Sunday, December 23, 2007

UNIX Systems Engineer (0726) in Buffalo, NY

Sunday, December 23, 2007

BASIC FUNCTION:
As part of M&T's Technology Infrastructure, the UNIX Systems Engineer would be Responsible for the planning, design, implementation and administration of Sun Solaris and Linux-based computer server installations within a client/server system environment.  This may include installation and maintenance of the operating system.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide day-to-day system administration support including usage monitoring, security administration, operating system and software installations, initial system setups, coordination & administration of system backups.
Prepare and review system activity, progress, security, and performance reports to ensure that systems are meeting availability and performance objectives. 
Provides ongoing trend data for determining current needs and future resource requirements
Provide a recommendation to management on system upgrades, vendor products and system enhancements.
Participate in and/or lead technology projects to successful completion.
Develop, test and implement a Disaster Recovery Plan for each supported UNIX System.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum 5 years administrative & engineering experience with Sun Solaris.
Minimum 3 years administrative & engineering experience with Linux (RedHat and/or Suse).
A thorough understanding of Sun Sparc hardware architecture as well as Sun Solaris based operating systems; understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communication; devices; device drivers; security; package administration; and performance and tuning.
The ability to write scripts in Perl, Korn, and/or C shells
Knowledge of general security issues (i.e., passwords, uids/gids, file permissions, file system integrity, use of security packages). 
Solid knowledge of networking and network protocols in a UNIX environment.
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS:
3 years experience with IBM Power hardware and AIX operating systems
5 years administrative & engineering experience with Linux (RedHat and/or Suse).
A thorough understanding of IBM Power hardware architecture as well as Sun Solaris based operating systems; understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communication; devices; device drivers; security; package administration; and performance and tuning.
Experience running Linux on IBM Power and/or Mainframe hardware
Experience with NCR Imaging Applications.
Experience with IBM AIX, NCR Unix, and/or HACMP helpful



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