Linux Administrator

Job Title: Linux Administrator

Location: San Ramon California

Mode : Contract (6 Months) (Day 1 Onsite)

Essential Technical Skills and Competencies: Min 10years exp required

• Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communications analytical and presentation skills.
• Should possess Certification in Red Hat Linux administration.
• Excellent knowledge on Linux Operating system with good virtualization knowledge on VMWare.
• Excellent knowledge on Solaris 11 Operating system zones ZFS Zpool.
• Excellent knowledge on Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas cluster.
• Good knowledge of Cloud platforms such as VMware Redhat OpenShift.
• Experience in writing Shell or Perl script
• Experience in SAN and NAS Storage RAID and LVM Management
  • NFS FTP IPTABLES DNS and DHCP Administration
• Working knowledge on YUM/Satellite Server
• Working Knowledge of Centrify User management tool.
• Patch & Package management Security Server hardening etc.
• User Management Performance Analysis capacity planning and monitoring
• Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue
• Configuration and administration of LVM and Veritas logical volume manager
• Installation and configuration of HA environment using Veritas Cluster
• Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written)
• Able to provide technical solutions on various requirements
• Experience in Server Management (Server build/ migration etc.)
• Should have used any backup management software i.e. Actifio TSM etc.
• Should participate in Automation and service improvement plans.
• Good understanding of routing and switching technologies
• Working knowledge on ITSM tool JIRA

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in multiple Geo Redundant sites (Preferred knowledge of VRP tool)
• Experience with technologies for continuous multisite replication
• Familiar with the following technologies: Server Hardware OS OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) IBM AIX Sun Solaris VM Ware Storage SANs; Oracle Databases; Network Switches.
• Certifications in VMware or other relevant technologies like OpenShift Dockers would be an added advantage.
• Prior experience of working in a DevOps / Agile environment will be added advantage.