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Job title

Sr. Unix Engineer in Alpharetta GA

Company Infinite Recruiting
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Georgia, Alpharetta
Employment type Contract to Perm
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 2 - 3 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 7/9/2008
Description
If you are looking for a chance to work beside other skilled professionals just like yourself, then this could be the position for you. We currently have 2 openings with one of the leaders in the financial industry. If you feel that you are a fit for the position, please apply online!

Working Conditions:
Office environment
Light travel
24x7 on-call rotation with pager, laptop

Skills Summary:

Senior UNIX System Administrator with strong customer service, production support, and disciplined change management skills.

8+ years of IT industry experience
5+ years of 24x7 UNIX on-call IT production environment support
2+ years of RedHat system administration
2+ years Apache administration experience
2+ years JBoss application server administration experience
Strong shell scripting experience
Detailed understanding of IP-based networking, routing, firewalls, SSH, DNS, DHCP, SSL, NFS, NTP
Strong ability to troubleshoot complex production environments


Additional Skills:

Detail oriented with strong follow through skills. Candidate must be capable of taking responsibility for a task and managing it through completion. Manages time and shifting priorities effectively and maintains a positive attitude in the face of varying and sometimes conflicting business requirements. Identifies creative ways to achieve success.

Strong written and oral communication skills; capable of writing usable technical documentation, documenting and following recurring procedures, training internal customers in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with other teams.

Strong analytical problem solving skills; understands how other aspects of the IT environment such as firewalls, DNS, network design, storage architecture, and tiered architectures can impact local systems. Capable of working with other teams (Networking, Security, Development, Project Management) to troubleshoot problems.

A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; writing scripts, system installation and configuration, automated monitoring systems, security hardening, automated management, patch management, installing third-party software, and resolving open source dependency requirements.

Experienced with networking/distributed computing environment concepts; can configure NFS, DNS, understands networking concepts such as firewall filtering, gateways, and traffic management.

Disciplined planning and management of changes designed to improve the stability, performance, and security of the overall product platform. Candidate should be experienced with formal change management procedures, documentation, testing, validation, and back-out plans.


Responsibilities:

Works independently as a technical expert. Plans, conducts, and directs research on complex projects necessitating the origination and application of new and unique approaches. Will act in a liaison capacity with other departments, divisions, and organizations. Is expected to make recommendations having significant impact on the technical aspects of projects and programs. Plans, conducts, and may supervise assignments or act as the technical lead on an assignment. Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures to assignments that are complex in nature. Identifies and researches problems to determine better utilization of infrastructure resources and the impact on daily production cycle. Recommends process improvements to ensure systems usage and availability. Ensures procedures are followed and standards are met while maintaining the appropriate documentation.

Responsible for ensuring infrastructure integrity, optimal performance and maximum service availability by recommending industry best practices for component maintenance, identifying problems and inefficiencies in the current environment and making strategic recommendations for future improvements.

Daily tasks will include prioritizing problem resolution, interaction with internal organizations such as Distributed Systems (UNIX), Security, Audit, Project Management Office, Client Services, Account Managers, Production Planners, Application Development, Quality Assurance, and various other infrastructure groups. Managing the deployment of new application environments and validating all supporting components are available for use. Successful candidates will posses the ability to take ownership of production issues and drive the issues to resolution. This activity will require interfacing with numerous teams.df-tc

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Sr. Unix Engineer in Alpharetta GA