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212740 Sr Unix Administrator

Procom Services

Procom Services

Columbus, OH, USA
Posted on Aug 18, 2025

Company Description

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Job Description

  • Provide technical leadership in daily system support and operation for critical and complex production systems.
  • Perform Capacity Planning, Infrastructure Design, and Systems Administration.
  • Create robust, high availability and secure design for UNIX/Linux server infrastructure.
  • Provide 7x24 rotating Level 3 Support for Unix/Linux and storage infrastructure for various group companies.
  • Closely work with remote Unix/Linux team for day-to-day incident and service request tickets.
  • Work with hardware and 3rd vendor for system troubleshooting.
  • Interface with the clients with related to technical issue/inquiry/request.
  • Setting various policies for applications and infrastructure - patching schedules, deployment of releases, testing and system readiness.
  • Manage HP/UX environment in Production/Testing/Development environments.
  • Configure and manage Virtual Server environments, Storage infrastructure and DR installations.
  • Administer Systems Monitoring; Troubleshoot SW/HW Issues Methodically.
  • Process knowledge of Configuration management & Change control.
  • Create and update technical documentations (system configuration and operation).

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years experience as a RedHat Linux System Administrator
  • Strong background in HP-UX 10/11
  • Strong background in Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 and RHEL 4.x/5.x
  • Strong Background in AIX
  • Hands-on experience with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, DiskSuite and LVM
  • Strong experiences in SAN devices (EMC Celerra/CLARiiON, NetApp Filer, Brocade switch)
  • Hands-on experience in NetBackup backup software
  • Experience of jumpstart and kickstart implementation
  • Requires excellent communication skills and ability to be available after-hours
  • Certifications in Solaris, Linux and/or SAN are preferred.
  • BS in (Computer) Science/Engineering or equivalent IT work experience.
  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP, LDAP, DNS, NIS and SMTP.
  • Proficiency in NAS and Storage Area networking as well as Backup & Recovery administration.
  • Experiences of DNS, Apache, Sendmail, Bind, LDAP, and ProofPoint.
  • Experience in data center or network operations with HA (high availability) and/ or 24X7 service level.
  • Must have strong experience with Disaster Recovery solutions.

Additional Information

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO WORK WITH CANDIDATES ON H1B VISAS OR CANDIDATES REPRESENTED BY THIRD PARTIES.