212740 Sr Unix Administrator

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company. Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include: • Application Development • Project Management • Quality Assurance • Business/Systems Analysis • Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence • Infrastructure & Network Services • Risk Management & Compliance • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery • Security & Privacy Specialties • Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation) • Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation) • ICAP (Contractor Payroll) • Flextrack (Vendor Management System) - Provide technical leadership in daily system support and operation for critical and complex production systems. - Perform Capacity Planning, Infrastructure Design, and Systems Administration. - Create robust, high availability and secure design for UNIX/Linux server infrastructure. - Provide 7x24 rotating Level 3 Support for Unix/Linux and storage infrastructure for various group companies. - Closely work with remote Unix/Linux team for day-to-day incident and service request tickets. - Work with hardware and 3rd vendor for system troubleshooting. - Interface with the clients with related to technical issue/inquiry/request. - Setting various policies for applications and infrastructure - patching schedules, deployment of releases, testing and system readiness. - Manage HP/UX environment in Production/Testing/Development environments. - Configure and manage Virtual Server environments, Storage infrastructure and DR installations. - Administer Systems Monitoring; Troubleshoot SW/HW Issues Methodically. - Process knowledge of Configuration management & Change control. - Create and update technical documentations (system configuration and operation). - 3-5 years experience as a RedHat Linux System Administrator - Strong background in HP-UX 10/11 - Strong background in Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 and RHEL 4.x/5.x - Strong Background in AIX - Hands-on experience with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, DiskSuite and LVM - Strong experiences in SAN devices (EMC Celerra/CLARiiON, NetApp Filer, Brocade switch) - Hands-on experience in NetBackup backup software - Experience of jumpstart and kickstart implementation - Requires excellent communication skills and ability to be available after-hours - Certifications in Solaris, Linux and/or SAN are preferred. - BS in (Computer) Science/Engineering or equivalent IT work experience. - Solid understanding of TCP/IP, LDAP, DNS, NIS and SMTP. - Proficiency in NAS and Storage Area networking as well as Backup & Recovery administration. - Experiences of DNS, Apache, Sendmail, Bind, LDAP, and ProofPoint. - Experience in data center or network operations with HA (high availability) and/ or 24X7 service level. - Must have strong experience with Disaster Recovery solutions. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO WORK WITH CANDIDATES ON H1B VISAS OR CANDIDATES REPRESENTED BY THIRD PARTIES.