Linux/Solaris Administrator in Boston, MA

We are seeking a Sr UNIX Administrator for a 3-6 month contract-to-hire position in the Boston metro area.

Job Description:
The person in this role will act as the sole individual supporting engineers in a small UNIX shop. The consultant will be expected to work autonomously while adhering to corporate defined architectural and procedural standards.

Responsibilities include:
-First point of contact and direct support for IT and Engineering Compute issues at site
-First responder to local IT service outages; first point of escalation for off hours issues
-Installation and maintenance of Engineering Compute infrastructure including storage arrays, compute servers, and engineering desktop workstations
-Advise management and architecture teams of evolving IT and Engineering Compute needs
-Act as liaison to remote Corporate IT & Business Unit service providers
-Generally ensure that desktop and engineering IT needs are being met.

Some minimal travel to southern California will occasionally be required.

Skills/Experience:
- UNIX Systems Administration experience (5-10 years)
- Linux experience required; SUSE/SLES experience preferred
- Solaris experience required
- Desktop Unix support experience required
- NAS experience required; Netapp experience preferred
- RAID direct attach storage experience required
- HA Cluster technologies (Sun Cluster,Veritas) experience preferred
- LAN/WAN troubleshooting experience preferred
- Ability to read/maintain/debug shell scripts (perl,ksh,sh) required
- Desktop Windows XP support experience required
- Excellent customer service skills a must
Additional Skills:
- Experience supporting EDA tools highly desirable (Cadence, Synopsis, Designsync)
- Grid computing experience highly desirable (LSF)
- Data Center operations experience highly desirable
- Enterprise level Windows administration a plus

Education Requirements:
Required: Bachelor's, Computer Science or equivalent experience

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