OSS Infrastructure Specialist

Job Title: OSS Infrastructure Specialist

Type: Contract; 6 months. This role is also available on a Permanent, Full time basis.

Location: Oakville, ON
Start Date: Immediate

Overview:

Our client is seeking a highly skilled, motivated and dynamic individual to join their Infrastructure team. The OSS Infrastructure Specialist supports & administers applications, software tools, & operating systems infrastructure and provides operational support the organization platform.

Platform:

-Much of the existing development environment is Microsoft-oriented (.NET 3.5/4.0, C#, MSMQ, SQL Server, WCF), but includes a rapidly-increasing mix of other technologies (Linux, Java EE, Glassfish, Android) as the organizations network is extended into other medical devices and platform offerings. The role will work with a product in a fast track to market, including mechanical handling, sensors, machine vision, VOIP, web portals, user interactions, inventory systems, and database reporting. Software must be designed and implemented to operate in a highly distributed, dependable, and secure networked environment.

Role:

-Deployment of operating systems, applications & tools for operational support of the Platform, including setup of hypervisor environments, deployment of Linux, setup of middleware applications, databases and other systems software.

-Selection, deployment, configuration & administration of software for configuration management, address management, name management, event, incident & problem management in support of ITIL processes.

-Selection, deployment, configuration & administration of systems software for authentication, naming, addressing, configuration, boot image management, etc.

-Deployment, configuration & administration of databases used by operational support tools.

-Development of scripts and tools required for administration automation.

-Selection, deployment, configuration & administration of software systems for automation of high scale environments.

-2nd tier OSS infrastructure technical support

-Incident, root cause analysis, & repair of OSS infrastructure problems

Skills:

-University Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited educational institution is preferred (or equivalent, direct and related working experience will be considered)

-Minimum 5 years of relevant and recent hands on work experience

-Strong English language communications skills, both written and verbal

-5 or more year’s administration experience with open source web based application infrastructure, including Java application engines (Glassfish, Apache, and Tomcat).

-5 or more years experience with open source operational support software (e.g. Freeradius, DCHP, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos, NTP, etc)

-5 or more years experience with large scale virtualization environments using Xen & Hyper-V, Linux (Ubuntu Server), system administration automation (e.g. cfengine) and system administration scripting (Perl and/or python)

-5 or more years experience with open source database infrastructure (MySQL, PostgreSQL), setup, configuration & tuning

-Experience with software usable in support ITIL processes such as configuration management (e.g. cfengine), incident & problem management (e.g. OTRS, OpenNMS), and other ITIL processes.

-Experience with large scale high availability highly virtualized computing environments

-Experience with Voice over IP & Video over IP software infrastructure (freeswitch, asterix) desirable

-Knowledge of enterprise service bus technology (OpenESB, ServiceMix, MuleESB)

-Excellent technical skills, ability to debug, think logically and work problems under pressure

-Good documentation skills, ability to write technical English

-Ability to work productively and complete assigned work with minimal supervision.

-Experience with ITIL v3 environments & processes