Sr Unix System Administrator

Company: Taurean Consulting
Location: Las Vegas
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

This role is for an Unix Systems Administrator III who will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems in a 24x7 highly-available production environment. Job Responsibilities:

• Lead all system initiatives and new projects in the Unix and Systems environment.
• Install, patch and tune Operating Systems and all third party applications.
• Ability to write scripts for monitoring critical systems and applications.
• Implement developed procedure to monitor systems for capacity and performance.
• Create department documentation and reports.
• Dedicated to solve software issues that require research and interaction with internal resources and vendors
• This is a full time position with on-call duties and requirements to rotate for schedule maintenance windows.Job Requirements
  • 10+ years work experience as a Linux/Unix/Sun Solaris system admin
  • Must have experience working in large enterprise class server environments
  • Must have work experience with SAN technologies (storage and FC switches)
  • Practical working knowledge of networking services and protocols - routing, subnets, UDP, TCP, IP, DNS, NFS, SSH, SNMP, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP & VLANs
  • Should have scripting skills - eg bash shell
  • Knowledge of clustering technologies and high availability strategies.
  • Experience supporting web servers or application servers (eg Tomcat).
  • Knowledge of backup software and recovery strategies.Not Required, but Preferred
    • Some CI/CD experience including but not limited to, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet or Chef.
    • Some development skills preferred e.g. ability to work on scripts or configuration automation frameworks.
    • Experience with SAS Grid desirable.
    • Support of Oracle databases desirable.
    • F5 LTM/BigIQ experience desirable
    • Experience with ZFS and Solaris Volume manager (ASM) desirableEducationBachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college and a minimum of seven years of experience required. * Position is onsite in Las Vegas, NV. No remote work. No sponsorship or third party candidates for this role. - provided by Dice

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