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Unix Systems Administrator

We have an immediate opening for a strong Unix systems administrator / support engineer.

The position requires on-call support including planned and unplanned response to a 7X24 environment.

Responsibilities:

Providing technical support services to management, application development, quality assurance, computer operations, and internal business customers. Interface with other services teams to support computer operations.
Assist in planning, assessing, and deploying technologies, computer systems, operating systems and software to meet the short and long-term objectives.
Actively participate in design/review activities to evaluate program/ project approach, design and supportability. Provide recommendations for hardware acquisition, configuration or engineering.
Support relationships with equipment vendors, maintenance providers, and system software institutes to keep abreast of technological advances and communicate changes, and potential uses, to management.
Assist with analyzing, designing and implementing process automation opportunities to improve data processing efficiencies and ensure world-class service deliverable to the client and customers.
Implement and monitor system administration processes and procedures to ensure efficient and effective utilization of systems and disk space, as well as data normalization and optimization of development, testing, and production environments.

Required Background / Skills

Three to five years of system administration experience.
Bachelor's Degree in a related technical field or equivalent work experience.
Minimum 1 year experience supporting Oracle version 8 or greater
2+ years experience with the Solaris operating system
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management.
Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.
Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system - ie, paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions).
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; NFS and NIS; use of DNS; basic routing concepts.
Bourne shell, korn shell and/or Perl scripting skills

Desirable Background and Skills

Significant programming background in any applicable language
Knowledge of / experience with the cfengine configuration management system
Usage of Solaris Jumpstart and flash archives
Familiarity with Sun sparc-based hardware
Knowledge of Solaris 10, ZFS, and zones
Usage of any VMware product
Configuration / support of Bugzilla
Configuration / support of Subversion and / or CVS

To Apply

Please submit your resume to careers@gridzones.com