Description
*This is a 6 month contract role with the possibility of it being a contract to hire*Global Financial Institution located in the Chicago Loop is looking for a Senior SUN UNIX Systems Engineer with some Linux esperience. Individual will be part of a team that administers the corporate UNIX infrastructure which consists of Solaris and Linux Servers in a 24x7 highly available data center environment. Must have experience with administering, supporting, designing, and implementing Sun Solaris. Troubleshooting and tuning skills are also a must. The candidate needs to work independently and have the requisite UNIX troubleshooting skills to solve technical issues on an on-going basis. Ability to create new server builds and troubleshoot server issues is critical.
* Strong knowledge of Solaris 10 skill set required which consists of zones/containers, dtrace, zfs, server creation and Kernel and TCP/IP tuning.
* Strong knowledge of the Symantec (Veritas) products family is required --- Foundation Suite, VCS, VVR --- minimal levels of 4.1, 5.0 preferred.
* Performance analysing skill sets, capacity management and debugging skills (kdb) required.
Requirements:
* 6 + experience with strong Solaris 10 background, and in-depth Veritas skills sets --- Foundation Manager (ver 5.0), VVR (5.0).
* Knowledge and use of Linux (Red Hat 5.0. and SUSE SLES10) is beneficial.
* Hands-on Soalris10 server build using Jumpstart server
* Hands-on RedHat 5.5 or higher server build using Kictstart server
* Symantec Storage Foundation and Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC database
* Solaris10 zones
* IPMP, Link Aggregation, NICBonding
* The candidate is required to have solid experience in the jumpstart/kickstart process.
* Strong day-to-day experience in secondary UNIX skill such as NFS/NIS/DNS expected.
* Proficiency in Perl and Shell Scripting is essential.
* Network troubleshooting skills are plus.