Description
Location: Dublin
Duration: 6-12 Months
Daily Rate Contract
Start Date: as soon as possible
Job Description:
My client is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join their team in Dublin as a Red Hat Systems Administrator as soon as possible.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Maintain and Support a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment 99.999 levels of availability
- Responsible for maintaining DR, System refreshes, backups and restores (EMC Networker)
- Applying RHEL Patch updates
- Proficient managing and Operating Clusters (preferably VCS)
- Incident and problem resolution, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction possible
- Skills/Knowledge Transfer
- Document Best practices for RHEL operational tasks
- Preventative maintenance tasks to ensure IT systems are operational and secure and to prevent future incidents
- Batch monitoring and recovery of failures with a view to improving the system/batch performance
- Change request (CR) impact and prioritisation through to implementation
- Delivery of ad hoc unplanned changes
- Customer communications
Experience Required:
Nominated resources would need to have the following experience:
- Relevant degree
- 5 year experience with minimum RHEL System Administrator certification (V5 or V6) or preferably RHCE (V5 or V6)
- Excellent remedial troubleshooting capabilities in an Enterprise Compute environment and be proactive when faced with a challenge
- Strong understanding of VMware V5 environments
- Strong understanding of with TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, LVM
- Experience working with SAN fabrics and Storage Arrays (preferably 3PAR)
- Excellent process methodology
- Proficient with X86 hardware
- Relevant experience Managing backups/restores of VMware & RHEL systems using EMC Networker
- Excellent Shell Scripting capability
General Competencies:
Nominated resources would need to have the following competencies:
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills
- Strong troubleshooting, problem solving and work planning abilities
- Strong process orientated approach to problem solving and working
- Demonstrated flexibility and motivational skills
- Customer Service delivery and improvements
- IT Change, Incident, Problem Management Processes (Service Management)