UNIX Administrator at Burlington

Job Description:

We are currently seeking a highly-motivated and dependable UNIX systems administrator who has experience with build and support/maintenance activities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Must be a self starter capable of simultaneously prioritizing, and managing, a variety of complex project tasks and support activities in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will also have experience with enterprise SAN/NAS storage systems. In addition, IBM AIX experience is a plus. The UNIX administrator will be responsible for providing technical expertise and support to application teams and delivery managers within the organization. This person will be also be responsible for documenting processes and automating them via scripting, as required. This individual will also be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation providing support for the production UNIX systems. Candidate must possess solid analytical, technical, written and oral communication skills.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

● Lead technical discussion for new initiatives & design a solution as per IT roadmap.

● Provision, install and maintain UNIX systems.

● Perform proactive analysis of infrastructure capacity and performance.

● Initiate preventive maintenance on the operating systems as well as manage repair of system/environment problems.

● Analyze system faults and troubleshoot and run diagnostic tests on operating systems and hardware to detect problems.

● Document tasks, procedures, environments for setting up and maintaining systems.

● Perform system backup and recovery.

● Develop process automation.

● Solid understanding of best practices and ability to implement them.

● Work collaboratively with other staff.

● Manage setup and provisioning of storage resources.

● Review existing Infra landscape & look for opportunity to improve.

● Bring innovation or explore new opportunities in Infra space.

● Act as an escalation point for technical solutions.

● Provide on job training/coaching when required.

● Knowledge transfer to the team members through regular soft-skill or technical bulletin/sessions.

Job Requirements:

Required Skills / Qualifications:

● US Person.

● Minimum of seven years of experience of relevant IT support preferably in the semiconductor industry

● Able to support, configure and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX systems. Performance Tuning and system optimization.

● Experienced in setup of NetBackup and development of backup procedures

● Fluent with shell scripting, PERL and UNIX utilities. Skill to automate routine tasks.

● Ability to troubleshoot standard daemons and tools (ssh, nfs, ntp, apache, pki, sudo, syslog, logrotate, chkconfig, init scripts, rsync, etc.).

● Performance tuning and system optimization.

● Understanding of/experience with local/wide area networking concepts/protocols.

● Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

● Experience in mission-critical operations, ideally within a 24x7 large scale distributed and clustered environment.

● Interact with vendors in the resolution of complex problems.

● Effectively communicate with customers, help desk support personnel and senior engineers.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

● BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

● Provisioning and support of NetApp NAS storage, HP & EMC SAN storage, and Brocade SAN switches will be big plus.

● Experienced in setup of NetBackup and development of backup procedures.

● Familiarity with VMware and/or other virtualization technologies.

● Ability to deploy, configure, and support Sun/Oracle Solaris and AIX systems.

● Excellent technical documentation skills.

● Familiarity in the following areas is also a plus:

o Apache, revision control systems, LDAP, puppet, kickstart, clustering/high availability, PERL, JSS, Windows clients, Nagios, Cisco switches and routers

● Experience in the semiconductor industry is an additional asset.

● Experienced in setup of NetBackup and development of backup procedures

● Familiarity in the following areas is also a plus: Windows clients, Apache, revision control systems, LDAP, Nagios, HP Openview, Cisco switches and routers

● ITIL skills are preferred.

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