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We currently have 6 months contract opportunity for a UNIX Administrator - with our client located in Valley Forge, PA. The candidate must be willing to work three weekly night shifts from 7pm until 730am.
Job Description:
Single point of contact to troubleshoot & resolve all UNIX, Sybase, Oracle, & net-centric related problems
Monitor various systems management event consoles to recognize problem events, and react appropriately
Quickly analyze and resolve infrastructure problems
Restore service to shareholders and internal clients as quickly as possible
Work to resolve Trouble Tickets in a timely and effective manner
Operationally manage UNIX-based and net-centric environments
Interface with other Technology Operations and IT personnel (Network, Mainframe, Tier3, TE, PCOE, SI, etc.)
Assist various Tier3 staffs to perform general system administration functions for all areas of accountability (above)
Assist various Tier3 staffs in the introduction of new technologies and major functionality upgrades
Assist various Tier3 staffs in performance monitoring and capacity planning for all platforms
Develop and maintain Operational Policies and Procedures for all T2/UTS services
Support elevations to the production environment
Maintain site security
Required Skills:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
3 - 5 years (or more) extensive systems administration experience with UNIX/Solaris8, including file systems and disks, system directory structures, clusters, hardware devices, UNIX startup & shutdown, user accounts, security, managing system resources, backup & restore, terminals & printers, TCP/IP, installation & maintenance, product administration, vendor management, and performance analysis
Solid working knowledge of UNIX/Solaris hardware & software technologies, including system kernel parameters, system installation & configuration, software distribution, printing systems, and native & 3rd-party software installation
Good working knowledge of network technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, Web Load Balancing), including fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; NFS configuration, nslookup, snoop, dig, traceroute, netstat, etc.
Good working knowledge of operating system, paging & swapping, inter-process communications, devices & device drivers, file system concepts; and hardware components, such as channel controllers, disk drives, communications cards (e.g. nic.)
Good working knowledge of network & UNIX security procedures including (SSL, KERBEROS, DCE, firewalls, intrusion detection)
Experience supporting distributed database systems extremely helpful, especially Oracle & Sybase, including SQL, file systems, clustering, database structures, hardware devices, startup and shutdown, user accounts, security, managing database resources, backup & restore, and performance analysis & tuning
UNIX Korn shell scripting knowledge extremely beneficial (PERL, SED/AWK helpful, as well)
Formal Solaris System Administration & Oracle Administrator certifications extremely desirable
Project management skills helpful
Special Considerations
24X7 environment
Three day (3DWW) work week (12.5 hours per day) job [NOTE: initial training & orientation will begin as a 5-day workweek at RAD data center for a period of 3 to 6 weeks]
Probable night shift work (7P-7:30A)
Potential to transition to a day work (6A-6:30P) assignment at a later date
Rotating shift assignments, as necessary
Probable NorTech assignment, with occasional rotating assignments at RAD or NorTech data center work locations, as necessary
Please complete and copy/paste this completed skills-matrix to me with your response:
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Do you have Solaris System Administration & Oracle Administrator Certifications? Y/N:
Willing to work weekly three night shifts?
Are you a US Citizen/GC/Others?
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