Solaris System Engineer
Solaris System Engineer
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26-07-2025
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
26-07-2025
Job Description
Reference: GTG008234-CVE-1
Our client based in Randburg is urgently looking for a Solaris System Engineer to join their team
12 months renewable contract
Onsite
Our client based in Randburg is urgently looking for a Solaris System Engineer to join their team
12 months renewable contract
Onsite
Duties & Responsibilities
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
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- Highly recommended:
- Proven experience as a Solaris System Engineer (5 years preferred).
- Proven experience with Veritas Infoscale.
- Enterprise class hardware certifications/courses
- Additional beneficial certifications:
- ITIL Foundation (for understanding IT service management)
- Proficiency in Unix operating systems (Solaris AIX HP-UX and Linux variants).
- Strong command-line and shell scripting skills (Bash Korn Perl Python).
- Strong Web Development Skills using modern Web Technologies (HTML CSS JS etc)
- Experience with system performance tuning patching and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of file systems (ZFS VXFS ASM) and volume management.
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible Puppet Chef etc).
- Understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP DNS NFS SSH Rsync).
- Experience with backup and recovery tools (Netbackup HUR ZFS Veritas etc)
- Basic RDBMS skill (Oracle MySQL)
- Knowledge of virtualization and containerization (Zones LDOMs VMware Docker).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (Nagios AppDynamics Prometheus).
- Good understanding of Web Servers IIS and Web Site setup and configuration (advantageous)
- Experience in Cross Platform integration with other Operating Systems and Technologies (Windows Linux)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle hardware (SPARC servers etc.).
- Exposure to other Unix/Linux systems (AIX RHEL etc.).
- Knowledge of ITIL practices and change management processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Install configure and maintain Solaris operating systems (Solaris 11) and associated hardware.
- Gather and address technical and design requirements.
- Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
- Monitor system performance identify bottlenecks and implement performance tuning.
- Manage system security including patching hardening and compliance with security policies.
- Perform system backups disaster recovery planning and regular testing of recovery procedures.
- Automate routine tasks using shell scripts and configuration management tools.
- Maintain and troubleshoot Solaris service domains Zones ZFS file systems Veritas InfoScale and SMF services.
- Provide 24/7 support for production systems
- Collaborate with application network and database teams to support deployments and resolve issues.
- Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations procedures incident and root cause analysis reports.
- Plan and execute system upgrades migrations and hardware refreshes.
- Understand storage devices and SAN/NAS environments integrated with Solaris systems.
- Monitor and respond to alerts from system monitoring tools (e.g. Nagios AppDynamics or similar).
- Analyze system trends and usage metrics to support capacity planning and strategic decision-making.
- Generate regular system health and performance reports for IT leadership and stakeholders.
- Create dashboards and visualizations to present system uptime resource utilization and SLA compliance.
- Participate in audits and ensure compliance with internal and external IT standard
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