LINUX Admin

This position requires a person having 10+ years of relevant expertise in the given technology areas. The key competencies should include excellent knowledge and skills with various platforms like Red Hat Linux,g VMware and Solaris. Candidate should be able to quickly understand and resolve issues, mitigate risks and dependencies and the ability to drive projects and resources to completion.

Essential Technical Skills and Competencies:

• SME in Red Hat Linux Operating system with Strong Virtualization knowledge with VMWare and/or OpenShift.
• 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 virtualization knowledge on VMWare.
• Excellent knowledge on Solaris 11 Operating system, zones, ZFS, Zpool.
• Excellent knowledge on Veritas Volume Manager, install configure and troubleshoot Veritas cluster issues.
• Good knowledge of Cloud platforms such as VMware, Redhat OpenShift.
• Drive automation and service improvement efforts.
• Excellent Shell or Perl script writing skills.
• Able to learn new technologies as needed and open to changing technological direction as required by the team to lead new projects and initiatives
• Experience in SAN and NAS Storage, RAID and LVM Management
• Good knowledge about the Virtualization and Cluster (Veritas Cluster Services)
• NIS, NFS, FTP, SAMBA IPTABLES, DNS, SNMP, DHCP and SNMP administration

• Excellent knowledge on YUM/Satellite Server.
• Should be able to resolve complex issues and provide solutions as per industry best practices.
• Understanding with configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Patch & Package management, Security, Server hardening, etc.
• Working Knowledge of Centrify User management tool.
• User Management, Performance Analysis, capacity planning and monitoring
• Effectively troubleshoot Hardware and Operating system related issues.
• Configuration and administration of LVM and Veritas logical volume manager
• Installation and configuration of HA environment using Linux or Veritas Cluster
• Should be able to drive the critical issues and effectively communicate over the calls.
• 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.
• Solid Understanding of Storage & Blade Technologies that integrate with Virtualization
• Good understanding of routing and switching technologies
• Good knowledge of server and blade (HP) architecture

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.