Oracle Solaris Consultant in London

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.

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