Title: Infrastructure Unix Architect
Location: Folsom, Northern California
Term: Full time & Contract positions available. Immediate hiring.
Company: Large corporation.

Full Time & Contract Positions: please indicate your interest when
you reply and please send your resume in MS Word. Relocation
assistance provided.
Please send resume to molly at fremontconsulting.com


Skills: Unix; Solaris; Linux; scripting; Enterprise Storage; Mail
Protocols; System Monitoring and Web Services


Description:
Our client is seeking a Infrastructure Architect to be part of a
highly energetic Business Applications Infrastructure team.

You must be well-versed in technical and architectural aspects of
Solaris & Linux ( Red hat ) Operating systems , & Performance
Analysis methodologies and tools , Understanding of Enterprise
Storage , DNS , NFS , Mail Protocols , TCP/IP , System Monitoring &
Web Services. (Tomcat/Apache/Jboss ).

Candidate will interface with application development teams in the
Investment Management Business and will be participating in
application infrastructure design , evaluation and implementation of
new technologies & products.

Candidate must have solid verbal and written communication skills ,
organizational & presentation skills , and be comfortable working in
a geographically diverse environment.

Principal Responsibilities:
Interface with application development teams as well various
technology infrastructure teams.
Engage with application development teams on current infrastructure
projects , evaluate existing solutions & infrastructure and provide
recommendations.
Implementation of new products/projects/environments in the
Enterprise Lab , Development & QA environments. Perform performance
benchmarks and tuning required to gain optimal application
performance.
Incident management and reporting of production outages , root cause
analysis & follow-ups.
Provide consultancy to application development & business teams on
infrastructure requirements.
Engage & partner with technology infrastructure teams ( Engineering ,
Operations etc) on working on commercial solutions that will tailor
specific application infrastructure requirements
Conduct performance analysis , trending & capacity planning. Provide
metrics and analysis of existing gaps & make recommendations
Develop run books for production support teams when needed
Work with application development teams , technology finance groups &
project management teams on yearly budgeting process for hardware &
software purchases
Communicate and guide application teams on Technology Infrastructure
best practices

Experience/Skills:
The candidate should also meet these additional requirements:

Strong inter-personal and communication skills , analytical and
problem solving skills.
Experience in integrating third party software & working & engaging
vendors when required
Solid understanding of UNIX/LINUX operating system fundamentals ,
memory subsystems , inter-process communication , file system
concepts , can use performance analysis & tools are required along
with scripting skills ( Perl/Python/Shell )
Experience as a Unix System Administrator in the past is not required.
Experience in working with enterprise storage to some capacity is
required , Websphere server architecture environment.
Understanding of SAN layouts , various RAID types & Volume Management.
Web services , Grid computing & experience is strongly desired.
Familiarity with fundamental distributed computing environment
concepts & design.
Ability to create reports on trend\gap analysis and provide
recommendation to address the risks.
Must be able to sustain a high rate of workflow and work on multiple
projects.
Must have exposure to the project management role in an enterprise
environment.
Expertise in commercial & open source monitoring software &
implementation
Virtualization experience & methodology is strong plus

Please send resume to molly at fremontconsulting.com
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