OT: Job Posting for Unix Engineer

[Paul Mora]

Hello!

A friend of mine is looking for a candidate for the following job
description, and I thought I'd post it here, to see if any of you may
be interested. If you are, please contact Andrew Yearwood (contact
info is at the bottom of the description).

pm

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Paul Mora
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Unix Engineer (Contractor) – Infrastructure, reporting to Manager,
Unix Services, will be part of Unix Infrastructure team that is
currently supporting over 50 fully managed physical and virtual
servers, storage, and backup devices running variety of infrastructure
services.

This position is a 6-month contract opportunity.

Responsibilities:

    * Provide daily support of infrastructure systems, including
participation in on-call pager rotation. Follow internal escalation
procedures when necessary. Effectively engage 3rd party vendors to
achieve quickest issue resolution under Fusepoint's SLA.
    * Design, implement, and document solutions to improve
performance, stability and availability of Unix infrastructure,
including SAN/NAS storage, backup, automation, email, monitoring,
application and database systems.
    * Proactively identify performance, stability, and capacity issues
in current Unix Infrastructure environments and prepare project plans
and proposals for upgrades and improvements.
    * Ensure that proposed designs meet corporate requirements and
best industry practices such as ITIL and can be implemented within the
allocated budget and time constraints.



Required Skills:

    * 8-10 years of progressive experience in the industry with at
least 5 supporting Unix environments specifically Linux (Redhat) and
Solaris.
    * Exposure to best industry practices in managing large number of
Unix servers in high-availability datacenter environment.
    * Knowledge and experience supporting, deploying and designing
solutions based on open-source applications.
    * Multitasking – be able to handle multiple projects
simultaneously and provide ongoing support for designed/implemented
solutions.
    * Strong communication and team-player skills.



Extensive hands-on experience with following technologies is critical
in order for candidate to succeed in this position.

    * Solid grasp of various shared storage solutions (FC/iSCSI SAN
and NFS/CIFS NAS). Specific experience with Netapp Filers (FAS 3020
and higher models) in clustered configurations is required.
    * Strong hands-on experience on building Fiber Channel SAN
(fabric, zoning, masking, ISL) and on Brocade and Qlogic FC switches
is required.
    * Practical experience supporting VMWare VI 3.x infrastructure,
such as ESX, virtual centre, p2v,VMotion is required.
    * Experience supporting Veritas Netbackup up to version 6.5.x on
client, master and media server side is necessary. Exposure to SAN
direct backup to tape, NDMP and DeDup is an asset.
    * Solid grasp on components of end-to-end monitoring
infrastructure based on syslog, SNMP MIB/Traps, and vendor monitoring
tools. Experience with Nagios is required. Exposure to Netcool and/or
other monitoring frameworks is an asset.
    * In-depth knowledge of traditional Unix infrastructure services,
such as DNS/LDAP, SMTP/POP3 email, NTP is necessary.
    * Experience supporting provisioning systems, specifically
kickstart and jumpstart.
    * Ability to build custom packages using RPM and Solaris packaging
formats. Experience maintaining patching infrastructure based on
revision control, yum, mrepo is an required.
    * Advanced level of scripting skills (Perl, shell, python, PHP) is required.
    * Strong grasp of Unix security: OS and application hardening,
main types of attacks and responses to system compromises, proactive
penetration testing. Proficiency with host based intrusion detection
and prevention tools, such as Tripwire, iptables and SELinux is an
asset.
    * Experience with enterprise hardware from major vendors (Sun, HP,
Dell, IBM)



Nice-to-have:

    * Experience with Opsware Automation System or another datacenter
automation framework is highly desirable.
    * Experience with Netflow, ColdFusion, web-analytics (Urchin) is an asset.
    * Experience with blade technology is an asset.
    * Networking knowledge on a level of CCNA with understanding of
how different network devices (such as routers, switches, firewalls,
load-balancing) can be used to create end-to-end infrastructure.
    * Certifications in Linux/Unix/Storage/Virtualization, such as
RHCT, RHCA, SCNA, SCSA, VCP are an asset.


Contact Information:

Andrew A. Yearwood
Executive Recruiter/Headhunter
CQ Search Group Ltd.
2120 Matheson Blvd. E
Second floor Suite 200
(905) 712 8000 ext 242
(905) 712 8100 facsimile
(416) 569 4131 mobile
andrew-9mE23gmFGbBWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
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