Unix or Linux Admin at Infoways in Montreal, Quebec, CA

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Role: Unix or Linux Admin Location: Montreal, Canada Duration: 6+ Months

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The UnixOperations team is responsible for implementing and managing the Linux infrastructure for company .. The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of various products, including hardware, Operating Systems, such as Red Hat Linux and Solaris, system services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, syslog, etc.), file systems (NFS, AFS, Hadoop and various cluster file systems), High Availability, Virtualization technologies and a variety of in-house developed tools. We interact with a high number of customers from numerous business units to generate improvements that ensure the smooth operation of the plant without being hard to manage. We also liaise with engineering groups to set direction for the many disciplines that are part of our day-to-day service portfolio (storage, core infrastructure services and special projects) and create different solutions for the low-level components that makes our infrastructure tick. We interact with many customers from numerous business units as a mechanism to generate improvements to be able to 'run the bank' more efficiently and effectively. The role is critical to our day to day incident management function with primary responsibilities for:?Diagnosis and resolution of immediate production impacting issues in the compute and storage plant?Working with other infrastructure teams including networking, database administration and hosted solution teams for outage resolution, as well as customers aligned with the business users of our plant to determine scope, impact, and appropriate resolution path?Carry out proactive health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational stability and compliance for risk & control programs to ensure the production environment is not put at risk?Collaborate with engineering teams to test and certify new hardware & software products?Occasional weekend project work responsibilities to on-board new UNIX assets for growth or large programs such as new datacenter build outsWe are looking for you if you have a good mix of the following skills:?Unix/Linux system administration (Red Hat / Solaris)?Troubleshooting (proficiency)?Network, TCP/IP stack, particularly HTTP and DNS?Veritas Clustering?Storage / Netbackup (AFS, SAN, NAS)?Scripting (Korn Shell / Perl / Python)?Configuration Management (Red Hat Satellite, Quattor, Puppet, Chef)

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