Monday, August 18, 2008

Intrado - UNIX System Administrator

[rmiug-jobs] Digest Number 4695

UNIX System Administrator, Longmont, CO
Posted by: "jeff103us" jeff.sherard@gmail.com jeff103us
Date: Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:35 pm ((PDT))

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Please send resumes directly to:
jeff.sherard@... w/System
Administrator II (08-125, 08-121) in the Subject Line.

System Administrator II (08-125, 08-121)
Responsible for the proper sizing, installation and day-to-day
operations of multiple hardware and software platforms in addition to
ensuring the proper functioning of the hardware and software.
Maintains
the highest level of systems integrity by monitoring application
software and resolving application failures. Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 5 years
experience in specialization on managed systems in telecommunication
or
other high-technology industries; or equivalent combination of
education
and experience. Previous 24x7 on call experience. In depth knowledge
of
most basic system administration tools and processes; for example:
ability to boot and shutdown a machine, troubleshoot and resolve boot
issues, add and remove user accounts and groups and use backup
programs
and other system utilities. In depth understanding of networked or
distributed computing environment concepts; for example: ability to
use
the route command, add a workstation to a network and mount remote
file
systems. Fundamental understanding of assigned operating system; for
example, understands job control, soft and hard links as well as
distinctions between the kernel and the shell. Proficient with most OS
commands and utilities. Proven Telephony skills that include alarming
and system escalation procedures. Ability to write scripts in some
administrative language (Tk, Perl, vi, a shell). (Posted 6/10/08)

Professional Experience
- Minimum 5-10 years experience as a UNIX System Administrator
(OS/HW -
Linux, Solaris, HP-UX)

UNIX/Linux Platform Skills
- User management
- Device management
- Drivers and the Kernel
- Boot Process
- Job Control
- File-system concepts
- TCP/IP Networking
- IP Routing
- UNIX System Backups
- OS Security Concepts
- System performance trending and analysis
- Scripting (SHELL, PERL)
- OS Performance tuning/monitoring
- Disk Management
- File-system / Volume Management
- HW/SW Raid Technologies
- HW right sizing

Experience Supporting Mid-Large Sized UNIX Environments (50+ servers)
- Sun Microsystems (Sparc/x86 Servers) / Solaris 8,9,10
- DELL (PowerEdge Servers/x86, x86_64) / RedHat Linux RHEL 2.1, 3.0,
4.0,5.0 / Solaris 10/x86
- Hewlett Packard (PA-Risc/Itanium) / HP-UX 11.x

Deploying and Administering Core UNIX/Linux Services
- DHCP
- DNS
- NTP
- NFS
- NIS
- SNMP
- SYSLOG
- SMTP
- HTTP
- SSH
- TCP Wrappers