Solaris Administrator

Role: Solaris Administrator

Location: NYC

Duration: Long Term

skills:

• Solaris 10 (and earlier releases)
• Veritas Suite (including Volume Manager and Clustering)
• Linux (SUSE, VMware)
• Korn Shell Scripting
• EMC SAN technologies (RDF, DMX, Symmetric Unix Command set)

Key Accountabilities:

• Identifies and troubleshoots problems.
• Responds to inquiries in development, testing, and production environments, including file servers, application servers, and database servers.
• Ensures availability and integrity of servers and services with techniques such as performance tuning and system monitoring.
• Manages all upgrades and backups.
• Identifies opportunities within current environment for simplification/automation of tasks and devises and recommends solutions.
• Designs, develops and documents custom scripts and tools to simplify and automate tasks.
• Identifies when Upgrades software upgrades and patches software are needed to ensure servers are capable of meeting increased demand; determines, recommends and implements best solution.
• Also Identifies latest vulnerabilities and determines and implements appropriate patch for server software.
• 24/7 on call support - handling complex technical issues.
• Reviews capacity planning and performance monitoring of the server application and hardware; makes recommendations for changes/enhancements needed to ensure performance levels meet expectations.
• Researches and evaluates new technologies.
• Make recommendations for changes enhancements based on research, including developing design/technical proposals.
• Research new technologies and present recommendations and justifications on major hardware and software purchases.