Circana - Senior System Administrator - Red Hat/CentOS

The Senior Administrator provides hands-on day-to-day technical support for Linux & UNIX systems at an experienced level.

The scope of this position includes mission critical support for Linux & UNIX servers, all of which are in our Global Datacenters and Regional Datacenters.

This individual will be part of a team that is responsible for the following operational areas: support, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and participating in technology driven projects to enhance our service.

Job Responsibilities :

- Support and administration of 4000+ Linux servers in a highly commercial and agile environment

- Install/Troubleshoot hardware as necessary

- Build servers following standard procedures and deliver them as per agreed timelines

- Work with users to troubleshoot and solve operational issues

- Provide operating system level support to application developers and performing server migrations as necessary

- Responsible for coordinating planned and unplanned outages and potential recovery efforts in the event of system failure

- Building CentOS/RHEL/OEL using the Golden Image and perform Image backups

- Responsible for deploying security patches to the server environment by following standard patching methodology

- Perform Firmware updates as per the recommendation from Vendor

- Monitor system logs, activity and performance on all servers daily

- Utilize ticketing system to address and resolve customer work requests

- Know-how in infrastructure support, data center operations and service delivery

- Understanding of ITIL methodology and effective operations governance methods and processes

- Manage and monitor server uptimes and not impacting SLA levels

- Willingness to work in rotational shifts including US/EU/APAC Business hours

- Join Team meetings & provide updates on Action items/initiatives

- Support VMs in Azure/Cloud environment

- Provide RCA for Sev1/Sev2 Outages and work towards permanent resolution of the issue

- Experience with Cisco UCS, HP-UX, DELL PowerEdge and HP Proliant hardware preferred

- Document the procedures and follow best practice procedures

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