bjarvis | Unix Sysadmin Job Opportunity in Greater Washington DC area

My Unix Support team has an opening in Urbana, MD, the same data center in which I work. You won't have to answer to me, but you will have to put up with me. :-)

Description:

UNIX Support: Provide UNIX system and servers support to business users. Includes trouble-shooting problems or projects related activities. Handle escalated issues, and provide technical resolutions to on-site staff members. Candidate will provide onsite support during weekends Friday through Monday . Occasional off-hours pager support is required
Projects: Work with guidance on several concurrent projects in a highly dynamic environment . Assume the technical responsibility on multiple projects simultaneously; interface with customers in order to resolve technical system, application, and end user issues.
Integration: Support the integration and implementation of UNIX systems and applications, and provide operational support for same.
Installation: Install and configure Sun Solaris Servers and related systems; assist business users and Unix Engineers with the setup and installation of their applications and tests within the UNIX environment.
Engineering: Work with other technical teams, gather requirements; determine, document, and propose viable solutions against these requirements. With guidance from Senior System Administrators, plan and implement these solutions in cooperation other system administrators and technical teams.
Problem Resolution: Perform root cause analysis and determine cause of problems in order to develop specific solution to an issue

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree and/or experience
Minimum of five years of system administration experience in a UNIX production business environment with substantial knowledge of the UNIX operating system, mainly Solaris experience on a variety of Sun Hardware. Linux and IBM AIX a plus.
The system administrator will work on Sun hardware (e.g., E250, E420R, E5500, E6500, Vl120, V280, V480, V4800, V4900, V6800 and V6900 models). Hardware knowledge on the different types of components of servers is required, including assembly, replacing hardware, installing new hardware, defining configurations for upgrades. Will configure and support multiple domains on SunFire midrange servers, and must be familiar with Sun Microsystems methods of dynamically reconfiguring boards and components on these servers.
Will perform tasks related to managing SUN Disk Storage.(eg.Photons etc) This includes using Veritas Volume Manager command line commands to create, grow, and/or mirror new volumes and file systems. Must be able to perform this work in accordance with our standards and demonstrate the knowledge and experience with Veritas and RAID devices to apply these standards. Experience with SAN technology including Hitachi, EMC and Brocade switches preferred.
Will build, maintain and troubleshoot high availability clusters using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS).
Run UNIX commands from UNIX shells, be able to operate in csh or ksh environment, review or write shell scripts and understand general shell scripting practices. Must have knowledge of programming or writing shell scripts in languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, or Perl.
Set up network interfaces on servers, trouble shoot, and resolve network issues related to the servers. Must understand basic networking items such as Ethernet, ARP, and TCP/IP.
Working Knowledge of NIS / NIS + /LDAP , DNS.

My employer is a superlatively large financial services company dealing exclusively in mortgages and mortgage backed securities. The starting salary would likely be in the range of $80k. Our company benefits are pretty darn good (great health care, a comprehensive education benefit, matching funds for charitable donations, matching funds for 401(k) contributions, etc.).

If you're interested, please let me know... There's a referral bonus in it for me if someone is hired. :-)