Description: Linux Sr. Consultant Responsibilities :- Adhering to SLAs ITIL Processes awareness and adhering to Perform root cause analysis Design and Plan Solutions Troubleshooting technical issues Provide Solution for escalated calls Defining processes and ensuring that the processes are adhered to Oversees and is responsible for successful completion of Installation, configuration and migration Understanding of Multi-geo support environment Responsible for building / maintaining a test environment Responsible for strategizing a backup plan and test plan for failure scenario Improves and maintains customer and employee satisfaction Planning Backup/Restoration Strategy for 24x7 operation support Suggesting patches/upgrades to maintain security level Testing / Auditing/processes as required from time to time Identify Skill gaps and plan for training / knowledge updating Perform H/W & performance tuning and maintenance Day-to-Day reporting analysis tasks Vendor co-ordination & follow up.
Technical Requirements Planning and designing Linux server provisioning Installing, configuring and maintaining Linux Servers ( RHEL, SLES ) Planning and designing High availability soltion around Linux or Veritas Cluster Installation and configuration of HA environment using Linux or Veritas Cluster. Configuration and administration of Linux and Veritas logical volume manager. Installing and Maintaining Linux Kickstart / AI environment Patch and Package administration: Satellite Server, Yum Writing shell scripts to acomplish day to day system administration task Configuring and supporting HP C7000 Chassis, HP Blades/proliant/Rack Mount, IBM, Dell x86 Servers Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue Administer and configure various FS like Ext3/4, VxFS, XFS, Pseudo FS Installation, configuration and management of Network bonding and I/O Multipathing Capacity planning and fine tune system for optimal performance Understanding of SAN and NAS storage. Should possess knowledge of Storage and Network towers. Administration of NIS or LDAP environment Configuring Unix Security baseline Performance Management & fine tuning Experience in System Fault Tolerance Design, Business continuity and Disaster recovery planning Vendor(OEM) Coordination to Troubleshoot and fix HW issues, co-ordination,install H/W, Firmware Planning Work on Problem management case (Collecting re-occurring incidents) Advance patch Management for large count UNIX/Linux Servers in Enterpirse Data Center using Satellite/opsware/BladeLogic Advance Cluster set up using IO fencing, More than 3 nodes, Enterprise Storage Access, Multiple Fail Over scenario, geo Cluster, Across Chasis, custom Application service Group etc UNIX Virtual servers (LPAR,LDOM,HP-VM,KVM) Architecture Design inclusing H/W, Resource Assignation etc Planning and Testing Disaster recovery solution. Server Migration planning for P2P, P2V,V2V problem Analysis and Resolution for mass issue and latest technology upgrade in environment based on business goals Excellent Hands on knowledge of Satellite and Ansible tools is a must. Architecture design for HLD, LLD, BOM finalization for Enterpise Data center Server hosting Advance Job Automation on enterpise/critical servers with significant business impact Enterprise level Server Storage Configuration of DAS, SAN & NAS, ISCSI with reduntant fault tolerance set up, high performance impact
Soft Skills - Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written) - Good documentation skills - Good working knowledge of MS OFFICE (Including MS Project and Visio) - Should have a great customer handling skills - Able to handle unforeseen situations - High level of acceptance - Can drive company value and its methodology Other Skills / Experience - Worked on Production systems - Datacenter understanding - Experience with Server Migration, Installation, Upgrades and Patching -Experience on following will be added advantage - Samba - DNS - NIS+ - Sendmail - LDAP - Monitoring Tools (like BMC Patrol, HP openview, IBM Tivoli)
Years of Experience Total : 9+ Years of experience Relevant: Minimum 8 Years in Linux Administration / Support and 4 years as an L3 resource
Desired Certifications - EX200 Red Hat Certified System Administrator - RHCSA - EX300 Red Hat Certified Engineer - RHCE - EX318 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization - RHCVA Education requirements - Bachelors / Masters / Equivalent
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