Linux Engineer required

Hi,

 

Need ONLY LOCALS

Location : City:Brisbane, State: CA - California
Primary Skills : Linux,Linux RHEL 5.4,SUN Solaris OS 10,VCS - Veritas Cluster Server,VxVM - Veritas Volume Manager
Secondary Skills : DNS,LDAP
Project Duration : 6 months +

Linux Engineer
Job Description: General Summary:

The Linux Engineer is responsible for system design and implementation of a large-scale e-commerce infrastructure. He/She is responsible for 3rd level system support in a mission-critical, 24/7 environment. He/She is responsible for mentoring junior staff and providing technical leadership to large-scale projects. He/She drives technical meetings, makes operational and strategic decisions, influences our systems strategy, and executes on the tactical plan. He/She interacts with business and PM’s to design and implement new functionality.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Project work 80%

• Deploy and manage mission critical systems.
• Planning scalability/capacity architecture to support 2x business growth every year.
• Lead Failure Point Analysis for subsystem and implement resulting projects.
• Make design recommendations to software and hardware projects and participate in technical reviews.
• Direct experience with managing multi site data center production environments.
• Demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital role in the design, operation, implementation, and maintenance of clients web properties running in 24x7x52 environments.

2. Production Support – 20%

• Provide 24/7 on-call systems operational support on rotation basis.
• Identify and resolve more than 95% issues proactively with system monitoring tool
• When on-call, ensure the System has sufficient capacity.
• Effectively follow change management guidelines for all the changes made to the production and pre-production systems.
• Lead initiative to develop scripts and other programs for systems monitoring and maintenance.
• Lead projects and manage and mentor junior Systems Engineer
• Lead performance analysis and tuning of the database and application systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Functional Competencies:

Experience & Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of Linux systems experience.
o 5+ years of system administration experience with Linux/Solaris.
o 2+ years of systems design/architecture experience.
• Solid experience with RHEL 4 & 5. Knowledge of SUSE also desirable.
• HP & Sun hardware, high end server experience a plus
• Expertise in administration of server services - Authentication (NIS, AD, LDAP, SingleSignOn), RHN Satellite & Proxy Servers and DNS.
• Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) experience required; and VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS), LVM or other High-availability service.
• ECommerce active/active site build, design and failure point analysis experience.
• Experience in a large (1000+) server environment.
• Ability to document project designs.
• History of progressively complex project management experience.

Minimum educational level:

• B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience
• Bachelors in any of the engineering disciplines or Technical certification in systems management and administration.

Best Regards,

Kumar Varada

One Neshaminy Interplex

Suite 101

Trevose, PA 19053|| Tel: 215-780-0875(Direct) || Fax: (888) 505-0368 || 

Email: varadak@suryasys.com || web: www.suryasys.com , ||Yahoo IM: kumar_suryasys ||

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