System Maintenance Technician

System Maintenance Technician (Linux/UNIX)

Job LocationsUS-TX-Austin

Responsibilities

Server maintenance is the process of keeping servers working by deploying reviews that preemptively evaluate the status of assigned assets and their interoperability with required resources and functions
Work with Facilities to obtain Power and backup Power
Work with facilities to connect power cables
Work with networking team to obtain Internet cabling and IP addresses
Work with networking teams to connect network cables
Ensure required monitoring agents are also active on all servers
Review Monitoring results for anomalies and performance issues
Review Server Event Viewers to check for security, System, and event anomalies
Remove temporary files weekly on maintenance, Internet cache files, and unnecessary program files
Keep tracking databases up to date
Create and distribute maintenance activities weekly to all staff leads
Perform as needed Tasks

Qualifications

Datacenter and server hardware installation and setup including rack space and power management
Linux and UNIX server Maintenance commands such as disk space, directory and file sizes, and scripting
Performance and configuration monitoring tools such as BigFix, puppet, SNMP, SolarWinds, Splunk, and ScienceLogic
Configuring and monitoring UNIX Server system logs and temporary files for continuous operation.
Monitor and validate Linux, Solaris and UNIX OS patch levels
Server hardware maintenance, including firmware patching, defective hardware replacement (CPU, memory, drives, mother boards, etc..) with ESD compliance
Server validation after any warranty or field engineer work
Lights out management such as iDRAC, etc.
OS storage technologies such as Linux LVM, Solaris zpools, SuperCluster dataset
Server Hardware RAID configuration and maintenance

Education:

AA or two year technical school in Computer Science, Systems, Business, or related scientific/technical discipline and 3 years’ work experience
Four (4) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (7 years total)