Midrange/Unix Systems Administrator

Description

We are searching for a candidate to work in the IT Operations Center as a Midrange/Unix Systems Administrator. This IT Unix Administrative role will support a 24x7 environment that hosts the company's critical Applications and Oracle Databases. The environment includes Solaris, HPUX, Linux and AIX. This position is a day time Monday thru Friday from 7am to 3pm position with overtime and weekend/holiday hours possible.

Primary Job Duties:

• Primary responsibility is managing the availability of the IT Server environment. Responsibility for the monitoring and restoration of the Company Infrastructure following documented processes.
• Open tickets and escalating them to the appropriate vendors.
• Responding to Incident tickets and assigning priorities.
• Ability to follow documented processes.
• Perform diagnostics to remediate detected/reported server HW/OS incidents
• Perform scheduled configuration changes (SW/HW).
• Work with groups within IT Infrastructure and IT Applications in resolving problem issues.
• Document alarms and process for use by other analysts within the Network Operations Center.
• Must be flexible with O.T. and possible shift changes to cover for vacation/sickness.
• Maintain/update ITOC standard operating and escalation procedures, personnel contact lists, and other ITOC documentation as directed by ITOC leadership.
• Prepare IT network and systems performance reports and operating statistics as directed by ITOC leadership.

Qualifications:

• The Senior Level Midrange Server Admin should be fully capable of performing independent actions associated with best practices in architecture, deployment, support, troubleshooting, and inter-operability of current Midrange server operating systems and primary Server Side applications.
• A minimum work experience of 5+ years of UNIX administration - must have a solid understanding of Unix
• Experience with Rack & Stack
• Experience with Solaris, HPUX and Red hat Linux OS and Hardware.
• Good to have: Wintel, VMWare, NetApp, Veritas
• Working knowledge and familiarity with Windows Platforms )
• Knowledge and experience with AD, DNS, DHCP
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and group policies
• Candidate must have experience and demonstrate strong troubleshooting and problem isolation skill when working in a large complex distributed IT environment.
• Ability to compile operating data/statistics and prepare performance reports
• Experience with Corporate Security best practices

Desktop Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Office suite

Other IT Skills:

• Familiarity with change management practices in an IT operating environment
• Familiarity with IT network security practices

Interpersonal skills:

• Ability to work with internal IT clients of varying abilities
• Ability to prioritize tasks
• Ability to handle high pressure situations
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment
• Self-starting; willingness to take personal initiative and lead others
• Strong customer service skills
• Highly effective written and oral communication skills

Additional Requirements:

• May require ability to work at night, off-hours, holidays, and weekends (on-call rotation)
• This position may require emergency call-in during severe storm mobilization and electric system damage restoration.