Senior Oracle Solaris Engineer

Location: Doha, Qatar (On-site)
Nationality: Any
Experience: 8-5 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time

KalSoft is looking for an experienced Senior Oracle Solaris Engineer to operate, secure, and modernize Oracle Solaris and SPARC environments supporting critical government systems. The role covers day-to-day administration, patching, compliance, and leading upgrade or migration projects for environments approaching support deadlines.

• Administer Oracle Solaris 10, 11.3, and 11.4 environments, including SRU patching and lifecycle management
• Manage SPARC infrastructure, including T/M-series servers, Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms), ILOM, and firmware
• Configure and support Solaris Zones, Kernel Zones, ZFS storage, SMF services, and IPS packaging
• Operate high-availability clusters using Oracle Solaris Cluster or Veritas InfoScale and support Oracle Database workloads
• Assess end-of-support exposure and lead upgrades to Solaris 11.4 or migrations to Oracle Linux / RHEL
• Harden systems against the NIA Standard and client security baselines, and remediate audit and vulnerability findings
• Automate routine operations using Shell, Python, and Ansible, while maintaining runbooks and disaster recovery procedures
• Provide L3 incident and problem management, including on-call support for critical systems

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Solaris administration experience in production enterprise environments
• Strong experience with SPARC hardware and virtualization (LDoms)
• Deep knowledge of ZFS, Zones, SMF, DTrace, and Solaris networking
• Experience with clustering and disaster recovery for business-critical workloads
• Proven experience delivering at least one Solaris upgrade or Solaris-to-Linux migration project
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in enterprise production environments supporting critical systems

• Oracle Certified Associate / Professional – Oracle Solaris certification
• RHEL (RHCSA/RHCE) or Oracle Linux certification
• Experience with Oracle Database on SPARC and Oracle Exadata/SuperCluster
• Experience in telecom or banking back-office environments in the GCC