Remote Senior UNIX Administrator

Summary

Join our team as a Senior UNIX Administrator to manage large UNIX server environments, lead project teams, and collaborate with developers and infrastructure peers. This role requires advanced technical skills, leadership abilities, and adherence to regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (BS), Computer Science, Information Systems, Red Hat Certified Engineer or greater, or similar technical program preferred
• Seven years experience as a UNIX or Linux Server Administrator
• AIX, HP-UX, or RHEL Server Administration certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Performs advanced and/or highly complex work with minimal or no supervision
• Establishes work plan for department based on organizational goals; sets independent objectives to accomplish specific tasks supporting the larger plan
• Leads functional or virtual departmental or inter-departmental teams and demonstrates accountability for completion of team-wide objectives
• Creates, installs, patches and upgrades UNIX, Linux and VMware operating systems and server software packages
• Performs on-going performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization
• Leads and participates in capacity planning and system lifecycle management
• In partnership with other subject matter experts and our Business Continuity department, design, test and implement complex solutions that support high availability and inter-site and intra-site fail over capabilities
• Provisions and controls user permissions and privileges with strict adherence to access guidelines following SOC1 and CIP standards
• Provides technical support to software development, infrastructure, IT operations and inter-departmental teams
• Participates in and/or leads in-depth troubleshooting and root cause analysis in inter-disciplinary teams
• Designs and maintains UNIX systems to adhere to all established NYISO and regulatory (i.e. NERC CIP, SOC1) standards
• Manages data and information requests to support internal and external audit requests
• Provides 24x7 technical support on a rotational basis
• Mentors and trains associate and UNIX administrators
• Establishes and communicates NYISO UNIX and Linux server standards and policies and procedures
• Participates in on-going IT strategic planning with primary focus on UNIX and VMware server technologies
• Leads and/or participates in system lifecycle management
• Participates in procurement activities and support contract management
• Leads and/or participates in license management and compliance
• Understands networking and storage technologies and participates in planning and troubleshooting network and storage services for Unix and VMware infrastructure
• Creates and maintains detailed documentation of Linux, Unix and VMware configurations and functions
• Establishes and maintains working relationship with key strategic vendors to understand technical direction of server technologies

Benefits

• The NYISO offers the flexibility to work both in the office and remotely, providing our employees with an enhanced work life balance
• The NYISO takes pride in recruiting, developing and retaining highly talented individuals. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package and innovative reward programs