Unix Systems Administrator II

Description

The Unix Systems Administrator is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and upgrade of Unix hardware and software as a member of the Systems Operations team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain production backup infrastructure and participate in disaster recovery planning.
  
• Implements and documents system enhancements that will improve the reliability and performance of the system.
  
• Alert management to potential problems and respond to emergency events.
  
• Assists in the design, deployment and maintenance of all Unix-based systems for Lucasfilm companies.
  
• Acts as a liaison for Lucasfilm with outside systems vendors to obtain service and support for Unix systems.
  
• Lead the upgrade, maintenance and administration of all production network backup systems in a heterogeneous client/server environment.
  
• Provide backup system tuning and capacity planning to accommodate all corporate Microsoft and UNIX network server systems, optimizing policies to ensure the fastest and most efficient backup/restore times.
  
• Conduct all production data restore requests.
  
• Troubleshoot, track and resolve issues involving backups/restores for both servers and clients.
  
• Coordinate all tape management issues, including tape inventory, vendor offsite storage rotation, and robot capacity planning.
  
• Monitor all backup servers and tape robots, and conduct or coordinate any/all upgrades and repairs.
  
• Provide disaster recovery vision, planning, coordination, maintenance, and implementation.
  
• Recommend the best technology possible to solve a problem or project, regardless of brand, vendor, or platform. Remains open to non-traditional solutions.
  
• Documents all processes, procedures and operations for both internal needs and end users when required.
  
• Liaison with managers and systems administrators to meet the highest demands of the system uptime.
  
• Participate in periodic off-hours downtime performing upgrades, installations, etc.

• BS/CS and 5 years hands-on experience with UNIX (Solaris and Linux preferred) system administration, operating system support, and shell scripting.
  
• Minimum of 3 years experience hands-on with Veritas Netbackup in a Unix environment at the enterprise level.
  
• Programming skills in administrative languages, shell scripting, and PERL is required.
  
• Previous disaster recovery planning for IT systems in a corporate or production environment.
  
• Knowledge of DNS/NIS required.
  
• Knowledge and exposure to multi-terabyte SAN infrastructure a plus.
  
• Experience with large scale multiprocessing hardware and software systems.
  
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  
• Professional and friendly service oriented demeanor with co-workers and customers.
  
• Self-motivated energetic team player who can work alongside others to maximize team performance.
  
• Solid decision-making, problem solving, and organizational skills.
  
• Proactive and willing to complete unassigned tasks and take on tasks beyond job scope.
  

• Must be willing to participate in an on-call rotation.
  
• Ability to lift up to 40 lbs is a requirement of this position.