Solaris Administrator

Role: Solaris Administrator Location: NYC Duration: Long Term skills: - Solaris 10 (and earlier releases) - Veritas Suite (including Volume Manager and Clustering) - Linux (SUSE, VMware) - Korn Shell Scripting - EMC SAN technologies (RDF, DMX, Symmetric Unix Command set) Key Accountabilities: - Identifies and troubleshoots problems. - Responds to inquiries in development, testing, and production environments, including file servers, application servers, and database servers. - Ensures availability and integrity of servers and services with techniques such as performance tuning and system monitoring. - Manages all upgrades and backups. - Identifies opportunities within current environment for simplification/automation of tasks and devises and recommends solutions. - Designs, develops and documents custom scripts and tools to simplify and automate tasks. - Identifies when Upgrades software upgrades and patches software are needed to ensure servers are capable of meeting increased demand; determines, recommends and implements best solution. - Also Identifies latest vulnerabilities and determines and implements appropriate patch for server software. - 24/7 on call support - handling complex technical issues. - Reviews capacity planning and performance monitoring of the server application and hardware; makes recommendations for changes/enhancements needed to ensure performance levels meet expectations. - Researches and evaluates new technologies. - Make recommendations for changes enhancements based on research, including developing design/technical proposals. - Research new technologies and present recommendations and justifications on major hardware and software purchases. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.