Solaris System Administrator

**Why Kyndryl**

Kyndryl is a market leader that thinks and acts like a start-up. We design, build, manage, and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl?

We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers, and our communities. We invest heavily in you - not only through learning, training, and career development, but also through the flexible working practices and stellar benefits that help you grow and progress long-term. And we give back - from planting 90,000 trees in our first 3 months as part of our One Tree Planted initiative to the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment, Social and Governance practices embedded within everything we do, we are committed to powering human progress in an ethical, sustainable way.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**
- The major responsibilities of the Solaris Administration position encompass Service Delivery, Delivery Operations and includes:

- Should have minimum 6 years of core experience in Solaris.
- Having hands on experience on Solaris 10/11 patching.
- Experience on firmware upgraded on T5 / T7 Servers.
- Good experience and troubleshooting during hardware part replacement.
- Good understanding and troubleshooting skills on any Clusters.
- Defines, installs, and maintains midrange Solaris servers.
- Provide a technical lead / technical co-ordination role.
- Undertake the lead in proactive resolution of system related problems.
- Assist with implementation and maintenance of the business recovery plan and procedures.
- Suggests and/or implements solutions to resolve problems and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
- Interface with 3rd party support vendors for problem resolution.
- Supports the coordination of the processing environment and software distribution, upgrades and maintenance.
- Plan and coordination of work efforts and assignments of I/O subsystems and system peripherals.
- Gather information to assist in the analysis of client business requirements.
- Provide second level technical support for complex problems.
- Identification of problems related to product/service installation, update, configuration, operations, performance, or other aspects of information technology products and services (including detailed root cause analysis).
- Perform other duties as requested by management.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Be able to follow rigorous change and incident management processes.
- Be available for on call roster, cyclic maintenance, DR, high severity issue resolution periodically as part of the defined support model.

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**

Applicants must have substantial enterprise experience in the following:

- Solaris 9/10/11 (mandatory)
- VCS Cluster (mandatory)

Additional knowledge and experience in one of the following Unix / Linux flavours would be highly considered:

- SUN Solaris 8,9,10,11 (inc zones)
- OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) and OVM.
- AIX 6.1 / 7.1
- SUSE Linux
- Ansible

**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
- Strong Solaris fundamental.
- Good understanding of software upgrade/migration process.
- Knowledge of backup solutions inc. Veritas NetBackup, Omni back.
- Experience with at least one other UNIX / Linux (i.e. SUSE, AIX, RHL, OEL).

**Required Education**

Bachelor's Degree

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks (KINs) are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

**Other things to know**

**Primary Job Category**

Technical Specialist

**Role (Job Role)**

Systems Administrator

**Employment Type**

Full-Time

**Contract Type**

Regular

**Position Type**

Early Professional

**Travel Required**

No Travel

**Company**

(Y030) Kyndryl Solutions Private Limited

**Is this role a commissionable / sales incentive based position**

No