Information Systems Unix Engineering Unix System Engineer 3

Overview

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The Systems Administration team designs, installs, configures, and maintains all UNIX and Windows server systems. All systems are configured and maintained to handle the capacity requirements as well as future growth. High availability and disaster recovery solutions are implemented to provide a system back-up to prevent issues in the event of any level of system failure.

The Unix Systems Administrator Level 3 collaborates with various B&H departments and external resources to actively develop both short and long term projects pertaining to the overall architecture, design, and planning of server systems. Additionally, the Level 3 assists in the installation, configuration, and overall maintenance of each system. S / he ensures that all server systems are constructed according to current capacity requirements, set up with high availability, backed-up for disaster recovery, and equipped to handle additional future server loads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and administer all aspects of backups, restores, and Disaster recovery.
• Design, plan, and create architecture for large scale server implementations for strategic business purposes
• Research all viable solutions and collaborate with IS Facilities team, consultants, and external vendors for cost effective options on integration of additional server systems as well as upgrades to current systems
• Monitor server capacity requirements and preemptively implement solutions to curtail system issues or crashes
• Configure, install, and accurately document hardware within a single / cluster, disaster recovery, and high availability server environments
• Perform an RCA and appropriately document all server system issues
• Diagnose and repair software failures, stemming from server issues
• Maintain and monitor server environments and infrastructure for high availability and disaster recovery requirements
• Collaborate with Networking / Security teams to ensure proper server configuration
• Implement all system server upgrades, updates, and patches according to vendor and PCI requirements
• Establish schedules for system maintenance and diagnostic checks
• Maintain system security level including appropriate accesses, user accounts, and system permissions
• Utilizes project management software and time tracking systems in conjunction with project status feedback reports
• Provide support to lower level administrators for training or support purposes
• Participates in on-call rotation and available 24hr (7d / wk, 365d / yr) for any emergency and support based issues
• Create and maintain dashboards

Additional Responsibilities

Qualifications

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Equal Opportunity

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