Experis IT is currently looking for a Unix Administrator in Pleasanton, CA. Unix Administrator 6 months + possible extensions Pleasanton, CA Unix administrator that will involve in day-to-day administration & monitoring of Solaris & AIX Operating Systems on enterprise servers. Responsibilities: Maintain 24x7 system availability of the Commercial Card PaymentNet Platforms. Support rotational production support on-call duties, including but not limit to: - Solaris/AIX System Administration: acknowledge, troubling shoot, and resolve Peregrine tickets; perform root cause analysis; install OS patches, packages, and hot fixes; hardware and software upgrades; backup; disk/cpu/memory monitoring; performance tuning; capacity planning; system integration; and other on-demand requests. - Application Support: daily code deployment and batch job support. Work with application developers, project managers, and application production support staff to identify and solve applications related issues. If necessary, steer others to follow the UNIX security best practices. - Design & Architecture: Work with architects and lead engineer for platform design projects. Recommend and prepare system improvement roadmaps, take guidance wherever necessary. Skills Required: Minimum 5 years of hands-on Solaris 10 and/or AIX 5.3/6.1 production support experience in a medium to large company, with good knowledge of UNIX server virtualization internals Week night and weekend work for system maintenance and requires to carry a pager 24/7 Customer focused team player with pristine integrity