Thursday 1 November 2012

Linux System Specialist - Agility Logistics - Kuwait

To provide leadership for the architecture, implementation and ongoing development of technologies and services that enable high availability, scalability, high performance, and performance management of sophisticated Business applications and shared infrastructure services.

Job Requirements :

Strategic
    Investigate, recommend alternatives and implement the agreed solution for improving the availability, scalability, performance and management of data network, primary business systems, personal computing and voice communications infrastructure.

Functional
    Design, implement, and engineer system security standards, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
    Responsible for System Services Administration (Printing, Network, DNS, FTP, Internet Connection).
    Recommend, test and deploy solutions for high availability configurations (clustering, load balancing)
    Troubleshoot all system errors and failures.
    Diagnose and resolve complex configuration and troubleshooting issues within a multi-vendor infrastructure.
    Allocate systems storage and develop plans, propose and implement system enhancement (software and hardware)
    Proactively monitor, test, collect and analyze system performance statistical data to improve quality of the Linux environment.
    Manage Programming & Productivity (C++ tool, Shell Scripting, User Perl, awk).
    Manage Software & System Resources (RPM, Package, Monitoring Tool, GNOME, KDE, User Quotas).
    Manage the File System, X Window System, Kernel and Module Management.
    Support QA teams for all requirements and controlled release of applications.
    Support, configure, monitor, and optimize system performance to satisfy increasing network traffic demands, growing application complexity, and high-availability requirements of identified critical internet, electronic and voice products and services.
    Provide proactive leadership for the ongoing planning, configuration, contingency/backup mechanisms, and application hosting to support new and existing products and services that require high-availability and high performance electronic services.
    Control and monitor user access to Linux servers and maintain Linux security.
    Implement and act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies
    Protect assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference
    Report security events or potential events or other security risks to the organization

EDUCATION
    Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent.
    Minimum 3 years of experience in Linux System administration and engineering experience
    RHCE with 3-4 years of Redhat and Unbreakable Linux implementation experience (Redhat, Unbreakable Linux installation, configuration and maintenance experience)

SPECIFIC SKILLS
    High availability technologies.
    Linux redhat certification
    Working knowledge of Storage (NetApp/ NAS/SAN CIFS/NFS).
    Multiple OS or technical skill sets.
    Knowledge of multiple hardware platforms (IBM BladeCenter, HP)
    Internet security, TCP/IP fundamentals , HTTP , HTTPS , FTP
    Working Knowledge of Server and infrastructure operations
    Implementation of multi-tier applications.
    Working knowledge of windows infrastructure (Windows 2003 and Windows 2008).
    Working knowledge of Linux / Windows inter-operability.
    Knowledge of DNS fundamentals, Active Directory and BIND Network fundamentals.
    Knowledge of database services (MS SQL and Oracle) and Web Servers.
    Experience with running Redhat & Unbreakable Linux on SAN environment.
    Experience with running Redhat & Unbreakable Linux on blade technology.
    Working knowledge of Microsoft System Center Solutions (SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM).
    Strong troubleshooting skills.
    Experience dealing with hardware and service vendors.
    Must have basic understanding of network equipment like switches and routers.
    Experience with Virtualization
    Knowledge of Fiber Channel and iSCSI Protocol

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