At least 7 years of experience administering, monitoring and managing Solaris and Red-HAT environments.

6+ years of experience troubleshooting and tuning Linux systems down to the kernel level.

At least 3-5 years of experience with performance management using tools such as BMC Patrol & Enterprise Performance Assurance. Capacity Planning skills with be a plus.

Over 3 years of experience automating activities using Perl and Shell scripting is a necessity.

Demonstrable experience with the administration or setup of Oracle/Sybase is a plus.

Demonstrable experience administering, setting-up or participating in initiatives with application servers such as JBoss, Weblogic and Websphere is a plus.

Demonstrable skills writing best-practice documentation and solution documents are a necessity.

Demonstrable leadership skills such as managing time, managing meetings and verbal communication skills are a must.