Senior Oracle Solaris Engineer

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

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.