Solaris Administrator - 6 Months | London, UK - Inside IR35

Hamilton Barnes; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Solaris Administrator in London to support and maintain Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments, including legacy applications. This is an office-based role, five days a week on the customer's site, for a 6-month contract.

You will administer Solaris systems, manage zones, storage, backups, and runbooks, and contribute to incident resolution while collaborating with application teams and operations. This is Inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 experience.
• Experience with Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF and Solaris networking.
• OS troubleshooting, performance tuning, patch management and security.
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments.
• ItIL processes: incident, change and problem management.
• Shell scripting with KSH/Bash advantageous.
• Legacy infrastructure experience desirable.
• Storage, backup and virtualisation exposure.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and support Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments.
• Provision, migrate and troubleshoot Solaris Zones (global and non-global).
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade and harden Solaris servers.
• Monitor performance, capacity and availability; resolve OS-level incidents.
• Manage filesystems, storage, users, backups and system recovery.
• Support legacy applications on Solaris and collaborate with app teams.
• Maintain documentation, SOPs and runbooks.
• Join the on-call rota and help resolve major incidents.

Skills

Solaris 10/11 experience

Solaris Zones

ZFS

SMF

Solaris networking

Boot prompts

OS troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Patch management

System security

Enterprise production environments

ITIL processes

Shell scripting

KSH scripting

Bash scripting

Legacy infrastructure

Storage

Backup

Virtualisation

Job description

Solaris Administrator - 6 months | London, UK - Inside IR35

We are looking for an experienced Solaris Administrator to support and maintain Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments, including Legacy applications, for a leading technology services organisation. The role is office-based in London, 5 days per week on the customer's site, on a 6-month contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain and support Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments
• Provision, migrate and troubleshoot Solaris Zones (global and non-global)
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade and harden Solaris Servers
• Monitor performance, capacity and availability, and resolve OS-level incidents and problems
• Manage filesystems, storage, users, backups and system recovery
• Support Legacy applications on Solaris and work with application teams on deployments
• Maintain documentation, SOPs and runbooks
• Join the on-call rota and help resolve major incidents

What You Will Ideally Bring:

• Strong hands-on Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 experience
• Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF, Solaris networking and boot prompts
• OS troubleshooting, performance tuning, patch management and system security
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments
• ITIL processes: incident, change and problem management
• Shell Scripting (KSH/Bash) (advantageous)
• Legacy infrastructure experience (desirable)
• Storage, backup and virtualisation exposure (desirable)

Contract Details:

• Duration: 6 months
• Rate: £425 per day - Inside IR35
• Location: London Office
• Start Date: ASAP