Linux Administrator

This position requires a person having 9 to 12 years of experience in the given technology areas. The key competencies should include excellent knowledge and skills with various platforms Like Redhat Linux, OpenShift, VMware and Solaris). Candidate should be able to quickly understand and resolve issues, mitigate risks and dependencies.

Essential Technical Skills And Competencies

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 multi-site 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.