Senior Unix Administrator

·         Systems design, planning, hardware/software installation, hardening, maintenance, and upgrades to UNIX systems and infrastructure components.

·         Backup and restore of data, business continuity methods and policies, system high availability and disaster recovery strategy and testing.

·         Proactive monitoring of UNIX systems environment and problem resolution, user support, system application support and Operating System support.

·         Maintaining UNIX environment documentation including standard operating procedures.

Some overnight travel may be necessary to offsite data center and satellite offices in eastern US.

Qualifications:

·         A minimum of 10 years of Solaris Operating System experience supporting mission critical, large enterprise environment especially Solaris 10 on Intel and Sparc architecture

·         2+ years of experience with NAS and SAN technologies, preferable experience with Sun Storage Solutions

·         A minimum of 2 years of experience as a team supervisor or lead engineer

·         Experience coordinating projects including setting scope, delegating tasks and overseeing timelines and deliverables

·         Experience in Solaris containers technology; open source personalization (Apache, Tomcat); patching / Jumpstart

·         Experience with LDAP / AD integration experience preferred

·         NIS, YP command, sudo, and integration tool

·         Strong scripting skills in one of the following; shell scripting and PERL

·         Extensive Knowledge of Solaris UNIX server hardware components

·         Extensive Knowledge of Unix File Systems (QFS, ZFS,…)

·         Extensive Knowledge of Unix/Linux security hardening

·         Adept at researching technology solutions

·         Proven analytical and trouble shooting skills

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work within strict deadlines and with a wide spectrum of people BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of education and  experience

·         Database experience optional/preferred