Fosad Consulting Limited, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.
Job Description
- We are seeking a Unix / Linux Engineer who will be accountable for availability, performance, costs, and risks related to all Oracle Hardware, Oracle Virtualization, Unix / Linux OS, VMWare, High-end and Midrange storages, and backups.
- The Systems Engineer will provide enterprise-wide Unix / Linux / VM Ware system infrastructure support for complex system and interconnected technologies that require day-today support and administration to maintain optimum performance and utilization.
- Provide support in the following areas: Solaris / Linux Systems Operational Support and server virtualization, Enterprise Backup solutions
Availability of the services:
- Performance and quality of the services
- Capacity management of the services
- Change management of the Servers
- Incident and Problem management in Solaris/Linux/VMWare/Backup domains
- License management
Infrastructure management consists of the following domains:
- System Management: System Management unit is responsible for the management of Solaris / Linux / VM Ware environment.
- Storage & backup management: Management Mid-Range & High-End Storage and backup solutions like Networker / NetBackup. Ensures data is stored securely and available at all point in time for business recovery
Job Responsibilities
Availability Management:
- Ensure that availability of services exceed the defined service levels.
- Maintain Solaris / Linux / VM Ware infrastructure environment during business hours and off-hours.
- Design, Install, configure, and maintain highly optimized Virtualized Solaris/Linux/VMWare environment.
Performance Management and Quality of service:
- Define performance management parameters for related services.
- Ensure the services exceed the defined performance levels. Review performance on a regularly and
- Ensure proactive actions and communication to avoid disruption to services.
Change and Configuration Management:
- Ensure that changes to Solaris / Linux / VM Ware servers are managed and operate within the agreed service levels.
- Ensure that Changes to applications are performed within the Architecture guidelines.
Incident and Problem Management:
- Provide first level support for incidents and problems related front end solutions. Ensure that incidents and problems do not impact the agreed service levels.
- Manage services from relevant vendors.
License Management:
- Manage all licenses related to Server Infra within the scope of the team. Ensure that the services are operated within the defined measures and controls.
- Ensure licenses are renewed on a regular basis.
Disaster Recovery:
- Responsible for disaster recovery of oursystems & data centres. Work closely with other teams to achieve overall disaster recovery and continuity to suit organizational needs.
- Provide data protection, recovery, and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery.
- And business continuity methods in Solaris / Linux / VM Ware environment.
Qualification
- Educated to Degree level from a recognized University in Computer Science or relevant subject in Technology. Preferably holds an Engineering Degree.
Professional Requirements:
- At least 5+ years of experience in a Technology / IT function in a recognized international organization
- In-depth knowledge of SPARC Hardware and Solaris OS & Oracle Virilizations (LDOMS / Zones)
- In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux OS
- In-depth knowledge of VMWare vSphere, vRCLI & vROPS, ARIA
- Excellent Knowledge in High-end and Mid-range storages (PowerMax / PowerStore / DataDomain / ECS) including design and replication technologies.
- In-depth Knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions (Networker / NetBackup).
- In-depth Knowledge in Veritas Cluster including fault tolerant configuration and maintenance.
- Design and deploy systems with HA.
- Should have very strong working knowledge on OS & Infrastructure Application patching, maintaining Oracle Solaris (11) Patching Repository, RedHat Satellite servers & Qualys patching tool.
- Performance Tuning skills in OS (Unix / Linux) / Storage & Backup.
- Excellent Knowledge in Ansible automation tools and scripting
- Experience in Public Cloud (OCI / Azure / AWS)
- Proven expertise in computer science, software engineering and information systems preferably for financial services industry
- International certification on RedHat Linux, Solaris, VMWare, Storage, Backup products will be added advantage.
Personal Skills:
- Excellent analytical and problem-management skills.
- Dedicated approach to service management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.