The Pythian Group is seeking a Senior Unix Systems Administrator in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
You will be measured not by years of experience but rather by overall
abilities, so please feel free to apply even if you don’t have years &
years of experience.
Criteria:
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* experience with more than one flavor of Unix
(Solaris/Linux/HPUX/AIX)
* experience working with 24x7 production systems
* proficiency in Shell and Perl scripting
* experience with installation, configuration, and deployment
* involvement in capacity-planning and performance-tuning
* knowledge and experience supporting and troubleshooting Veritas
products, specifically Veritas Volume Manager and VxFS - Veritas
File System
* exceptional troubleshooting skills and support of critical
production environments
* knowledge and experience supporting networking services and
protocols such as TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, FTP, SSH, SMTP, IPSEC,
Samba, Sendmail
* good understanding of storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DAS, etc.)
* willingness to work with Windows systems
* ability to learn quickly
* consulting, Cluster and DBA experience a plus
* fluent communications skills in English both written and oral
Job Highlights:
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* work in an elite team of System Administrators for an elite
group of customers
* work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform —
Solaris, Linux, AIX, HPUX, Windows, etc.
* work across multiple industries including health care,
manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and
many more
* work in a company that values hard work, not long work
* work in a company that will allow you to research and write
articles, presentations, and blog posts on company time, and pay
for you to present your research at any user conference in North
America where it gets accepted
To Apply:
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Send an e-mail with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why
you are exceptional, to pythianhr AT gmail.com. (We use gmail for our HR
inbox because of its superior labelling, sorting, and searching
features.) Please attach your résumé in Word or PDF format. Learn more
about Pythian and see our customer list at www.pythian.com.