Linux/Unix Administrator- Chennai at IT Software Company in Chennai · Chennai · 3 - 5 years · ₹4L - ₹10L / yr · Posted 19 Dec 2022
Linux/Unix Administrator- Chennai
at IT Software Company in Chennai
Roles & Responsibilities
Selected engineer's day-to-day responsibilities include:
• Maintaining UNIX user accounts and access managements,
• Good understanding of LDAP vs local IAM management.
• Setting up repositories and maintaining.
• Should be very comfortable with troubleshooting Linux-based systems on issues and failures with good grasp of the Linux command line
• Specialist knowledge in Unix Technologies – RedHat , SUSE Linux & SOLARIS.
• Good hands-on experience in parallel filesystems.
• Good understanding on basic networking technology e.g. TCPIP, ip multipathing, ip aggregation, DNS, DHCP etc.
• Comfortable exploring and testing new Open Source software systems should the need arise to solve particular problems
• Setting up and maintaining SUSE and Red hat Clusters with DRBD, Stonith and Coro sync
• Good knowledge in virtualisation/hypervisor technologies on various operating platforms e.g. VMWare, HPE Service Guard cluster
• Good understanding of the various enterprise technologies e.g. SAN, enterprise backup, enterprise monitoring etc
. • Good knowledge in handling NFS file systems and NFS servers
• Troubleshooting performance issues
• Shell, Power shell and python scripting
• Creating custom image based on the security requirements • Planning and executing security patches periodically
Education, Experience & other requirements
Ø Degree in Computer science, Information technology or any related discipline
Ø Minimum 4 - 5 years of experience into Unix server’s setup, administration, upgrading and support.
Ø Good verbal and written communication and able to manage key stakeholders i.e. project team, security, compliance and IT operations
Ø Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

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Big Picture (The Opportunity) :
Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !
What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :
- Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
- Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
- An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.
What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :
- Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
- Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
- Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
- Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
- Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
- Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.
Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :
- Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
- He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
- You should possess excellent communication skills .
- Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.







