212740 Sr Unix Administrator
Procom Services
Company Description
Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy
Specialties
• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)
Job Description
- Provide technical leadership in daily system support and operation for critical and complex production systems.
- Perform Capacity Planning, Infrastructure Design, and Systems Administration.
- Create robust, high availability and secure design for UNIX/Linux server infrastructure.
- Provide 7x24 rotating Level 3 Support for Unix/Linux and storage infrastructure for various group companies.
- Closely work with remote Unix/Linux team for day-to-day incident and service request tickets.
- Work with hardware and 3rd vendor for system troubleshooting.
- Interface with the clients with related to technical issue/inquiry/request.
- Setting various policies for applications and infrastructure - patching schedules, deployment of releases, testing and system readiness.
- Manage HP/UX environment in Production/Testing/Development environments.
- Configure and manage Virtual Server environments, Storage infrastructure and DR installations.
- Administer Systems Monitoring; Troubleshoot SW/HW Issues Methodically.
- Process knowledge of Configuration management & Change control.
- Create and update technical documentations (system configuration and operation).
Qualifications
- 3-5 years experience as a RedHat Linux System Administrator
- Strong background in HP-UX 10/11
- Strong background in Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 and RHEL 4.x/5.x
- Strong Background in AIX
- Hands-on experience with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, DiskSuite and LVM
- Strong experiences in SAN devices (EMC Celerra/CLARiiON, NetApp Filer, Brocade switch)
- Hands-on experience in NetBackup backup software
- Experience of jumpstart and kickstart implementation
- Requires excellent communication skills and ability to be available after-hours
- Certifications in Solaris, Linux and/or SAN are preferred.
- BS in (Computer) Science/Engineering or equivalent IT work experience.
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, LDAP, DNS, NIS and SMTP.
- Proficiency in NAS and Storage Area networking as well as Backup & Recovery administration.
- Experiences of DNS, Apache, Sendmail, Bind, LDAP, and ProofPoint.
- Experience in data center or network operations with HA (high availability) and/ or 24X7 service level.
- Must have strong experience with Disaster Recovery solutions.