Unix Systems Administrator - Level 2

Job Order: J0813-0378 - Permanent Full Time
Title: Unix Systems Administrator - Level 2
Category: Information Technology
City: Tempe, Arizona, United States

Job Description: Unix Systems Administrator - Level 2

As a CGI member you would be responsible for providing professional and effective technical services to client organizations while performing system administration functions, including taking preemptive action as appropriate for supported UNIX/LINUX Systems

Essential Skills Required:

Initiate, evaluate, communicate and coordinate technical issues among different groups, and negotiate their resolution, ensuring that issues are acted upon, documented, communicated and closed within a reasonable time frame.

Build and maintain project resource plans that are dynamically available and containing all day-to-day and project efforts will be critical. Also ensure that targeted deliverable dates are effectively managed.

Help organize and participate in on-call coverage, providing technical support for the group in development, test, certification and production environments, while assisting to ensure that resources (personnel and equipment) are appropriately and reasonably allocated, and that users' expectations are properly managed and addressed.

Identify areas for improvement within the current technical services delivery; and the other groups in order to recommend and implement best-practices processes and procedures that will add value to technical services delivery.

Establish cross-training initiatives within the team to provide enhanced support capability.

Conduct and lead meetings and technical sessions with various groups as part of technical services delivery and to be able to follow up meetings with recommendations to management, action items and implementation plans

Manage incident/request tickets, response SLA's and resolution SLA's

Manage the server/client allocations based on work load.

Manage timely/detailed updates for problem tickets.

Attend the change control/fed change meetings (team members will send updates to team lead, this will increase productivity with only one team member attending these calls)NON ESSENTIAL

Skills:

The ability to communicate and present to both technical and non-technical staff and management at all levels of an organization.

o Very strong interpersonal skills.

o Sound knowledge and hands-on expertise in the following core skills set involving any combination of the following:

- AIX, Solaris and Linux system administration including installation, configuration, networking, server administration/management, troubleshooting, security, monitoring, tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery, service pack/hot fix/patch install, vendor support liaison, coordination with technical staff at all levels.

o Scripting in C, C++, Perl, and TCL.

o IBM P-series with LPAR, HACMP Clustering.

o Configuration, monitoring, job scheduling, and capacity planning..

o Understanding of SAN/NAS/RAID technologies, ability to work with SAN management group and other technical staff.

o 5 to 10 Years of industry IT experience.

o Sound knowledge and hands-on expertise in the core skills involving the following:

- AIX System Administration Skills, VIO, LDAP,GPFS

- UNIX tools knowledge

- Working with Helpdesk Ticketing software for incident management

- ITIL

- Data Communications skills, including LAN and WAN

- C, C++, Perl and TZCL Scripting skills

- SAN and NAS configuration and support

- Project planning and use of project & documentation tools

o Completion of any current vendor technology courses such as IBM, SUN.

o Industry technology vendor certifications will be very beneficial.
Please note that the successful applicant will be required to work various hours and days as the team responsibilities are 7x24. The US Tier 1 Team is a leveraged organization and many of our members support multiple client projects. These client contracts may require background checks for all members working within the client environment. Additionally, some require screening above and beyond what is required as standard screening for CGI employment in the US; to include, but not limited to, additional criminal history, drug screening and credit reporting in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. These background checks are client specific and in most cases are not transferable from one client account to the next. In order to meet the requirements of a leveraged organization, members of the US Tier 1 team may be required to complete multiple background checks during their career at CGI. All new hires into the US Tier 1 team will be required to complete client background check requests within the time frame stated in the client contract, as a condition of employment with CGI. At CGI, we're a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 69,000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients - and for our members. Come grow with us.

This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Skills
- Server - Unix

Reference: 272091