Sr UNIX Systems Administrator

This role requires SME skills in the following areas:

• Diagnose production problems on Unix host leveraging standard debugging tools for hardware, CPU capacity, memory, network, and I/O.

• Manage Performance and Capacity, collect metrics for analysis and leverage for performance, stability and overall environment enhancement.

• Ability to coordinate changes across Storage, Network, Database and application specific changes • Good communication skills • Ability to run projects and provide management updates • Ability to follow up with vendors for root cause analysis • Ensure Unix systems are maintained to the established baselines to eliminate single points of failure as well as to comply with internal and external regulatory controls.

• Support of End of Life, quarterly OS patching, and DR test initiatives

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of core Unix ecosystems such as AD/Centrify, GLDAP, NIS, DNS and NFS, 10+ years • Knowledge of Linux (Red Hat 5 & 6 and SLES 10), 10+ years.

• Knowledge of Solaris 10 is highly desirable although greater focus on Linux as a growth area.

• Performance analysis and tuning, 10+ years.

• SME knowledge of storage multipathing (PowerPath, VxDMP, RedHat DM) • SME Knowledge of disk management tools such as DiskSuite, LVM, VxVM, 10+ years • SME knowledge of network resiliency tools such as (IPMP, Nic teaming).

• Knowledge of clustering tools such as Veritas Cluster server, Red Hat Clustering, 10+ years.

• Knowledge of SAN technology and its impact on the server environment, 10+ years.

• Troubleshooting Skills (CPU, I/O, network, and Memory), 10+ years.

• TCPIP stack10+ years.

• Shell/Perl Scripting, 7+ years.

• Distributed Systems Management, 10+ years.

• Knowledge and Support of large DB environments such as Oracle Rac, Sybase, Sybase IQ, 10+ years • Knowledge of Puppet, Spacewalk or RedHat Satellite is a requirement for this role.

Interested candidates please contact

Abhishek Agarwal

aagarwal(at)optionsgroup.com