UNIX/LINUX Senior System Administrator & Product Trainer | Macropus Global Ltd

Macropus Global Ltd (www.macropusglobal.com ) was founded in January 2009 with a vision of providing best services in the field of Information Technology Consulting Business Services.

In early 2016 Macropus Global has expanded to IT educational (www.macropuseducation.com ) services for IT Consulting, Training for Corporates & Individuals across the globe and placing Canadian individuals to the main stream Canadian workforce.

Macropus Global has further expanded its wings into Canada Immigration & Visa Services.

We have an immediate need / opening of an expert in UNIX / LINUX System Administration & Product Trainer with Good Storage and Backup Experience for a fulltime in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia .

Experience in administration in multiple domains will be an added advantage. Join our team in a position that lets you grow with us!

Job Summary :

• Provides L3 (advanced) troubleshooting support; with accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues, and user support needs requiring collaboration.
• Train individuals and corporate customers on UNIX / LINUX , basic set up and administration.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance, support & handling EMC Ability to proactively maintain Storage & Backup solutions.
• Partners with Dev teams, DBAs and QA in a DevOps model of agile development process.
• Excellent capabilities around capacity planning and analysis.
• Monitor and analyze metrics in order to implement optimization strategies
• Ability to articulate end-to-end technical requirements across Application delivery functions.
• Expert knowledge of technology and Application deployment principles and process.
• Research and implement productivity enhancing tools for Systems Administration activities.
• Evaluate new technology and techniques in order to improve systems infrastructure.
• Drives and leads technical design services, requirements analysis, functional / technical design leadership, and documentation / review with the business & IT.
• Drives continuous improvement - design, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies
• Must be able to conduct system analysis and translate user requirement into business solutions.

Only candidates with above qualifications should apply!

Key Skills Required :

• Expert level knowledge of RHCE Certification.
• Expert level knowledge of AWS and related Amazon services.
• Expertise in OS security fundamentals for external facing Linux servers.
• Good Hands On experience in EMC Storage and NetBackup.
• Expertise in server automation technology (Chef / Puppet preferably)
• Excellent TCP / IP, DNS, DHCP, NFS and networking knowledge and experience.
• Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in highly complex systems and drive performance optimizations.
• Expertise with Apache, Tomcat, and Java environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise storage technologies (FC, NFS, ISCSI, CIFS).
• Understanding of Oracle technology stacks, versions 11g and 12c and dNFS, Delphix, Informatica
• Fusion Middleware, GRID / RAC / database deployment and administration
• Oracle performance monitoring & troubleshooting using OEM and other toolsets
• Virtualized Oracle provisioning on Amazon AWS / Oracle Cloud
• Training / Teaching experience to individuals and corporate customers on UNIX / LINUX , basic setup and administration.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and / or Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience
• At least 5 years Systems Engineer experience with mission critical systems in a medium to large environment.
• At least 5 years Unix Systems Administration experience in an enterprise environment; preferably in RHEL and Solaris.
• At least 4 years Storage and Backup Administration experience in an enterprise environment
• As a plus - Experience managing Amazon AWS services
• Experience working with internal and external organizations solving complex problems and handling large scale projects.
• Extensive scripting experience in BASH or equivalent shell and or Perl, Python, Ruby.
• Proven ability to drive systems optimizations on large scale infrastructure.

Assets :

• Implementation and administration experience especially in Telecommunication or Manufacturing Domain.
• Any Expert level Platform certifications.

We will check references with previous employers. If you are a qualified candidate, please email cover letter, pay requirements, work history, resume, and references.

We will contact the most qualified candidates within the next month. Email responses only.

We are an "Equal Opportunity Employer" this job description / advertisement does not constitute an offer or guarantee of employment