Unix Systems Specialist
Position Description
The Unix Engineering team is a globally distributed team that develops and supports a customized UNIX infrastructure and tools to support the globally distributed Unix server environment. The team identifies and develops new solutions to ensure the plant runs smoothly without being hard to manage. We are focused on designing UNIX servers that build easily, repeatably, and are easily supportable and diagnosable. UNIX Engineering is constantly evaluating new ways of doing things and creating different solutions for the low-level components that makes our infrastructure tick.
It is the way of the world that things will always break and so UNIX Engineering is also a taskforce used as a third-line support team to diagnose problems that can span many layers of the IT infrastructure, or problems that cross many disciplines.
Skills Required
JOB FUNCTIONS
• Performs low level troubleshooting on Linux/Solaris server issues (system/process hangs, hardware issues)
• Analyzes crash dumps to determine root causes
• Provides detailed information and works with vendors to diagnose issues and identify solutions
• Collaborates with operations teams, integration teams and other engineers in the global Engineering team on ad hoc projects and solutions
• Provides regular status updates on progress on issues, and reviews trends and makes suggestions for improvements
• Occasionally creates scripts and tools to support debugging of the environment
QUALIFICATIONS
• Extensive experience troubleshooting low level Linux issues (i.e. system/process hangs, hardware issues, etc), preferably in the RedHat Linux environment (5+ years)
• Experience analyzing crash dumps to identify causes and solutions (5+ years)
• Experience integrating servers in a large scale enterprise infrastructure, and a distributed NFS/AFS environment (3+ years)
Skills Desired
• Application/script development using Perl and shell scripting
• Familiarity with the Solaris kernel is a plus
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