Position title – Systems Administrator
Years of Experience – 6 to 9 years
Location – Noida
Department – Production Support, Linux Operations
Reporting to – Associate Director
Shift Timings – 11 to 8 PM
Department overview
IHS Markit’s production support team strives for technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure space
Position summary
The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operations and maintenance of Linux Systems. This person ensures these systems adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, Partners and customers. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. As a senior member you will also be required to determine root cause information and train more junior resources in troubleshooting skills. We provide support on hardware for Servers with mix environment (HP, Oracle, DELL, Solaris) and models with different virtualization technologies from VMware to Solaris Zones. You will also be asked to provide provide support/evidence for Audit (SOX, ITIL, SOC2, ISO) preparation. OnCall rotation and after hours/weekend work may be required.
What You’ll Do
Engineering and Provisioning – 5%
Install new and rebuild existing servers, configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
Research and recommend innovative, and possible automated approaches.
Identify approaches that leverage resources and provide economies of scale.
Operations and Support – 60%
Perform daily system monitoring. Verify integrity and availability of hardware, server resources and systems. Review system and application logs. Verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
Perform regular security monitoring to identify possible intrusions.
Perform daily backup operations, ensuring required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media and sent off site.
Perform regular file archival and purge.
Create, change, and delete user accounts.
Provide Tier III and other support per request and troubleshoot issues.Repair and recover from hardware or software failures, coordinating and communicating with impacted constituencies.
Maintenance – 35%
Apply OS patches and upgrades regularly. Upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
Upgrade and configure system software.
Maintain operational, configuration, and other procedures.
Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
What You Need to Get the Job Done
Bachelor’s degree with a technical major, such as Engineering, Computer Science or relevant practical experience.
Must have 6+ years of Linux system administration experience.
Advanced expertise in Linux operating systems, specifically experience with RedHat Enterprise and Solaris
Advanced knowledge of configuration management tools; specifically, puppet
Advanced knowledge of Red Hat satellite server
Advanced troubleshooting skills including network, middleware such as Apache, JBoss, Tomcat and Java, and OS/Hardware
Manage services like FTP, Samba, NFS
Advanced scripting expertise in languages such as bash, perl, ruby and/or python
Advanced filesystem knowledge such as LVM and Disk Partitions and installation of RPMs, Kick start management
Solid understanding of Software installs or updates that require root access or GUI redirects
System Monitoring, Securing Network, Securing Services and Securing Data on Linux OS
Knowledge of Visio, MS Project and standard office type applications
Excellent verbal and written communications kills
Knowledge of DEVOPS operations models is ideal but not required.
Essential – Understanding of enterprise architecture including networking, load balancing, LDAP, DNS, NTP, AD integration.
Essential – Understanding of continuous integration environments and the related toolsets
Desirable – Previous experience of source code repositories and code review systems (git, svn, gerrit).
Desirable – Experience of working in an OpenShift and/or AWS based deployment model
Advantageous – Knowledge of UCS x86 hardware and previous experience working in a VMware based virtualized environment.
Advantageous – Experience of RHEL7, Atomic (or another container tuned OS tech).
Advantageous – experience or exposure to Red Hat Gluster storage solutions
Exposure VMware and virtual infrastructure a plus
Responsibilities may require working evenings/weekends, sometimes with little advanced notice
OnCall rotation for the duration of 1 week ever 6-8 weeks.
No regular travel.
What You’ll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!
Total Rewards. Monetary, beneficial and developmental rewards!
Work Life Balance. You can’t do a good job if your job is all you do!
Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
Employee Assistance Program. Confidential and Professional Counselling and Consulting.
Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
Company overview
IHS Markit harnesses deep sources of information, analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the industries and markets that drive global economies. Our company partners with clients in business, finance and government to provide the unrivalled insights and perspectives that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. We call this The New Intelligence.
IHS Markit serves more than 50,000 key customers in more than 140 countries, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500. We help decision makers apply higher-level thinking to daily tasks and strategic issues across a host of industries and disciplines including energy, finance, automotive, engineering, technology, maritime and trade, chemical, and economics and country risk.
Headquartered in London, IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.
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