Posted 118 months ago
Unix or Linux Admin
@ Info-Ways
Montréal, Quebec
Overview
Info-Ways is hiring a contract Unix or Linux administrator in Montreal for 6+ months. The role manages Linux and Solaris infrastructure, handles production incidents and proactive maintenance, and supports compute and storage systems. Background verification is required for selected candidates.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve production-impacting Unix and Linux issues
- Maintain operational stability and compliance through proactive health tasks
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams on outage resolution
- Test and certify new hardware and software products
- Occasional weekend project work for new UNIX assets
Requirements summary:
- Unix/Linux administration on Red Hat and Solaris
- Proficient troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of network, TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS
- Veritas Clustering and NetBackup experience
- Scripting in Korn Shell, Perl or Python
- Configuration management with Satellite, Quattor, Puppet or Chef
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2017-03-08
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-14
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | IT |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Plant or factory |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Info-Ways
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 72 |
Company Description
IT
Job Description
Role: Unix or Linux Admin
Location: Montreal, Canada
Duration: 6+ Months
BGV will be done for the selected candidates.
The UnixOperations team is responsible for implementing and
managing the Linux infrastructure for company .. The
group is involved in evaluation, certification,
integration, and maintenance of various products,
including hardware, Operating Systems, such as Red
Hat Linux and Solaris, system services (DNS, DHCP,
NTP, syslog, etc.), file systems (NFS, AFS, Hadoop
and various cluster file systems), High
Availability, Virtualization technologies and a
variety of in-house developed tools. We interact
with a high number of customers from numerous
business units to generate improvements that ensure
the smooth operation of the plant without being hard
to manage. We also liaise with engineering groups to
set direction for the many disciplines that are part
of our day-to-day service portfolio (storage, core
infrastructure services and special projects) and
create different solutions for the low-level
components that makes our infrastructure tick. We
interact with many customers from numerous business
units as a mechanism to generate improvements to be
able to 'run the bank' more efficiently and
effectively. The role is critical to our day to day
incident management function with primary
responsibilities for:?Diagnosis and resolution of
immediate production impacting issues in the compute
and storage plant?Working with other infrastructure
teams including networking, database administration
and hosted solution teams for outage resolution, as
well as customers aligned with the business users of
our plant to determine scope, impact, and
appropriate resolution path?Carry out proactive
health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational
stability and compliance for risk & control
programs to ensure the production environment is not
put at risk?Collaborate with engineering teams to
test and certify new hardware & software
products?Occasional weekend project work
responsibilities to on-board new UNIX assets for
growth or large programs such as new datacenter
build outsWe are looking for you if you have a good
mix of the following skills:?Unix/Linux system
administration (Red Hat / Solaris)?Troubleshooting
(proficiency)?Network, TCP/IP stack, particularly
HTTP and DNS?Veritas Clustering?Storage / Netbackup
(AFS, SAN, NAS)?Scripting (Korn Shell / Perl /
Python)?Configuration Management (Red Hat Satellite,
Quattor, Puppet, Chef)
Additional Information
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