Solaris Consultant Location: London, UK
Contract: 6 months
Working Pattern: Office-based, 5 days per week
An experienced Solaris Consultant is needed to maintain and support enterprise infrastructure running Oracle Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. This is a hands-on infrastructure role focused on platform stability, operational support and the reliable running of production systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain and troubleshoot Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 environments.
- Manage Solaris Global and Non-Global Zones, including provisioning, migration and issue resolution.
- Perform server installations, configuration, patching, upgrades and security hardening.
- Monitor system performance, capacity and availability, resolving operating system incidents.
- Manage ZFS filesystems, storage, user administration, backups and recovery.
- Support legacy applications and coordinate with application teams during deployments.
- Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures and runbooks.
- Contribute to major incident resolution and on-call support when required.
Key Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.
- Technical knowledge of Solaris Zones, ZFS, SMF, networking and boot prompts.
- Operating system troubleshooting, performance tuning and patch management.
- Enterprise production support and ITIL Incident, Change and Problem Management.
- KSH/Bash shell scripting is advantageous.
This contract offers the opportunity to apply specialist Solaris expertise within an enterprise infrastructure environment.