Solaris Systems Administrator

The Solaris Systems Administrator will provide enterprise-wide Unix System infrastructure support for complex system and interconnected technologies that require day-to-day support and administration in order to maintain optimum performance and utilization. Provide support in the following areas: Sun Solaris Operational Support, Veritas Cluster administration and server virtualization, Enterprise Sun LDAP for UNIX systems and applications.

Responsibilities

Perform Unix Systems Administration for Sun Solaris Systems to include: Sun SunFire series, M3000/M4000/M5000/T5120/T5220/T5240/T5440/V240/V280/V490 etc.; Maintain Solaris infrastructure environment at Client data centers during business hours and off-hours; troubleshoot Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP; Install, configure, and maintain SUN Solaris server equipment, disk arrays, tape libraries, virtual tape libraries and terminal servers; Solaris routine operation functions; Provide data protection, recovery and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery and business continuity methods in Solaris environment; Perform routine backup and recovery for data protection and integrity for Solaris servers; monitor Solaris infrastructure which consists of complex sets of equipment and system software; provide proactive remediation; Perform proactive monitoring for high availability, System data protection, backup and restore, UNIX central authentication, user account management, disk storage management, hardware and OS maintenance, and application maintenance; Install, configure and maintain highly optimized Virtualized UNIX environment using Zone/Container, LDOM and VMware virtualization technologies; UNIX High Availability environment consisting of different HA techniques i.e. clustering, load balancing, and cluster file systems; UNIX storage environment using Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager and ZFS

Requirements

Five to Ten years experience providing Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration support for large scale complex unix environments; Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration; Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage foundation and other High Availability techniques in the UNIX environment; Veritas NetBackup; Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager and ZFS; Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in UNIX environment; EMC storage array based SAN environment; Knowledge of Sun Entry-Level, Midrange and High-End Enterprise servers i.e. E25K and Sun disk arrays; Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, HTTP; Sun Virtualization technologies: Container and LDOM; SUN LDAP or Oracle Directory Services/LDAP; Sun SMC and Quest monitoring tools; Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years; Ability to keep up with updates in the UNIX environment; Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Ability to work within strict deadlines and with a wide spectrum of people; Project Leader experience; Sun Solaris Operational Support; Veritas Cluster administration and server virtualization; Enterprise Sun LDAP for UNIX systems and applications

Nice to have

Shell scripting and/or Perl scripting experience; System level support for Oracle application and database Servers, Java application servers, Websphere or other large-scale databases in a UNIX environment; UNIX environment with Oracle, Java application server and Websphere or other large-scale databases