Systems Administration Senior Specialist - Unix CritInfra

Title: Systems Administration Senior Specialist - Unix CritInfra

Location Address: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

• This role is for a Unix L3 specialist to the Unix CritInfra Support Team with the following responsibilities:
• Provide SRE Support to the Firm's Critical Infrastructure (Oxygen Systems) in Follow-The-Sun model
• Provide rotational On-call support, weekend project work
• Proactive health & hygiene tasks to maintain operation 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

Skill Required:

• 6+ years of Unix/Linux Administration Enterprise Level Experience in large, distributed environment
• Experience in Project Management, Incident & Change Management and Reporting
• In-depth knowledge of Linux (RedHat) 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 in high pressure situations for outage handling, management, or resolution

Skills/Certification 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.