Solaris Systems Engineer - Onsite London (6-Month Contract)

LA International; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International seeks a Solaris Consultant for a 6 month contract, onsite in London. You will administer, maintain and support Oracle Solaris 10/11 environments, with a focus on Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF and networking. The role involves provisioning, patching, security hardening, and on-call support.

Responsibilities include monitoring, backups, and coordinating deployments with application teams, plus creating runbooks and SOPs in a professional enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Oracle Solaris 10/11 environments.
• Hands-on Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF and networking expertise.
• Strong OS troubleshooting, patching, security hardening.
• Experience in enterprise production environments.
• Knowledge of shell scripting (KSH/Bash) preferred.
• Familiarity with ITIL Incident, Change and Problem Management.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support Oracle Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 environments.
• Manage Solaris Zones (Global and Non-Global) including provisioning and migration.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and security hardening.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and resolve OS-level incidents.
• Manage filesystems, storage, backups, and system recovery.
• Support legacy applications and coordinate deployments with teams.
• Create and maintain runbooks and SOPs.
• Participate in on-call support and major incident resolution.

Skills

Oracle Solaris 10/11

Solaris Zones (Global/Non-Global)

ZFS

SMF

Solaris networking

Shell scripting (KSH/Bash)

ITIL processes (Incident, Change, and

Job description

LA International seeks a Solaris Consultant for a 6 month contract, onsite in London. You will administer, maintain and support Oracle Solaris 10/11 environments, with a focus on Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF and networking. The role involves provisioning, patching, security hardening, and on-call support.

Responsibilities include monitoring, backups, and coordinating deployments with application teams, plus creating runbooks and SOPs in a professional enterprise setting.