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</tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td colspan="2" style="padding:6px 0px">Administrator, Systems (UNIX)</td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><th colspan="2" style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px">Location</th></tr>
<tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td colspan="2" style="padding:6px 0px">Phoenix</td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><th colspan="2" style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px">Description<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></th></tr></tbody></table><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Builds and maintains Linux/Solaris systems. Analyzes and assess corporate requirements from both an enterprise and departmental perspective with minimum supervision Self-starter and extremely capable of communicating effectively with co-workers at both the technical and non-technical levels. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">System Monitoring and Maintenance: Daily monitoring of servers health, shell scripting to develop and/or modify scripts for automated monitoring and other system administrator tasks. Maintain server uptime consistent with corporate goals and metrics. Schedule system maintenance windows to update firmware, apply system patches on all Unix servers. Monitor helpdesk email for user service requests. Conduct testing and analysis of all components of all enterprise UNIX servers.  </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Problem resolution: Anticipates issues before users impacted - Analyze system / applications problems to resolve issues promptly. Monitor email and for problem tickets requiring resolution. Document problem resolution consistently for team knowledgebase. Confer with management on open issues, potential problems, priorities and projects that effect the timely completion of projects or effect project objectives. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">System Performance and Security: Maintain and constantly improve server performance, reliability and security, including kernel tuning, file system layout and optimization, and ongoing update of services in compliance with security policies. Participate in audits and 3rd party server scans as deemed appropriate by management. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">System Backups: Verify daily backups of all Unix servers. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">System Installation: Create/maintain basic system installation documentation, update firmware, administer jumpstart server to install operating system, apply security hardening. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Business Continuity: Develop, implement and maintain high availability and disaster recovery strategies for UNIX servers.     </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">SKILLS, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Required Skills </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making a presentation to an internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Independent problem-solving, self direction. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing third party software. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Has a solid understanding of a UNIX-based operation system; understands paging and swapping, interprocess communication, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, logical partitions). </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; can configure NFS; can use nslookup or dig to check information in the DNS; understands basic routing concepts. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Tk - Expect, Perl, a shell, Python) </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
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<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Required Background </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">3-5 years of UNIX (Linux Red Hat, Solaris) system administration experience </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Desirable Background and Skills </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">A degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent years of experience </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Significant programming background in any applicable language </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Knowledge and experience managing LDAP </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Knowledge and experience managing Salt Stack, or Puppet </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Knowledge and experience managing Weblogic </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Knowledge and experience with VMware technologies </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Appropriate Responsibilities </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Receives general instructions for new responsibilities from supervisor </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Administers a complex site alone or assists in the administration of a larger site </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Initiates some new responsibilities and helps plan for the future of the site/network </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">Evaluates and/or recommends purchases; has strong influence on purcha</span><table class="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:609px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet,'San Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:17.600000381469727px">
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