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General responsibilities and expectations include but not limited to:

• The Solaris Systems Administrator will provide enterprise-wide Unix System infrastructure support for complex system and interconnected technologies that require day-to- day support and administration in order to maintain optimum performance and utilization.
• Provide support in the following areas: Sun Solaris Operational Support, Veritas Cluster administration and server virtualization, Enterprise Sun LDAP for UNIX systems and applications.

Job Summary and Responsibilities:

• Perform Unix Systems Administration for Sun Solaris Systems to include: Sun SunFire series,M3000/M4000/M5000/T5120/T5220/T5240/T5440/V240/V280/V490 etc.
• Maintain Solaris infrastructure environment at Client data centers during business hours and off-hours; troubleshoot Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.
• Install, configure, and maintain SUN Solaris server equipment, disk arrays, tape libraries, virtual tape libraries and terminal servers; Solaris routine operation functions.
• Provide data protection, recovery and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery and business continuity methods in Solaris environment.
• Perform routine backup and recovery for data protection and integrity for Solaris servers; monitor Solaris infrastructure which consists of complex sets of equipment and system software; provide proactive remediation.
• Perform proactive monitoring for high availability, System data protection, backup and restore, UNIX central authentication, user account management, disk storage management, hardware and OS maintenance, and application maintenance.
• Install, configure and maintain highly optimized Virtualized UNIX environment using Zone/Container, LDOM and VMware virtualization technologies; UNIX High Availability environment consisting of different HA techniques i.e. clustering, load balancing, and cluster file systems; UNIX storage environment using Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager and ZFS.
• The ability to keep up with updates in the UNIX environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work within strict deadlines and with a wide spectrum of people; Project Leader experience.

Primary Skills:

• Five to Ten years experience providing Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration support for large scale complex unix environments.
• Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration.
• Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage foundation and other High Availability techniques in the UNIX environment; Veritas NetBackup.
• Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager and ZFS.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in UNIX environment; EMC storage array based SAN environment.
• Knowledge of Sun Entry-Level, Midrange and High-End Enterprise servers i.e. E25K and Sun disk arrays.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, HTTP
• Sun Virtualization technologies: Container and LDOM.
• SUN LDAP or Oracle Directory Services/LDAP; Sun SMC and Quest monitoring tools.

Secondary Skills:

• Shell scripting and/or Perl scripting experience.
• System level support for Oracle application and database Servers, Java application
• servers, Websphere or other large-scale databases in a UNIX environment.
• UNIX environment with Oracle, Java application server and Websphere or other large-scale databases.

Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years