[NTLUG:Jobs] Unix/Linux Engineer_Kaztronix

[Christopher Cox]

Location: Irving, TX
Referred through: Chris Cox


JOB DESCRIPTION:

The engineer will perform pro-active work within the environment to maintain 
best practices and keep a steady state. The engineer will be responsible for 
establishing standards and best practices for UNIX operating system and 
application administration as well as hardware support. The engineer will serve 
as the highest escalation point within the support team for UNIX operating 
system and application support and administration as well as hardware support. 
This will include troubleshooting and resolution of re-active incidents as well 
as root cause determination analysis for customer issues running on UNIX based 
Operating Systems. The engineer must possess a high technical aptitude and be 
able to logically step through a problem even when dealing with unfamiliar 
environments and products. The engineer will be available for escalations during 
and after regular business hours. They will communicate with client services and 
customers as needed regarding incidents and changes.


Qualified candidates MUST possess the following:
• 7+ years’ experience and a solid experience profile that can be demonstrated 
with UNIX or UNIX like operating systems using one or more of the operating 
systems below:
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel x86-64
o Solaris 8,9, or 10 on Intel X86-64 or SPARC
o HPUX
o AIX
o FreeBSD, OpenBSD
• 7+ years large environment experience working with enterprise server 
platforms; preferably HP Proliant, IBM xSeries, and Sun.
• Strong working knowledge of Internet networking technologies and principals 
including TCP/IP and DNS/BIND.
• Proven ability to absorb, master and leverage emerging technologies.
• 3+ years creating code and scripting in operating system shells.
• 7+ year’s general UNIX system administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience in support of and administration with any of the following:
o Apache
o TomCat
o JBOSS
o PHP
o MYSQL
o DNS/BIND
o Postfix
o Sendmail
• Networking architecture and troubleshooting, operations management.
• Experience in supporting I.T. systems and infrastructure in a 24x7 production 
environment.
• Experience and expertise supporting UNIX Server 2003, 2008, UNIX clustering, 
IIS, and MS Active Directory in a systems administrator role.
• Expertise in UNIX administration utilizing scripting and other forms of 
automation.
• Experience supporting and administering HP or IBM server and storage hardware.
• Web technology experience for the MS UNIX platform, including multiple tier 
web/application layer designs.
• Expertise with network troubleshooting at the server level.
• Expertise with DNS, WINS and UNIX networking protocols.
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills, with logical problem 
solving Strong understanding of troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience with high availability environment with 99.99% SLA

Preferred qualifications include:
• Virtualization experience using VMWare, XEN, or VirtualBox. Prefer VMWare VCP 
Certifications.
• Certified as RHCE for version 4 or 5.
• Solaris SCSA for version 10.
• HPUX Certifications
• Oracle experience as it relates to troubleshooting and support.
• Technical Lead experience or senior level escalations experience.
• Intel, AMD based blade server experience, using any UNIX or LINUX version.
• Sun Blade System experience.
• EGenera Blade system experience.
• Monitoring tools - HP Openview, Remedy, and Quest & Sun.
• Veritas Software Suite knowledge (HA, VCS, NetBackup).
• Practical or educational background in development principles.
• Any developer experience using PERL, PHP, C++ with an emphasis on LAMP stack 
support and troubleshooting.
• Performs pro-active work within the environment to maintain best practices for 
UNIX platform systems.
• Recommend appropriate solutions for problem resolution and work with the 
account managers and customers to implement the solutions.
• Assist with development of deployment and upgrade strategies for updates to 
UNIX platform systems.
• Audit patch levels and upgrades for UNIX systems.
• Work directly with customers to validate, confirm and assess UNIX platform 
system requirements.
• Assist with development of technology and solution specifications for new and 
existing designs.
• Communicate with internal teams for awareness of known errors.
• Create performance benchmarks and perform capacity and performance assessments 
of UNIX platform systems.
• Identify & develop process/procedures/standards for UNIX platform systems.
• Plan, recommend, and implement capacity, growth and changes for UNIX platform 
architecture.
• Test and implement new releases of UNIX software where required.
• Works break fix issues and change requests to completion while actively and 
thoroughly documenting all work in a ticketing system. Schedules customer 
conference calls to assist in troubleshooting when needed.
• Available for escalations during and outside of regular business hours. 
Responds to escalation calls promptly after hours and continues work through to 
resolution.





Anthony Russo

Corporate Recruiting Specialist

Kaztronix, LLC

McLean, VA 22102

(703)-356-5366

arusso at kaztronix.com

Kaztronix

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