Senior UNIX/Linux Server Engineer

University of California - San Francisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) seeks a Senior Server Administrator to manage on-premises and virtual servers, ensuring stability, security, and 24x7 reliability for the UCSF IT environment.

Responsibilities include UNIX/AIX/Linux management, hypervisor operations, automation, disaster recovery planning, and collaboration with platform services and stakeholders across the university.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/engineering or related field.
• 5 years of enterprise server administration with IBM AIX on POWER.
• 3 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in enterprise environments.
• 3 years of high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery for mission-critical apps.
• 3 years of UNIX virtualization (PowerVM, logical partitioning).
• 3 years of OS migrations or platform modernization.
• 3 years of automation tooling (Ansible, etc).
• Advanced knowledge of IBM AIX and VIOS/LPAR concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of RHEL administration and hardening.
• Experience with PowerHA or Linux HA solutions.
• Ability to integrate UNIX/Linux with enterprise storage.
• Experience with SFTP and MFT frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Oversees installation, configuration and updates of server/hypervisor software.
• Leads deployment of new servers, OS config, network, storage and security.
• Monitors health and performance; uses monitoring tools.
• Performs patches, tuning, backups, and recoveries.
• Plans maintenance, technical governance, and improvements; communicates with stakeholders.
• Collaborates with vendor partners to deliver high-quality server services.
• Documents infrastructure; trains and mentors junior staff.
• Engages in 24x7 incident response as needed.
• Develops disaster recovery plans and tests; leads recovery when needed.
• Primary technical focus on UNIX/AIX/Linux.

Skills

Unix/Linux administration

AIX (IBM POWER)

PowerVM/LPAR

RHEL administration

Disaster recovery planning

Automation frameworks (Ansible)

Systems monitoring

Security hardening

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PowerHA

GoAnywhere

Terraform

Ansible

VIOS

Live Partition Mobility

SFTP/MFT tooling

Job description

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) seeks a Senior Server Administrator to manage on-premises and virtual servers, ensuring stability, security, and 24x7 reliability for the UCSF IT environment.

Responsibilities include UNIX/AIX/Linux management, hypervisor operations, automation, disaster recovery planning, and collaboration with platform services and stakeholders across the university.