Lead Solaris System Administrator

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Solaris System Administrator to head the design, administration, and optimization of our enterprise Oracle Solaris environment. The role involves ensuring high availability, performance, and security of critical systems while guiding a team of administrators.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the administration, maintenance, and support of Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments.
• Manage installation, configuration, patching, upgrading, and lifecycle of Solaris servers.
• Administer Solaris Zones, LDOMs, ZFS file systems, storage, and virtualization technologies.
• Monitor system health, capacity, and performance, proactively resolving issues.
• Implement security controls, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and compliance.
• Develop automation scripts using Shell, Python, or Perl.
• Lead troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis of complex infrastructure incidents.
• Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Collaborate with network, database, cloud, security, and application teams on projects and upgrades.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and escalation support to the admin team.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 8+ years of Solaris administration experience.
• 3+ years in a senior or lead infrastructure support role.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Solaris certification preferred.
• Extensive experience with mission‑critical enterprise systems and high‑availability solutions.

Required skills

• Oracle Solaris (10 & 11)
• Solaris Zones
• LDOM (Logical Domains)
• ZFS file systems
• Shell scripting
• Python
• Perl
• Backup and disaster recovery technologies
• High‑availability and HA clustering
• Virtualization and storage management