UNIX Systems Administrator, DR/HA

Washington  ‐ Onsite
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Experienced UNIX Systems Administrator needed for a 6 month contract-to-hire position in Seattle, WA for the Disaster Recovery/High Availability team. Provide UNIX Systems Administration for the Disaster Recovery/High Availability (DR/HA) team through consulting, design, and implementation services in a project-driven environment. Major Duties and Responsibilities: Provide supportable, robust, and secure UNIX environments for business applications. Diagnose and isolate OS, Server Side networking and application related problems, utilizing available resources to correct or create suitable work-arounds. Provide documentation and training for testing and troubleshooting procedures. Perform system builds and hardware upgrades, maintenance, repairs and replacements for UNIX Servers across the enterprise. Provide helpdesk ticket and emergency support. Assist with UNIX problem diagnostics, system recovery, core dump analysis and disk recovery. Provides third-level production support for Servers and data storage including after-hours on-call support. Develop, maintain and enhance tools for task automation using available programming and Scripting languages. Develop and document standards for processes, procedures, configurations, and installations. Collaborate with development teams to create tools and install accounts and applications. Monitor system health for hardware/software failures. Provide disaster recovery documentation and procedures. DR/HA Duties and Functional Responsibilities: Ensure the availability and recoverability of UNIX systems through the design, implementation, and documentation of redundant DR/HA infrastructures and strategies to meet business objectives. Stay current with best practices and technologies for DR/HA. Monitor UNIX system performance to identify DR/HA configuration, hardware, and tuning opportunities Mentor team members and train IS development, support and operations staff in DR/HA solutions. Assist with coordinating UNIX systems administration activities out of the secondary data center in the event of a catastrophic failure to ensure operational and support services are provided for critical business systems.

We will call qualified candidates after review. Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval

REFERRALS WANTED - $1000 REWARD! Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will pay you $1000 if we find a job for that person!

Overtime: straight time

- 5+ years of Solaris systems administration in a multi-tiered environment
- working knowledge of Sun/Oracle hardware products and Solaris 9 & 10
- extensive Scripting experience with sh, ksh, bash, AWK, SED, and Perl
- Familiarity with database design for clustering, mirroring, and replication

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 month Contract-to-Hire
From
Precision System Design, Inc.
Published at
20.03.2012
Project ID:
334993
Contract type
Freelance
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