UNIX Mid Range Support Consultant

Visionpool Business Services is hiring a UNIX Mid Range Support Consultant who will provides for the day-to-day administration, management, and support of the UNIX environment.THIS OPPORTUNITY IS LOCATED 100% ON SITE IN REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN

RESPONSIBILITIES (included but not limited to):

Ensure a secure, highly available Data Centre environment to support business requirements.

Continually monitor all systems, platforms and environments for availability, capacity, and

performance, and proactively manage, including configuration management and asset reporting and refresh, the environments, as appropriate, to minimize the risk of service disruption.

Provide backup and recovery and disaster recovery services and, where needed, high availability environments. UNIX Server Technician shall effectively manage incidents and problems following escalation and notification procedures.

Work with appropriate third parties in a coordinated manner to ensure compliance with best practices, policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.

Monitor on an ongoing basis that there are adequate facilities within the Data Centre(s) configured for the current and planned server and other computing requirements, including:

• Rack space,
• Suitable power,
• UPS support,
• Port availability on core switches and firewalls,
• Adequate Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems,
• Blade slots in chassis, and
• Physical security.

Data Center Services

Assist with provisioning of hardened and secure data center environment located at facilities.

Follow leading practices for facility services such as power redundancy, AC, etc.

This includes the following services:

• Escorted access for non-authorized staff and representatives will be provided,
• Environmental controls, including temperature and humidity on raised floor space,
• Fire alarms and fire suppressions systems,
• Conditioned UPS based electrical circuits,
• Uninterruptible power supply,
• Physical security for equipment, forms, tapes, and documentation,
• Temporary use of shared office facilities as appropriate,
• Redundant data communication entry points to the facility, and
• Provide Audit reports as required by Auditors or Internal Audit.

Direct Storage Management (DASD)

Monitor, manage, optimize, and control direct access storage performance management, initialize direct access storage volumes, establish direct access storage standards, and perform catalogue management.

recovery, tracking, control, monitoring, and reporting DASD and tape data storage utilization. Storage Management produces useful information for analyzing trends in performance,

capacity, availability, and load balancing as they are related to data storage. This support includes the following:

• Identifying and maintaining the appropriate threshold levels to reduce potential space constraints,
• Communicating disk space availability, space-related problems, and areas of potential problems,
• Creating and maintaining plans for system and user catalogues and for incremental and full-volume backup and recovery,
• Recommending efficient block sizes, migration criteria, and other parameters that affect DASD usage and capacity,
• Allocating storage pools, as required, and approved by service requests for production and testing,
• Reporting on direct access storage utilization, allocation, and historical usage of datasets on direct access storage.

Capacity Management

Project future trends and capacity requirements for new projects and provide such information to the appropriate personnel as it pertains to the services.

Monitor and document current workload trends and provide the information to T&S Management for use in determining future capacity requirements.

Performance management

Define current and future requirements and plans determining capacity and performance requirements.

Execute approved requests of additional capacity for Intel Windows based Servers.

Test Server performance, capacity, and throughput for new or changed applications before promoting such applications into the environment or components; and

Establish a schedule for performance of dedicated server maintenance (for example, virus and malicious software detection, backup, disk space cleanup) and for

implementing modifications and enhancements to the environment to minimally affect availability of the environment.

Define thresholds within the selected tool's capability and performance indicators to monitor UNIX server platform performance against such indicators.

Install and configure system management agents for the operating system using SRM (Server Res