Senior Support Consultant / Technical Lead
Quantum IT Solutions, Pakistan

We are currently looking for a robust, dynamic and passionate IT professional to act as a Senior Support Consultant / Technical Lead with exposure in Linux and/or Unix.You will be reporting directly to Director Consulting & Manager Managed Services.

The Key responsibilities for this challenging role includes:

Managing Unix and Oracle related accounts and act as L3 support for critical System Admin related calls. Ideally we are looking for a candidate who possess capabilities in both Linux & Unix with some background preferably in Oracle.

For System Admin Support, you should have experience of 4 or more years with exposure to:

· Production support of UNIX or Linux servers for the front and back office

· Perform daily UNIX/Linux system administration tasks within the UNIX/Linux infrastructure, including monitoring and diagnosing backup issues· Support and consultancy for the Development and UAT UNIX Environments, Backup and Storage Products and Disaster Recovery.

· Automation of process utilising your scripting (Shell or Perl) skills

· Develop and implement methods to pro-actively manage the environment

· Ongoing BAU and Project workTechnical skills required include: (not all mandatory)

· HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux/Redhat installation & administration

· Working with Volume Groups

· Comprehensive study & implementation of System backups for all flavours of Unix.

· Performance Analysis experience

· Working exposure with Cluster softwares on Unix Flavours

· NFS/NTP/DNS/DHCP/ Network configuration on different Unix Flavours.

· Comprehensive understanding of networks, DNS, web services, tomcat & Java preferred· Network protocols (TCP/IP)

· Shell scripting (ksh, perl)· Experience in monitoring systems remotely

Skills: In combination, you are required to have

· Exceptional troubleshooting abilities

· Worked with servers communicating through firewalls and have a full understanding of firewalls down to port/protocol level.

· A good understanding of the demands of supporting servers in mission-critical environments such as those in the Banking/ Financial sector.

· Experience in providing and supporting Service Continuity (DR).

· Ability to handle rapidly changing and competing priorities and able to work after hours .. Good communication skills

· Tertiary Education (University degree/Advance Diploma)· Ability to work in a team environment & learn new technologies

· Experience in looking after 24/7 environments

· Be able & available to work on Production issues after hours or on weekends

· Experience in working under a production support & pressured environment

· Troubleshooting, problem solving and able to drive issues to resolution

· Experience in performing health checks of database systems

. Experience with virtualisation software technologies

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