UNIX System Administrator

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

This is a data centre migration & refurbishment project. It involves the decommissioning of all old Legacy Servers and migration of all remaining Unix Servers to new Cisco Nexus switching infrastructure. The estate contains over 2000 physical Servers and 5000 VMs running on VMware. The majority of the estate runs on Redhat with the Legacy environment using Solaris and HPUX.

The role is to ensure the smooth transition of all Unix Servers, and avoid any unwanted outages or disruption to services during the relocation process.
Key tasks and deliverables
Also responsible for troubleshooting issues caused by the transition and managing a dedicated team of engineers who are responsible for the storage, application, DBA, cabling, power etc. also create the changes (Remedy) and manage the tasks from start to finish, attending CAB meetings on a weekly basis.
Desirable Experience
. The Unix BAU team provided OS & Hardware, 2nd & 3rd line remote support for several customers across the UK, with an estate containing over 1000 Servers spanning the following platforms.
o RHEL 6.2, 6.3
o Solaris 8,9 & 10 (Sparc & X86)
o AIX 5.3, 6.1 (IBM P570)
o Veritas Netbackup, Volume Manager & Vertias cluster
o Solaris Volume manager, Zones, ZFS, Solaris Cluster & DR
o HACMP, SAN, TCP/IP, OVM, vShpere

. Patching, Software upgrades, code releases, high severity incident resolution, backups, restores, change assessments, change implementation and Shell Scripting are just some of the tasks that the Unix BAU team are responsible for.
. eCommerce feeds in flat file format, using a progress program and UNIX VI. Basic Solaris 9 & 10 System administration.

Contract renewable and possibility of long term for the right candidate

Start date
1/8/2016
Duration
3 months/renewable and possibility of long term fo
From
Netforte Consulting Limited
Published at
20.07.2016
Project ID:
1170999
Contract type
Freelance
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