Position: Linux System Administrator
Company: Luxoft
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Responsibilities:
• Install and maintain up- to-date Operational System software, patch levels, firmware, drivers, and related program products
• Configure and customize software in accordance with site requirements
• Suggest and promote System Changes in accordance with documented SOPs (Standard Operational Procedures)
• Provide continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and first level maintenance of the various application servers, systems and associated peripherals, including adequate follow up on Problem Resolution tracking using the Remedy tool
• Engage in system capacity planning and monitoring and generate health and usage reports of systems
• Participate in "On Call" weekly shifts supporting off hours and weekend activity
• Review and monitor service indicators to meet the agreed upon service levels
• Interact with software and hardware maintenance providers in enforcing adequate levels of support to installed hardware and software
• Provide support to other technical staff in performing account management, disk space management, backups, baseline security administration, testing of system features, and other systems administration activities
• Produce and maintain appropriate documentation and charts describing hardware setups, diagrams, operational procedures, and overall inventory
• Produce weekly reports of activities and operational status of systems under his/her control
• Monitor and review use of systems for Bank access control policy violations in line with Bank's guidelines
• Ensure that the defined decommissioning and disposal procedures are followed for all hardware systems and media
• Report and respond to critical security events and take corrective measures per defined security incident management processes
• Follow and comply with the Bank policies, processes, and procedures
• Participate in audits, as needed, producing necessary documentation, reports, and explanations, and implement corrective and preventive action plans approved by unit managers
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Role Specific Experience: 2+ years of experience
• System administration experience in Solaris, Readhat, and AIX operating system and hardware configurations
• Experience in managing mission critical OS (AIX, Solaris, Linux) infrastructure, oracle RAC clusters in Redhat in Linux with proven involvement in operations required for stringent uptime service levels
• Experience in configuring and maintaining Highly Available configurations of Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, Volume Managers and File Systems (Veritas FS), OS mirroring and OS replication
• Experience in environments supporting Databases (Oracle and Sybase), including intimacy with DB concepts and operations
• Experience in programming using any one of languages like, C, C++, Python etc.
• Experience in supporting SAN disks, Volume groups, and file systems

Certification Requirements:
• AIX, Linux, or Solaris certification (preferred)

Required Skills/Abilities:
• Knowledge and experience in shell scripting
• Good knowledge in the UNIX internals, data structures and networking implementation in Unix
• Knowledge in the computer algorithms, data structures and optimization concepts in coding
• Ability to modify existing scripts to meet the business requirements
• Excellent knowledge in network trouble shooting
• Knowledge of VMware virtualization technology
• Good understanding of WEB related technologies, including architectural concepts but also basic operational principles of applications servers, web servers, etc.
• Team player with strong technical and user support skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to present and explain technical information to diverse types of audience (management, users, vendor, and technical staff)