System Administrator (Unix Admin)

Job Details:
System Administrator (Unix Admin)
San Jose, CA (Need Only Locals)
Hybrid - 2 days/week work from office
Contract (W2)

Job Description:

Role Overview

We are seeking UNIX Administrator with excellent technical, process and automation skills to be part of High-Performance Cloud Operations Team.
As an Infrastructure Administrator, this person is responsible for the daily administration of Linux and Unix servers in a business application environment. This includes general system administration tasks, software and hardware support, system configuration, system monitoring. This person must have excellent Linux/Unix administration experience, with customer relation skills. Candidate should be able to work with business application administrators, helping troubleshoot their applications and guide them with best practices. Candidate must be able to express thoughts clearly and capable of working in a team or as a sole contributor. Individual should be self-motivated with very good communication skills. Primary point responsible for the overall operability, resiliency, performance, and capacity of owned production services.

What you ll do System Administration

This person would be responsible for the day-to-day administration of all Linux based servers. This includes monitoring the trouble ticket queue, system troubleshooting, hardware and software system changes, scripting, patching, system performance monitoring, system sizing, system integration, upgrade implementation, hardware diagnostics and on call support.

Application support
This person would work with application administrators to help troubleshoot and fine-tune applications and also if required guide application administrators in best practices related to using the underlying UNIX infrastructure.

Documentation
Maintain all system documentation.

What you need to succeed
Excellent hands on experience with RHEL/CentOS/SUSE including lvm device configuration and management, Kickstart/ Jumpstart, Yum/Satellite, networking etc.
Good at scripting shell or Python for automation
Proven ability to perform UNIX builds such as RHEL and SUSE
Working knowledge of VMWare vCenter, System imaging, TCP/IP functionality, networking, Remote administration systems (iLOM, ILO or iDRAC) a must
HP & Dell rack-mount server hardware knowledge
Must have strong communication skills and ability to work individually, within a team.
Working knowledge of AIX, Configuration management tool such as SaltStack, Chef or Ansible would be a plus.