Unix/AIX Level 3 Engineer

UNIX/AIX LEVEL 3 ENGINEER COLLEGEVILLE, PA 12 MONTH CONTRACT

As a leading IT managed services specialist with more than 12,000 associates worldwide, we rely on the personal relationships we build with our consultants and the clients who depend on them. Join the COMPUCOM Team!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provide Unix/AIX platform support for the VPSX application
- 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:

- Progressive experience in IT and/or Platform Engineering experience in a Fortune 500 company.
- 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
- Complex Unix/AIX debugging, performance, Kernel tracing and tuning, advanced C, Perl programming and Korn Shell Scripting
- 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 knowledge with various Filesystem technologies, Volume Management and disk multi-pathing technologies including Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise/DMP,LVM2, Leadville and Emulex LPFC HBA Drivers, MPXIO,MPIO, Powerpath, Solaris Volume Manager, CFS, ZFS, EXT3, UFS, VxFS, AFS and underlying Vnode interfaces
- Extensive experience with large-scale enterprise environments and related hardware/software PlatformTechnologies (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
- Printing service related experience, including print server configuration and maintenance
- Some experience with VPSX and/or other enterprise output management tools

*CompuCom supports Employment Equity and Diversity*Dallas-based CompuCom Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of end-user enablement, service experience management, and cloud technology services to Fortune 1000 companies. CompuCom partners with enterprises to develop smarter ways they can work, grow and produce value for their business. Founded in 1987, privately held CompuCom has approximately 11,500 associates and supports more than 4 million end users in North America. For more information, visit our website.