Posted 117 months ago
Unix Production Support
@ Info-Ways
Montréal, Quebec
Overview
Info-Ways is hiring a contract Unix production support specialist in Montreal for a 6+ month full-time assignment. The role manages Linux and Solaris operations, handles production incidents, runs proactive health tasks, and occasionally does weekend project work.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve production-impacting compute and storage issues
- Coordinate with networking, database and hosted solution teams on outages
- Carry out proactive health and compliance tasks
- Test and certify new hardware and software with engineering
- Occasional weekend project work onboarding new UNIX assets
Requirements summary:
- Unix/Linux system administration on Red Hat and Solaris
- Strong troubleshooting proficiency
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS
- Experience with Veritas Clustering and NetBackup storage
- Scripting in Korn Shell, Perl or Python
- Configuration management with Satellite, Quattor, Puppet or Chef
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2017-04-11
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | IT |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| 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 Production Support
Location: Montreal, Canada
Duration: 6+ Months / Fulltime
BGV will be done for the selected candidates.
The Unix Operations team is responsible for implementing and managing the Linux Operations. 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)
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