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Thursday, 28 June 2012

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Position: Unix Admin

Location: ATLANTA, GA

Duration: 2 Years

 

 

Project Description:

Operational Support for AT&T Cloud operationsCustomer Facing assignment

 

Job Description:

JOB DESCRIPTION

Cloud Computing Sr. Applications/Systems Engineer

 

JOB SUMMARY:

Successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining the stability and supportability of AT&T cloud solutions. Candidate will be a member of an integrated operations team to launch and support Cloud platforms and enablers. Candidate will directly interface with development teams, vendors, product, sales and customers. Candidate will engineer operational requirements, test cases, technical documentation provide operational support after launch. This is a client-facing technical position, so – in addition to demonstrated technical acumen - written and verbal communication skills, diplomacy, and the ability to work well under pressure are required.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

• Monitor, maintain, & support AT&T cloud solutions

• Ensure standard processes exist for systems installation, configuration, patching, and upgrading.

• Ability to provide documentation and create MOPs /SMOPS for the supporting technologies

• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and flexibility to change course as required

• Develop guidelines for systems monitoring to ensure maximum availability, uptime, and performance.

• Research, troubleshoot, and resolve system performance issues and outages.

• Ensure documentation standards are created and adhered to.

• Ensure that security procedures are implemented and enforced.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems to ensure minimal disruption of mission-critical applications.

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant hardware and software applications as assigned.

• Support of web portals, orchestration, platform, application, API, network and monitoring needs. Platform support (monitoring capabilities, performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintaining overall service and platform health).

• Validating and supporting new cloud solutions. This involves UAT, ORT testing and driving operational requirements. Outputs include Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Production Verification, Developer and Administrative Portals,

• Maintaining overall platform stability, security, and supportability

• Develop operational requirements for solutions to complex issues, including those which require extensive research, analysis, critical thinking, collaboration, and precision in the execution in order to resolve

• Review Life Cycle changes, release management and feature adds

• Engineer detailed change documentation, risk assess and execute (MOPs/SMOPs)

• Present recommendations to developers, vendors and product owners

• Tier-3-level support to Service Assurance team (on call 24x7)

• Facilitate post-outage reviews (POR), manage Service Incident Reporting (SIR), develop and deliver Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to AT&T management and to the customer

• Act as quality-gate for new solutions providing operational testing and requirements

• Providing technical mentoring to peers and partner organizations

• Developing and maintaining all technical documentation related to the cloud solutions and applications (SMOPs/MOPs, System documentation, troubleshooting guides, customer-specific knowledge base, etc)

• Overall customer relationship management

 

REQUIRED:

 

• 5+ years systems administration experience managing enterprise Unix/Linux/Oracle environment

• 3+ years in a 24by7 production operations role supporting IaaS, PaaS or SaaS offerings in a highly available multi-data center environment.

• Scripting (Shell, Perl, CGI, etc.), SSH, HTTP/S, Networking, web hosting technologies, some flavor of Java technologies (Java, JDBC, Jserv, JBOSS).

• VMWare ESX 4.1

• mySQL DBA

• Load Blancers

• BEA Weblogic cluster with Veritas HA Foundation Manager

• Apache

• Java

• Symantec NetBackup Clien

• Knowledge of web development (SOAP, REST)

Strong experience in interaction technologies with Midtier : Web Service APIs, REST, etc

 

 

Desired Skills:

• Experience support network components load balancers, switches, firewalls etc

• Knowledge of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

• Experience with vCloud Director, vSphere

• Cloud platform experience (SFDC, Workday, Google) a strong positive.

• Balance of strong tactical problem-solving skills and analytical skills.

• Strong understanding of the integration between mobile applications, servers, and networks

 

Please ensure tht all candidates know that this is a 24X7 assignment and FLEXIBILITY is required.

 

As previously shared by sponsoring manager on a vendor call - we are looking for candidates who have worn multiple hats - launched new products (from start to finish), are open to new experiences/learnings - self starter and has excellent communication skills.

 

 

 

Skills Inventory

                Skill       Experience         Need

1)           Unix/RHCE        Expert  Required

2)           Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript      Expert  Required

3)           Tomcat, Apache/Websphere, Webservices        Expert  Required

4)           Experience with large-scale distributed systems an       Expert  Required

5)           Linux networking and storage  Intermediate     Desired

6)           VMware ESX/ESX 4.1   Intermediate     Desired

7)           Communication (written and Oral)       Expert  Required

8)           vCloud Director               Intermediate     Required

9)           CCNA/ CCNP Certification          Expert  Desired

10)         Linux    Expert  Required

 

 

 

 

Vikram

Talented IT 
Direct : 678 685 8170

800 W. Fifth Avenue. Suite 208A

Naperville, IL 60563

Fax: 630 596 4476
Email: 
vikram@talentedit.com 
URL: 
http://www.talentedit.com/

 

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