Linux Unix Engineer

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Position: Unix (Solaris) Systems Engineer

Duration: 3 months

Location: Chicago, IL

Need an experienced Unix Systems Engineer with at least 8 years of Unix system administration experience for a contract role located in the Chicago loop. This position will provide 3rd level technical systems and applications infrastructure support for client's ITs Unix Engineering distributed systems. This individual has excellent trouble shooting skills and analytical skills in order to react to alerts from our monitoring tools as well as Service Desk notifications to resolve incidents.

Responsibilities

Principle responsibilities include the following:

Monitor external and internal enterprise monitoring tools for system alerts

Perform analysis and trending of Unix Engineering applications/services from monitoring data

Investigate and troubleshoot Incident tickets (Priority P1-P5) for all Platform - Unix Engineering environments

Keep Service Desk informed of the status of open incidents per the Operational Level Agreements (OLA)

Engage and collaborate with other 2nd level support teams for incident resolution

Engage and collaborate with other 3rd level support and management as needed, remaining engaged for knowledge management and documentation

Provide support for user administration and repeatable work requests

Follow standard practices and procedures and Platform Unix Engineering operational documentation

Proactively recommends additional areas of documentation required and updates support and runbook documentation

Capable of training other users and team members in application problems and operating system fundamentals

Proactively lead and consistently work on Unix Engineering projects, work requests as it relates to Platform Unix Engineering Discretionary Investments and Discretionary Support items

Proactively lead and consistently work on Platform Unix Engineering involvement with Release Management processes

Proactively work and support Problem/Incident/Change Management processes

Job Competencies

Tools, platforms and technologies

Sun Solaris 8/9/10

Symantec/Veritas: Storage Foundations/File system(VxVM/VxFS), Veritas Cluster Server VCS/VVR/GCO, NetBackup

Enterprise Monitoring Tools (e.g. HPs Sitescope, Openview, BAC/BPM; Gomez)

Apache and Iplanet web servers

Middleware Engineering/J2SE Applications(a plus) - BEA Weblogic, BEA Tuxedo, Java Tomcat, Tibco/MQ Series, JBOSS, SITA Runway

Unix shell scripting/Perl

SAN Architecture and Technologies which include storage subsystems hardware and software, specifically HP/HDS storage subsystems, Brocade switches, NAS

Networking e.g. DNS, protocols, load balancing, etc.

Incident/Problem Management Tools (e.g. HP ITSM, Peregrine Systems)

Design/Architecture of distributed computing environments and highly available (HA and RAS) systems

Windows and MS Office tools

Well versed in Internet technologies(a plus)

DB Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i/10G, 10G RAC (a plus)

Linux (RedHat/SuSe) (a plus)

Linux operating systems, specifically Red Hat and SUSE Linux

Linux clustering technology, specifically RHEL Clustering and VCS

x86 hardware, firmware and device drivers for HP Proliant servers

Linux software distribution and recovery tools including rpm, RHN, Satellite server, Kickstart.

Linux disk management tools including Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Veritas Volume Manager

Content Management systems like Vignette product suite (a plus)

ITIL Foundation(a plus)

Education

BS in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Experience

Typically requires a minimum of 8-10 years of related experience

Skills

Strong technical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skillsExcellent knowledge of distributed computing technologies especially in the Unix Engineering client/server technology space and eCommerce/Internet space

Strong customer focus and service oriented individual

Ability to work and contribute as a team member.

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