Sun Solaris Administration

Job Title: Infrastructure-Server Administration | Sun Solaris Admin

Location: Bethpage NY 11714 (Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months

General responsibilities and expectations include but not limited to:
The Solaris Systems Administrator will provide enterprise-wide Unix System
infrastructure support for complex system and interconnected technologies that require day-to-
day support and administration in order to maintain optimum performance and utilization.
Provide support in the following areas: Sun Solaris Operational Support, Veritas
Cluster administration and server virtualization, Enterprise Sun LDAP for
UNIX systems and applications.

Job Summary and Responsibilities
Perform Unix Systems Administration for Sun Solaris Systems to include: Sun SunFire series,M3000/M4000/M5000/T5120/T5220/T5240/T5440/V240/V280/V490 etc.
Maintain Solaris infrastructure environment at Client data centers during business hours and off-hours; troubleshoot Solaris networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.
Install, configure, and maintain SUN Solaris server equipment, disk arrays, tape libraries, virtual tape libraries and terminal servers; Solaris routine operation functions.
Provide data protection, recovery and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery and business continuity methods in Solaris environment.
Perform routine backup and recovery for data protection and integrity for Solaris servers; monitor Solaris infrastructure which consists of complex sets of equipment and system software; provide proactive remediation.
Perform proactive monitoring for high availability, System data protection, backup and restore, UNIX central authentication, user account management, disk storage management, hardware and OS maintenance, and application maintenance.
Install, configure and maintain highly optimized Virtualized UNIX environment using Zone/Container, LDOM and VMware virtualization technologies; UNIX High Availability environment consisting of different HA techniques i.e. clustering, load balancing, and cluster file systems; UNIX storage environment using Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager and ZFS.
The ability to keep up with updates in the UNIX environment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work within strict deadlines and with a wide spectrum of people; Project Leader experience.

Primary Skills
Five to Ten years experience providing Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration support for large scale complex unix environments.
Unix/Sun Solaris systems administration.
Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage foundation and other High Availability techniques in the UNIX environment; Veritas NetBackup.
Solaris Disk Suit or Solaris Volume Manager and ZFS.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in UNIX environment; EMC storage array
based SAN environment.
Knowledge of Sun Entry-Level, Midrange and High-End Enterprise servers i.e. E25K
and Sun disk arrays.
Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Solaris
networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, HTTP
Sun Virtualization technologies: Container and LDOM.
SUN LDAP or Oracle Directory Services/LDAP; Sun SMC and Quest monitoring tools.

Secondary Skills
Shell scripting and/or Perl scripting experience.
System level support for Oracle application and database Servers, Java application
servers, Websphere or other large-scale databases in a UNIX environment.
UNIX environment with Oracle, Java application server and Websphere or other large-scale databases.
Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years