Unix/ Linux System Engineer | San Jose, CA - 6+Months.....

Hi Partners,

Kindly find below job description of Unix/Linux System Engineer placed at San Jose, CA. Kindly submit the resume ASAP as client is moving pretty fast. Kindly focus more at the highlighted keywords, as the client would be asking and paying attention to these skills more.

You can rush the resumes at Pankaj@Westcoastllc.com or Pankaj.staffing@gmail.com

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

 

• Evaluating new & emerging technologies, including review and authoring test plans, test execution, performance data collection and analysis, employing a scientific yet business-based approach to evaluation criteria.
• Participating as a key contributor on cross-functional projects (supporting business or infrastructure projects through a variety of systems administrator tasks, such as: configuring systems, installing software, analyzing system designs & performance bottlenecks, providing guidance in technical meetings, researching architectural issues, providing status updates and attending project meetings).
• Assessing resource utilization to troubleshoot and performance tune systems.
• Building, maintaining and upgrading hundreds of Solaris and Linux systems.
• Automating common tasks via scripting language(s).  Some scripting/programming may be required for project work.
• Physical receiving and handling of systems, including vendor loaner gear for evaluation.
• Addressing provisioning, decommissioning, configuration and break/fix for Sun, HP, IBM, NetApp, Hitachi & other hardware.
• On-call rotational responsibilities accompany this role.

 

Job Requirements:

 

The highly qualified candidate will have the following experience and behaviors:

 

• Minimum 5 years Linux/Unix Systems Administration experience, including system imaging technologies (Jumpstart, Kickstart).
• Current expertise with Veritas Foundation Suite (VxVM, VxFS) or Solstice Volume Manager (SVM) in a storage area network (SAN) environment.  Solaris ZFS and Linux LVM/MD experience a plus.
• Working expertise with at least one common scripting language (python, perl, bourne shell, java, etc.)
• Proficiency with common Unix System administration tools.
• Proven troubleshooting skills and ability to understand complex relationships between components of multi-tiered, distributed network applications, encompassing all layers of the OSI model.
• Experience supporting high-availability, fault-tolerant systems in a dynamic environment.
• Broad knowledge of common applications and technologies in Internet computing (web servers, proxies, load balancers, databases, appliances, client/server, etc).
• Knowledge of host-based and network security tools and techniques a plus.
• At least one year of experience working with managed network switches (Cisco, Netgear, etc) in an environment with multiple subnets, including strong understanding of networking basics.
• Exhibits leadership qualities and strong procedural and architectural documentation skills.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to autonomously manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.  Learns quickly.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics (i.e. - process scheduling, disk and filesystem I/O, kernel internals, TCP/IP communications, machine architectures) and business issues/concerns with peers, management and vendors.
• Siebel CRM installation and ongoing infrastructure scaling + support a plus.
• Monitoring software (Nagios, Cacti, Tivoli) and datacenter experience a plus.
• Collaborative team-player with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Development experience using Java or Python a plus.  Development experience in one of Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ or PHP is required.

 

Basic Interpersonal Qualifications:

 

The qualifications must be objective, non-comparative, relevant to performance of the particular position, and enable the accomplishment of business-related goals.

• Technically Competent

• Communicates Effectively

• Focuses on Customer Needs

• Innovative and Learns Quickly

• Makes Effective Decisions

• Manages Execution & Delivery

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Regards,

Pankaj Trivedi

West Coast Consulting LLC

Work – 949 743 0065 Ext - 206 

YIM: Pankaj.fcsltd

GTalk: Pankaj.staffing

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