Position Description
• Must have an Engineering degree in any discipline from a reputed institution
• Must have 10-12 yrs of experience in IT industry with at least 3 yrs of Service Delivery in complex; demanding 24x7 environments
• Must be willing to work in UK/ US business day time zones and flexible to changes in work schedules
• Experience in deploying; maintaining and supporting Linux Server infrastructures and storage systems in an enterprise environment
• Responsible for resolving all technical incidents escalated by the L-2 team
• Possess ITIL certification
• Excellent written; oral communication skills; credibility; interpersonal skills
• Must have worked in similar capacity at an MNC in Outsourcing/ technology and consulting services firm
• Good knowledge of business continuity planning and disaster recovery practices
• Must have financial acumen; budgeting; reducing cost of operations; knowledge of Capex; Opex; resource costing
• Ability to plan and execute migration and upgradation projects
• Vendor management experience
• Ability to work effectively in diverse; virtual and multi-cultural environments
• Able to work in an unstructured environment and bring structure to a problem; synthesize issues.
• Experienced in managing conflicts.
• Strong leadership skills
• Flexible to work on 24/7 rotational shifts
• On call schedule and week end change schedule participation
• Install and set up Linux systems and servers, often for organization-wide deployment.
• Configure specific applications in concordance with run book requirements.
• Perform routine system maintenance and resolve server-side issues as they arise.
• Perform OS and application upgrades and server migrations to new environment
• Maintain security and OS patch management for linux based systems
• Install and maintain agents on servers for centralized monitoring and management
• Experience with Ansible or similar tools is desired
• Manage and maintain currently supported and subsequent Linux based Operating Systems (OS) on physical and virtual operating environments,
• Providing technical oversight and consultation services.
• Utilize Linux scripting (Bourne, PERL, BASH, PowerShell, etc.) to optimize and automate system administrator tasks.
• Perform hardware and software technology refreshes, ensuring milestone compliance while coordinating with MPs to minimize disruptions.
• Perform back-up/recovery functions for Linux server environments.
• Perform all security/compliance functions for Linux server environments.
• Experience in powerlinux servers
• Knowledge on RHEL 5.6.7 , Centos 5.6.7 and Ubuntu
• Knowledge in CIFS and SMB services
• Knowledge in NIS and NFS ,Dns
· Primary Skill: Oracle Linux, cluster , satellite , patching
· Cloud Hosting Secondary Skill: Redhat Linux, KVM, RHEV, docker container/ openshift, Ansible/Puppet, shell/python EXPERIENCE ON REDHAT LINUX; REDHAT CLUSTER; SATELLITE ADMINISTRATION/PATCHING
· Experience of managing large infrastructure environments.
Skills:
· Server - Linux - 3 year(s)
· Server - Unix - 3 year(s)
· Linux - 3 year(s)
· Unix - 3 year(s)
