banking organisation or retail bank organisation.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

- Sun Solaris System Administration
- Solaris 10 zones & zfs
- Awareness of multi-platform environments
- Intel/AMD Hardware
- Virtualization tools
- Shell Scripting

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

- Backup and restore (TSM client)
- Monitoring (SNMP, HP SIM, HP Openview)
- Redhat Satellite
- Xen/KVM Virtualisation
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Experience of building OpenSource software and rpm's
- Middleware knowledge, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss
- UNIX Security and Compliance (SoX)
- Capacity & Performance Monitoringdue to a high volume of candidates, we will only be able to respond to those who meet the above requirements. If you have not heard back within 14 working days, please assume that your application has been unsuccesful on this occasion.