Sr SUSE Linux Administrator Consultant Job Description

Job Description:

·                    Perform software and hardware upgrades/patches on production/UAT elements

·                    Attend and mitigate potential vulnerabilities in OS level by updating packages and doing SP updates

·                    Monitoring capacity and make recommendations to improve system performance

·                    Undertake planning of maintenance activities and its downtime

·                    Prioritise and complete routine tasks without supervision

·                    Reduce downtime/outages on production elements by ensuring best practices and supported configurations are in-use

·                    Identify and apply appropriate standards during staging and production deployment

·                    Monitor and ensure deployed elements are working to required standards

·                    Investigate, troubleshoot and fix incidents as well as propose measures what will improve the efficiency of existing system and storage platforms

·                    Respond promptly to incident, investigate & provide temporary &/or permanent resolution of incidents escalated. Provide timely status updates to relevant parties, including service desk and liaising with hardware vendors

·                    Perform service request related to system/storage platforms

·                    Monitor the agreed service level, document & maintain the configuration of the system/storage; provide regular reporting to relevant parties.

·                    Flexibility and interest on learning different application like SAP and Hana Database.

Requirements:

Experienced in the following areas:

·                    Installation and upgrade of SLES12 and 15

·                    SUSE Manager rollout and administration

·                    Suse Linux housekeeping

·                    Backup and restore of OS

·                    Security vulnerability assessment and mitigation