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Full-time Senior UNIX System Administrator (Sun Solaris, Linux)

at Elite Technical Services in Fairport, NY 14450

Technical Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Strong customer service skills
  • 10-15 years of UNIX Systems administration experience
  • 5+ years SAN Administration. Enterprise SAN implementation and management experience
  • 5+ years supporting UNIX administration for database environments
  • Must posses a high level knowledge of Solaris and Linux operating system administration.
  • Support experience including; system tuning, backups, highly available infrastructures including Sun Cluster Server SAN administration, and Veritas NetBackup. Support exposure to Oracle RAC is a PLUS
  • Experience with and understanding of virtualization technologies including Solaris 10 Zones, LDOMs, and VMWare ESX (PLUS)
  • Must be highly proficient at the UNIX command line involving a variety of utilities, interpreters and compilers and have shell programming skills.
  • Scripting experience (Perl, CSH, BASH, etc.)
  • Experience with systems and network monitoring (SNMP, host based monitoring agents, web monitoring, hardware monitoring)
  • Experience with systems network technologies (VLAN tagging, link aggregation, multipathing)

Personal Attributes
  • Must have a strong command of customer interactions and have the ability to drive technical discussions.
  • Must exhibit a strong sense of ownership and urgency in handling critical incidents.
  • Exhibit strong leadership skills
  • On call and weekend work is expected.

  • Selected Candidate will be working out of Sun’s Remote Operations Center. Preferred location is Fairport NY, 14450. Will also consider working out of Buffalo NY.
  • This is a Remote Operations support position, supporting multiple enterprise clients.
  • Perform installation, customization and maintenance of the operating
    system and system software products in support of business requirements
  • Perform system software maintenance and product upgrades.
  • Evaluate and integrate new operating system versions, drivers and hardware.
  • Monitor and tune systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
  • Conduct system analysis, configuration management and develops improvements for system software performance, availability and reliability.
  • Perform incident resolution, problem determination and root cause analysis in accordance with service level agreements.
  • Provides in-depth diagnosis for operating systems software/hardware
    failures and develops solutions.
  • Implement and maintain appropriate levels of system security.
  • Provides technical expertise for system transitions, migrations and consolidations.
  • Provides technical assistance and guidance to IT support staff, including but not limited to, DBAs, network engineers, other system
    administrators, project managers, change managers and business development staff
  • Conduct project leadership activities for new system requirements on various projects for deployment of business functions on new servers.


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