Description
Unix Systems Administrator
Our client, headquartered in Zurich, is an important subsidiary of a global company in the finance industry.
We are looking for an Unix systems administrator to be a member of the Swiss regional Unix team responsible for operations of local and global teams.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3/5/6.
- Lead/participate in infrastructure projects
- Third Level Support of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux distributed server environment liaising with regional and global counterparts
- Understand business priorities; adequately prioritize work accordingly to meet business objectives.
- Drive for improvements and implement them in regional or global scale.
- Communicate and collaborate with other internal partners for designing, planning and coordinating -for implementation and ensure work is completed in a timely manner.
- You will be expected to drive the execution of innovative solutions.
- Write technical documentations for related infrastructure and installs which will include, but not limited to, the following technologies:
Must have:
- Clustering, Filesystem, Volume Manager, Disksuite, ZFS, RHCS
- OS: Redhat Linux, Oracle Solaris, Solaris Zones, VMWare,
- HW: Sun Fire and enterprise product line, Fujitsu Prime power series, HP DL Servers, IBM
- Blades and SAN/NAS storage
Ad hoc/on-call support during weekdays and weekends is required.
Our ideal candidates should have the following requisites:
- At least 5 years experience in supporting UNIX based distributed computing environment with massive number of Servers.
- Prior industry experience is not mandatory, though will be considered favourably
- Posses excellent verbal and written communication skills. In English, German would be an advantage.
- Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating systems both Redhat Linux and Solaris 8/10 are required. Also knowledge of virtualisation technologies, such as Vmware is required
Skills with some at least 2 of the following products are mandatory:
- Veritas foundation suite
- Veritas Cluster Server
- Redhhat Cluster Server
- Suncluster
Ability to write scripts in administrative languages (for examples. Tk, Perl, ksh, sh, csh, SQL)
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing and storage environment concepts and technologies - LAN, WAN, routing protocols, NFS, DNS, NIS, LDAP, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, etc.
Interested? Please apply online. We look forward to receiving your application.
Please don't hesitate to send your CV to Sophia Alaoui or if you should have any questions, please don't hesitate to call