Description
Our Westlake, TX Client is seeking a Senior UNIX System Engineer. Contract to hire Position.
Senior UNIX System Engineers are responsible for analysing, designing, installing, administering, maintaining, planning for growth and troubleshooting the enterprise's UNIX systems environment. This includes all UNIX based operating systems and services, hardware platforms and infrastructure applications.
Duties:
- Establishes system specifications by conferring with users; analysing workflow, access, information, and security requirements; designing system infrastructure.
- Establishes system by planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of UNIX based system to include but not limited to server hardware, software, LAN and WAN networks, and operating and system management systems; defining system and operational policies and procedures.
- Maintains system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating and system management systems; designing and running system load/stress testing; escalating application problems to vendor.
- Secures system by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; maintaining documentation.
- Prepares Operational support teams by designing and conducting training programs; providing references and support.
- Upgrades system by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
- Meets financial requirements by submitting information for budgets; monitoring expenses.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
- Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Skills/Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Unix/Linux platform experience. HP/UX and Red Hat preferred.
- 5+ years of IBM AIX platform experience. Must know version 6.x and VIO virtualization technologies.
- 3+ years experience with Linux OS hosting in a VMware vSphere environment.
- Minimum of 5 years of UNIX/Linux design and implementation experience, 3 of Operational support experience.
- 5+ years experience with x86 and x64 server hardware, preferably HP Proliant C Class Blades and DL models.
- 4+ years working in redundant n-tier architectures supporting clustered configurations, IBM Power HA, RHEL Clustering, Opensource heartbeat 2, HPUX MCSG.
- Experience with designing and supporting disaster recovery configuration at secondary sites.
- Experience with configuring secure operating system deployments and standards (OS hardening).
- Experience with designing and supporting LDAP technologies for a UNIX environment.
- Deep understanding of open source software technology.
- SAN/NAS experience, configuring Servers to use FC, NFS & CIFS.
- Networking - knowledge working with load balancers.
- Scripting and light programming using kshell & bash.
- Experience hosting systems in a cloud environment a plus, Amazon EC2, etc.
- Experience with systems performance management, generating reports, analysing logs, GLANCE, NMon.
- Experience with SW distribution and updates via SUSE SMT and/or RHEL Satellite server.
- Linux/Red Hat experience.
- AIX.
- HP/UX.
Additional Job Details:
1. 5+ years of IBM AIX platform experience. Must know version 6.x and VIO virtualization technologies. A third party vendor for the project will be introducing the AIX platform to for the first time so this candidate will need to provide his/her expertise on it
2. 5+ years of Linux platform experience. Red Hat preferred.
3. 5+ years of UNIX platform experience.
- Client will not accept subcontractors
- UNIX
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses