Unix or Linux Admin

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Job Description

Role: Unix or Linux Admin
Location: Montreal, Canada
Duration: 6+ Months


 BGV will be done for the selected candidates.


The UnixOperations team is responsible for implementing and
managing the Linux infrastructure for company .. The
group is involved in evaluation, certification,
integration, and maintenance of various products,
including hardware, Operating Systems, such as Red
Hat Linux and Solaris, system services (DNS, DHCP,
NTP, syslog, etc.), file systems (NFS, AFS, Hadoop
and various cluster file systems), High
Availability, Virtualization technologies and a
variety of in-house developed tools. We interact
with a high number of customers from numerous
business units to generate improvements that ensure
the smooth operation of the plant without being hard
to manage. We also liaise with engineering groups to
set direction for the many disciplines that are part
of our day-to-day service portfolio (storage, core
infrastructure services and special projects) and
create different solutions for the low-level
components that makes our infrastructure tick. We
interact with many customers from numerous business
units as a mechanism to generate improvements to be
able to 'run the bank' more efficiently and
effectively. The role is critical to our day to day
incident management function with primary
responsibilities for:?Diagnosis and resolution of
immediate production impacting issues in the compute
and storage plant?Working with other infrastructure
teams including networking, database administration
and hosted solution teams for outage resolution, as
well as customers aligned with the business users of
our plant to determine scope, impact, and
appropriate resolution path?Carry out proactive
health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational
stability and compliance for risk & control
programs to ensure the production environment is not
put at risk?Collaborate with engineering teams to
test and certify new hardware & software
products?Occasional weekend project work
responsibilities to on-board new UNIX assets for
growth or large programs such as new datacenter
build outsWe are looking for you if you have a good
mix of the following skills:?Unix/Linux system
administration (Red Hat / Solaris)?Troubleshooting
(proficiency)?Network, TCP/IP stack, particularly
HTTP and DNS?Veritas Clustering?Storage / Netbackup
(AFS, SAN, NAS)?Scripting (Korn Shell / Perl /
Python)?Configuration Management (Red Hat Satellite,
Quattor, Puppet, Chef)

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