Job Description :
Hardware:
Knowledge of Midrange/Highend HPE ProLiant and Blade servers, HPE Converged systems (CS500, CS900)
Various options of booting the server from GRUB Prompt
Upgrade Firmware of various components
Vendor Co-ordination & follow-up with Hardware Vendors for the troubleshooting and the maintenance activities
Knowledge on P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2P (Virtual to Physical) migration activities
General Responsibility:
Adhering to SLAs
ITIL Processes awareness and adhering to
Helping team members in case of Issues/Technical Problems
Handling tickets / requests
Troubleshooting technical issues
Ensuring that the processes are adhered to
Understanding of Multi-geo support environment
Ensure maximum uptime according to the SLA
Implementing new technologies and design changes
Applying patches/upgrades to maintain security level
Assist in implementation of Data centre consolidation
Health check-up of Linux servers
Defining parameters and threshold for server proactive health monitoring
Day-to-Day reporting tasks
Vendor co-ordination & followup
Perform H/W & performance monitoring and implement recommendations
Operating System:
Awareness of ITIL-3 Process
Upgrade the OS, VxVM, HP Service Gurad using offline and Live methods
Configuration and Administration of xen/kvm
Backup and restore of OS
Operating System Hardening
Knowledge of system security, knowledge of SELinux would be an advantage
Knowledge of device driver installation and configuration
Knowledge of NAS, SAN storage, HBA cards and multipathing
Configuring Multipathing software on server to access redundant storage paths
NAS Configuration in Client side only
Good knowledge of Linux device files and creation
Build knowledge of atleast one cluster technology (RHCS/HP Service guard/VCS/RAC)
Good knowledge of Oracle RAC cluster in Linux
Knowledge of Cluster Package Build, Stop, Start, Failover, Failback and other maintenance activies
Knowledge of build and manage the Disaster Recovery setup in any one of the cluster technology
Working Knowledge on the Disaster Recovery Exercise activities
Addition or removal of nodes to a cluster
Good knowledge on primary/secondary DNS servers and zone transfer
FTP server administration and chrooting
Knowledge of Apache virtual hosting
Knowledge of SSL web site configuration
Kernel understanding and tuning experience
Advance knowledge on LVM and Cluster LVM
Good knowledge of RedHat Global file system or OCFS
Working knowledge on one of the mail server sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail
Advance Scripting (Bash, sed, awk and perl)
Deployment of atleast one Centralised Authentication Service (NIS, LDAP)
Advance troubleshooting skills
Network Administration:
Configuration and Administration of various Utility Servers (NTP, DHCP, SAMBA)