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2016-10-25 13:04:35| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. Linux System Engineer 1613190 Job Description We are looking for a Linux System Engineer for our client EUMETSAT. You shall support the Computer and Storage Management team, in areas of Ground Segment implementation, commissioning and routine operations. The duties range from the support to the operation of the Linuxbased ground segment facilities, to the analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of distributed hardware and system software platforms. This includes the settingup and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures, the support to the procurement of hardware and software, and the coordination with external providers of maintenance services. You shall perform the following tasks installation and configuration of operating system and other software, tuning of operating systems parameters to optimize performance analysis, planning and performance of HW and SW upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between subsystems monitoring of the system performance, investigation into HW and system SW problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions ensuring that in case of HW or system SW failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backup procedures liaison with the external providers of HW and system SW maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions administration of user accounts support to SW development and maintenance in relation to the utilization of system resources implementation and maintenance of scripts andor procedures where applicable for the automated andor controlled execution of the above activities, generation or update of technical documentation in relation to system upgrades provision of standbyoncall support provision of support, as required, to critical operations You will also be expected to generate and maintain documentation. This may comprise writing and reviewing requirement and design specifications, change proposals, preparing documents supporting procurements, reviewing data packages belonging to technical inspections and reviews, writing and reviewing IT architecture and design, writing design evaluation reports, writingreviewing reports, test reports and overall status reports. Required Skills and Experience A university degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline At least 5 years experience of assessing and administrating computer systems and a very extensive experience in IT system design. The experience shall have been acquired in an operational or production environment, driven by high availability requirements. Proven knowledge and handson experience with the following is mandatory at least 5 years experience in the administration and troubleshooting of distributed systems expert knowledge and a significant work experience of Linux operating systems Redhat and SLES very good IT system design skills good experience in VMware virtualization good understanding of incident and problem management technical documentation skills experience in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements. Familiar, to the extent required by the performance of the above tasks, with as many as possible of the following skills and system software environments TCPIP and related network protocols and applications, e.g. NIS, LDAP, NFS, DNS, SNMP, FTP, NTP, etc High Availability software like Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster or any other Standby callout support may be required Desirable Skills and Experience Experience in the installation, administration and troubleshooting on some of the following shall be considered as an advantage Dell HP computers running Linux UNIX Solaris, AIX and MS Windows System Administration RAID arrays EMC SAN Fabrics Brocade Backup and recovery systems Able to carry out basic hardware support such as installing interface cards or physically setting up networks. Work Location Darmstadt, Germany Dates Application Deadline 25 November 2016 Start of Work February 2017 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in Germany. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 25 November 2016 Learn more about us in Facebook
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