UNIX Administrator

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:The Solaris System Administrator will be responsible for administering lab test & development environment running Solaris 9 or greater. The administrator will work very closely with Software Development, and Support groups to meet business and technical demands. This individual will also provide support to our high availability production environment in our remote data center as needed. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: • Perform hardware and software installations, upgrades, and maintenance, patch administration, kernel modification/upgrades, file system management, performance and security analysis, and network configuration/tuning. • Coordinate and perform preventive system maintenance; Set up day-to-day maintenance of development and, at times, production systems. Perform resource monitoring, performance tuning, and scaling of infrastructure as needed. • Work with development initiatives to proactively prepare server builds and input on design/implementation considerations. • Work with application developers on the Solaris platform for installation and maintenance in both development and production environments. • Document Solaris configurations and procedures, participate in environment planning meetings, and communicate environment requirements to management. • Capable of extracting information and resources from team members, and from online resources to further enhance and provide support of services to team members and the Company. Must be well rounded and current in system administration, networking, supporting, developing, programming and end-user support is critical to functioning in this position. • Cluster configuration and maintenance, shell scripting, performance tuning, hardening and support in high availability on and off-site environments.  PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS: • 2+ years experience with Solaris (9 or greater) System Administration • Enterprise Technologies (NFS, jumpstart procedures, NIS/NIS+, clustering, performance tuning, mail, security) • Package management, scripting with UNIX shell scripts and standard UNIX utilities for automation of administrative tasks. • Have specific experience with Web(Apache), J2EE. • Capable of supporting assistance with database support (e.g.: MySQL, Oracle, etc.) • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP internetworking - DNS,  VPN, FTP, SSH, HTTP, SMTP, firewalls (iptables). • Have excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills with little supervision (network, hardware, OS, performance related problems). • Ability to successfully handle the completion of multiple concurrent assignments under pressure and interface with vendors or related support mechanisms for escalation/resolution purposes. • Experience with Sun Enterprise class servers and Sun storage arrays a plus.• Experience with Commvault Enterprise backups a plus Mediacom is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V At MEDIACOM, we understand how valuable our employees are to the success of our business.  We are proud to reward them with a competitive wage and excellent benefit package which includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, 401K, Employee Stock Purchase, discounted services. Mediacom is an Equal Opportunity Employer