Unix Administrator (SOLARIS)

Overview:

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing 3rd Level Support across over 300 Solaris OS instances both physical and virtual across M-Series, T-Series and Legacy V-Series hardware.

Profile:

• 5 plus years’ experience supporting Solaris Operating Systems
• Administrative skills configuring and managing high availability and clustered technologies and environments.
• Significant experience working on Solaris M-Series and T-Series hardware
• Administrative skills in performance analysis and performance tuning.
• Demonstrate significant experience in Capacity planning
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot configuration issues, performance issues with both physical and virtual servers.
• Ability to make recommendations on best practices for Solaris Operating Systems
• Ability to patch Solaris OS instances across physical and virtual – LDOM and Zones
• Able to plan and execute Solaris OS upgrades
• Ability to develop and manage system documentation including standard operating procedures and routine status reports; and script development, testing and implementation.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience for the following: – provisioning, virtualization, monitoring, automation and performance tuning.
• Demonstrate an ability to do firmware upgrades
• Experienced or knowledgeable in audit/governance/compliance/risk within a Solaris server infrastructure environment.
• Should have a very good understanding of ITIL process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, good customer handling skills and experience in working with virtual customers and teams.

Nice to have skills:

• Hands-on experience with Oracle physical servers.
• Server patching experience on LDOMS and Zones.
• Experience in VCS Clusters –preferably implementation and troubleshooting
• Performing firmware upgrades
• Performance tuning on both virtual and physical servers.