RESPONSIBILITIES
§ Receive general instructions for new duties from supervisor.
§ Administers a mid-size site alone, or assists in administration of a larger site.
§ Initiates some new responsibilities and helps plan for the future of the site and network.
§ Manage novice system administrators or operators.
§ Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence on the purchasing process.
§ Serves as the first line of defense against intrusion and inadvertent system damage.
§ Configure and maintain security procedures within the Datacenter inline with ISO27001 and ISMS policies.
§ Provide assistance to tier 2, tier 3, Professional Services and clients.
§ Provides technical expertise in cross-functional and intra-departmental efforts.
§ Responsible for all Solaris and Linux systems.
§ Responsible for backup system daily tasks, maintenance, and upgrades.
§ Provide daily analysis of server logs.
§ Responsible for Archiving and disaster Recovery solutions in windows/Unix mixed
configuration.
§ Develop configuration, performance and fault isolation procedures.
§ Installation, Live upgrade and configured Jumpstart for Solaris 2.8 which changed average
machine build time for three days (built to our specific environment in addition to basic OS
install) to 1 hour and 30 minutes.
§ Researched support contract renewals for hardware and software.
§ Carrying 24hr/365 on-calls UNIX support.
§ HTML, code writing, cgi-bin scripts in Perl & C, C-shell, C, awk, grep.
§ Shell C, C shell and Perl Programming.
§ Deal with vendors and 3 rd party suppliers
QUALIFICATION
§ Masters in Computer Science
§ Bachelors in Computer Science
§ Significant programming background in any applicable language.
EXPERIENCE
§ Masters with 3 years working experience in the same field
§ Bachelors with 5 years working experience
SKILLS
§ Have strong inter-personal and communication skills. Capable of training users in complex topics, making presentations to internal groups.
§ Able to write intricate system and user documentation. Capable of writing and explaining purchase justifications.
§ Independent problem solving; self-directed, self-starting.
§ Very comfortable with most aspects of the UNIX operating system; paging/swapping, inter-process communication, devices and device driver fundamentals, file system concepts like inode and super block.
§ Familiar with fundamental networking/distributed computing environments and concepts.
§ Can configure NFS, Send mail, iptables and hardening, use nslookup or research to check information in the DNS.
§ Ability to write detailed scripts in at least one, preferably two administrative languages, (shell scripts, Perl, Tk).
§ Ability to perform at least minimal debugging and modification of C programs.
§ Ability to perform most security audits, and protect the system against intrusion.
§ Ability to perform installation and configuration of most application servers (i.e. JRUN, iPlanet, Web logic, Web sphere).
§ Ability to perform installation of Database Servers like oracle.
§ Ability to perform installation and configuration of any HA or Clustering.
Candidates who fulfill the above requirement are requested to submit their resumes at jobs@talent-edge.net latest by 4th
September 2008.