UNIX Engineer, Infrastructure - Mississauga
Unix Engineer – 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.
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 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 6 supporting Unix (specifically Solaris) and Linux environments.
• 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.
• Experience supporting Veritas Netbackup up to version 6.5 on client, master and media server side.
• Solid grasp of various shared storage solutions (NAS, SAN). Specific experience with Netapp Filers (FAS 3020 and higher models) in clustered configurations is required.
• Strong practical understanding of Fiber Channel concepts (zoning, masking, ISL) and experience building Fiber Channel fabric of various topologies based on Brocade and Qlogic FC switches is required.
• Practical experience supporting VMWare VI 3 infrastructure.
• Solid grasp on components of end-to-end monitoring infrastructure based on syslog, SNMP, 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, email, LAMP, NTP is necessary.
• Experience supporting provisioning systems, specifically kickstart and jumpstart.
• Advanced level of scripting using commonly used scripting languages (perl, shell, python, php).
• 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.
• Ability to build custom packages using RPM and Solaris packaging formats. Experience maintaining patching infrastructure based on revision control, yum, mrepo 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, such as RHCT, RHCA, SCNA, SCSA are an asset.
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