<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Greg Hester" <<a href="mailto:ghester@theintersectgroup.com">ghester@theintersectgroup.com</a>><br>Date: Sep 7, 2011 9:27 AM<br>Subject: re: Unix Systems Administrator<br>
To: "James Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jimkinney@gmail.com">jimkinney@gmail.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><u></u>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">The Intersect Group, a leading IT consulting
services organization, has an immediately available contract openings and a
contract-to-permanent opening in the Smyrna/Vinings area for Unix Systems
Administrator.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">The client site will be moving to the Perimeter
area of Dunwoody in about 6 months.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">Perform the installation,
configuration, administration, and maintenance of computer systems with UNIX
and/or Linux operating systems. Provide technical support, and
troubleshoot problems on local and remote UNIX and Linux servers. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">Work under general
supervision with latitude for independent judgment. May consult with senior
peers, UNIX team members and corporate engineers on certain projects. Moderate
skills, with high level of proficiency. Typically requires five to eight years
of experience. </p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><b>Primary Responsibilities:</b> </p>
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Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining UNIX/Linux servers and
their associated storage. These systems are located around the
world in multiple data centers, so after hours phone support will be
required.</p>
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Performs software installations and upgrades to UNIX operating systems in
accordance with established policies, procedures and service level
agreements.</p>
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Monitors and tunes servers to achieve appropriate levels of performance and
reliability.</p>
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Ensures the safety and security of corporate data through adherence to corporate
backup standards and disaster recovery procedures.</p>
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The ability to assist in a “hands on” manner in two data centers in the Atlanta
metro area (Headquarters & Lithia Springs) is deemed essential, so residency
in the Atlanta area is required. Travel to other offices may occasionally
be required, but is rare -- on average less than twice per year.</p>
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Will be required to support multiple architectures (IBM P-Series, HP PA-RISC, HP
Itanium, SUN UltraSPARC, x86-64) throughout their entire lifecycle: rack,
install, support, upgrade, support, repurpose, support, decommission,
disposal).</p>
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Supporting multiple versions of each Operating System (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris,
RedHat).</p>
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Will be expected to assist in implementing and architecting process
automation.</p>
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Research, evaluate and recommend new hardware and software for systems as
required.</p>
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Conducts routine audits to ensure servers are compliant with established
standards and configuration guidelines.</p>
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Documentation of all work according to established standards.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><b>General Qualifications:</b></p>
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An education in computer science or a related field.</p>
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Significant programming background in any applicable language.</p>
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Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. </p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b>Education and/or Experience:</b></p>
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Bachelor's degree (B.S. or B.A.) from four-year college or university. Five to
eight years of system administration experience, preferably in a software
development environment.<br> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b>Other Skills and Abilities:</b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b>Required Skills</b></p>
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase
justifications, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an
internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management.</p>
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Independent problem-solving, self-direction.</p>
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Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example,
system installation and configuration, fundamentals of security, installing
third party software. </p>
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Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging
and swapping, inter-process communication, file system concepts (inode,
clustering, logical partitions).</p>
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Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment
concepts; can configure NFS and NIS; can use nslookup or dig to check
information in the DNS; understands basic routing concepts.</p>
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Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl, shell, others as
needed).</p>
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Ability to build open source software and do minimal debugging and modification
of C programs.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b>Nice to have Skills</b></p>
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Experience with centralized storage (SAN and NAS).</p>
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Experience with networking (Cisco IOS, firewalls).</p>
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Familiarity with implementing LDAP solutions.</p>
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Practice building open source software solutions.</p>
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Experience with ClearCase</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">Qualified candidates should forward their resumes
to <a href="mailto:ghester@theintersectgroup.com" target="_blank">ghester@theintersectgroup.com</a>
for consideration.<b></b></p>
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