Principal UNIXLinux System Administrator Business Availability & Disaster Recovery

What success looks like in this role:

U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.

The Principal Business Availability & Disaster Recovery Engineer leads the design validation and improvement of high-availability and disaster recovery solutions across the customers Unix/Linux/AIX infrastructure. The role splits its time between the Business Availability team which designs highly available Linux and Unix infrastructure and reduces reliance on planned maintenance windows and the Disaster Recovery practice which validates that Linux and Unix solutions meet recovery objectives. Both halves rest on a strong background in Linux Unix and AIX systems administration which the role also draws on directly for hands-on assessment troubleshooting and remediation of availability and recovery issues.

• Leads Business Availability and Disaster Recovery strategy for Unix/Linux/AIX systems across the account.

• Ensures availability and DR strategy align with corporate business requirements and objectives.

• Applies extensive knowledge of business availability requirements to systems design development and support.
• Translates long-term business requirements into systems and infrastructure design decisions.

• Assesses and documents current-state Linux and Unix solution architectures.

• Designs and recommends high-availability Linux and Unix solutions including Red Hat clustering KVM and AIX environments aligned with business and technical requirements.

• Develops migration strategies implementation roadmaps and associated bills of materials for Linux and Unix environments.

• Ensures proposed Linux/Unix solutions integrate effectively with the Disaster Recovery practice.

• Collaborates with account teams to gather operational knowledge and support transition planning.

• Leads design reviews to validate that Linux and Unix solutions meet recovery objectives.

• Owns DR documentation runbooks and supporting artifacts for Linux and Unix systems.

• Coordinates and executes planned DR testing activities.

• Monitors and evaluates DR infrastructure capacity for Linux and Unix systems across on-premises and cloud environments.

• Provides systems administration support (installation maintenance and troubleshooting of hardware software applications and connectivity) for Linux and Unix environments across multiple locations as needed to support availability and DR objectives.

• Advises on programming tools database systems and networks relevant to Linux/Unix environments.

• Coordinates with clients and stakeholders on recommendations to address availability and reliability issues.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore to conform to U.S. export control regulations applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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