Job Description :
Infrastructure Engineer (Unix & Linux) resource. Following are the required skill sets for this position.

Key requirements:
Must be a strategic and systematic thinker with the ability to dive into the details as required.
Must have creative ability (introduce/apply new ideas) and also be pragmatic.
Must be process oriented (ability to define and execute processes
Experience with full software development life cycle (SDLC
Possess consulting skills, leadership qualities, credibility, and self-confidence.
Provide technical leadership for supporting UNIX and Virtualization platform across distributed environments.
Establish recommendations and guidelines for the development, test, operations and application support environments.
Provide information needed to assess the risk of production deployment of a business critical application: installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures.
Assist in determining overall hardware and software configuration along with capacity projections and planning for future support of growing operations.
Needs to be extensible to changing platform requirements or other progressions in the distributed computing model.

Technical Expertise:
Strong ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
Expert knowledge of Solaris Operating System
Experience with Solaris container/zone a must have
Understanding of networking is required
Need to have knowledge of installing, configuring and maintaining of Sun/Solaris and Linux OS
Experience with Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata and Super Cluster) build and configuration.
Working knowledge of Volume manger (Veritas, Solaris etc is required, ZFS knowledge is required
Knowledge of a clustering software (Veritas or Sun) is required
Experience with external storage (SAN/NAS) is required from server - configuration and administration prospective
Working knowledge of IPMP and power path is a plus
Shell scripting knowledge as Unix Administrator is required
Experience with Linux (Red Hat) is a must
Working knowledge of backup and restore of UNIX servers
Knowledge of capacity monitoring and management of UNIX servers
High Availability concept/knowledge will be a big plus (i.e. Local Datacenter HA or DR across multiple DC
Knowledge of proxy service, naming services (LDAP, DNS etc is needed
Solaris Packages and RPM maintenance and participate in patch management
Any working knowledge of DTrace will be highly preferred
Understands boot process and run levels, paging and swapping, inter-process communication, functions of devices and device drivers and file system concepts
Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure

Other related knowledge:
Understanding of various hardware platforms is required.
Working knowledge of Networking is essential
Understanding of Windows based security and integration with Active Directory is desired
Understanding of enterprise networking is desired
Prior experience of development and n-tier architecture would be very helpful

Education/Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field preferred
5-7 years’ experience required

Responsibility level
Exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
             

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