Description
Senior Unix Administrator; Contract; Central Dublin; Financial Services; €per day
My client is looking for a Senior Unix Administrator, in Financial Services, based in Dublin City Centre.
This is initially a six month contract, with the possibility of extension, paying between €400 and €500 per day, depending on experience.
This role involves experience in new OS and/or platform certification, first article server builds, operating system upgrades, patching, security hardening, presenting storage to Servers, installation automation, and installation of third party software.
Responsibilities also include working with other Technology services groups, performance troubleshooting and coordination of activities with customers, working with vendors, and resource management of Unix environments.
Key Requirements & Experience
Extensive experience in Unix Operational Support in a medium to large telecom and/or distributed platform environment performing installation, configuration, and troubleshooting duties.
In Depth knowledge of Solaris & RedHat, system administration troubleshooting; Boot from SAN, troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, Disaster Recovery.
Ability to develop automation process using Scripting languages such as Shell.
Experience of working with EMC and NetApp storage and familiarity of SAN and Vfiler technology and architectures
Knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, file transfer and secure file transfer protocols, IIS, networking/distributed computing environment concepts; basic routing concepts.
SuSE 11+ and RedHat 6+ Linux experience - Required
Solaris - Required
Clustering on RedHat & Solaris - Desirable
IBM AIX - Desirable
Oracle/IBM/Dell hardware knowledge - Required.
This is an exciting opportunity, so don't delay- apply now!