System Maintenance Technician (Linux/UNIX)

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)