Our client is hiring a Unix L3 specialist on a long-term contract basis.
Work Location: Alpharetta, Georgia
Work Model: Hybrid
Summary:
This role is for a Unix L3 specialist to the Unix Support Team with the following responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Proving SRE Support to the Firms Critical Infrastructure (Oxygen Systems) in Follow-The-Sun model
- Provide rotational On-call support, weekend project work
- Proactive health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational stability and compliance for risk & control programs to ensure the production environment is not put at risk.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to test and certify new hardware & software products.
- Engage with clients to understand business demand, needs & support during outage scenarios.
- Onboard new UNIX assets for growth or large programs such as new datacenter build outs.
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years of Unix/Linux Administration Enterprise Level Experience in large, distributed environment.
- Experience of Project Management, Incident & Change Management and Reporting
- In depth knowledge Linux (Red-hat) with good knowledge in Solaris.
- Detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and associated technologies (NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP)
- Detailed knowledge of Unix system monitoring and reporting
- Detailed knowledge of Server Firmware upgrade
- Detailed knowledge of NTP/Time Keeper, Time synchronization technologies
- In depth knowledge in vulnerability assessment and server patching.
- Programming level knowledge of Shell, Perl/Python.
- Ability to troubleshoot, resolve complex problems, with a fix it once for everywhere and automation mentality.
- Effective oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are essential, as well as the ability to work well in a global-team environment.
- The individual should have strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and high-pressure situations for outage handling, management, or resolution
Skills / Certifications Desired:
- Knowledge of Infoblox DDI solution
- Certification in RedHat Enterprise Linux
- Knowledge of Veritas Cluster Server or similar high availability product
- Knowledge in ansible, OpenShift, Kubernetes
- Veritas Volume Manager
- Prior experience working in the financial services industry
Pay Rate: $64 – $74
Job ID: 84301 “`