System Engineer (Solaris) Local to CA

L3 Systems Engineer (Primary Solaris)

Client: Ensono
Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
Rate: $65/hr (C2C/1099) | $60/hr (W2)
On-Call: 24x7 rotation

Must Have:

Primary expertise in Oracle Solaris (Linux-only profiles will not be considered)

🧩 Key Responsibilities:

• L3 escalation support, RCA, performance tuning & capacity planning
• Administer Solaris 10/11 & RHEL/CentOS environments
• Manage Zones, LDOMs, Linux virtualization (KVM/VMware)
• Automation using Shell/Python/Ansible
• Patching, upgrades, security hardening, incident coordination

🧠 Mandatory Skills

🟠 Solaris (Primary)

• Oracle Solaris 10/11 administration
• Zones, LDOMs, ZFS, SVM, NIS and Kerbores
• Device Pathing, Root Encapsulation
• Tools: DTrace, mdb, prstat, SMF

🔵 Linux (Secondary)

• RHEL 7/8/9 administration
• LVM, ext4, XFS, NFS, systemd, kernel tuning
• Tools: sar, vmstat, iostat, strace

🟢 Common

• Shell scripting (Bash/Ksh), Python
• Ansible (or similar)
• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS
• Monitoring: Splunk/Grafana/Nagios
• ITSM: Incident, Problem, Change

🎯 Summary

Looking for a Solaris-first L3 Engineer with strong experience in Zones, LDOMs, ZFS, SVM, performance tuning, and RCA in production environments.