Sample Job Description for a LINUX/Windows Enginer

Job Description:

Provide overall design, implementing, capacity planning, securing, documenting, patching and administrating all physical and virtual LINUX and Windows Systems. Administer SQL, Progress and DB2 database environments
Develop and maintain reliable and effective backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions for LINUX file systems, databases and custom application code environments
Create, test and deploy scripts to automate normal administration tasks and duties

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Proactive 24/7 monitoring, troubleshooting and support of production, quality assurance and development environment Operating Systems and Databases
Manage and enhance a customized Nagios monitoring and alerting system
Check systems, event and database logs. (OS, Appservers, replication, Webspeed)
Check database backups
Check daily batch logs
Check “After Image” database files
Assist consultants and development in our transition to a highly secured LINUX environment
Check LINUX files systems (Physical and Virtual) – Development, QA, Production, Support, and Disaster Recovery
Ensure that Production databases are replicating to Disaster Recovery databases
Redo production database replication as failures occur
Create and maintain shell scripts for databases and systems task automation
Analyze and sustain capacity and performance requirements for all LINUX servers
Install and test upgrades and patches for LINUX and progress databases as required
On call 24×7

Additional Responsibilities:

Applied schema changes (new tables and fields)
Deploy internally developed and tested applications and configurations into Production, Support and Disaster Recovery environments
Check Support, QA, Development and Internal Audit database refreshes
Monthly schema load and QA support for new code releases
New database creation requests
Refresh Support, Development and QA databases as needed
Support QA and Development groups with any database or script issues
Check code backups
Assist in support of PRO2SQL environment
Manage Progress databases, LINUX Licensing and maintenance

Job Qualifications:

Associate Degree (AA) in Information Technology/Information Systems from an accredited college or university is required
Bachelor’s (BS) Degree in Information Technology/Information Systems from an accredited college or university preferred
A minimum of 7-10 years as a professional Systems Administrator/Engineer required
This experience should include the following specialty areas: Dell and IBM servers and blade/chassis, SQL Server database administration (Progress and DB2 Database experience a plus), Linux (SUSE enterprise preferred)
Database performance tuning and capacity planning
Supporting 1000+ Business users and Developer
Support and QA teams

Skills Required: