Senior Unix Platform System Engineer

Position: Senior Unix Platform System Engineer

Location: London, UK

Duration: Permanent

Key Responsibilities:

Overview

As a Virtualisation & Compute Unix Administrator you would be focused on build, implementation and support of Vocalink Core Services of Virtualisation & Compute platforms (Redhat, OEL, Solaris, OVM, VMware).

The role requires a focus on service to ensure that all SLA's and availability targets are met.

The role also requires thought leadership and an ability to drive IT initiatives that continually improve our efficiency, agility, performance, availability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Coordinates the building and maintaining of system and platform technologies and environments, including associated software products

Performs life cycle management for supported hardware platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades

Participates in the planning and implementation of system/platform updates to optimize performance, efficiency, and capacity

Performs holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions

Completes status reports, troubleshooting guides, and project plans to provide in-depth technical assistance to development programmers and customers

Resolves chronic complex problems, providing managerial operational support to maintain systems and platforms

May perform financial planning, forecasting, and budget tracking to reduce total cost of ownership and allocate resources efficiently

Assist 3rd line support in the analysis of root causes of all major issues, planning redesigns where appropriate.

Work in partnership with 3rd party suppliers, understanding and implementing industry best practice across our technology stack.

Experience

Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large platform system domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions

Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades

Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades.

Document and manage change to existing hardware/software platforms.

Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains

Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements

Experience performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies

Successfully served as a go-to-person to resolve and prevent platform system infrastructure issues, deriving impactful solutions

Technical and Professional Skills: -

RedHat and/or OEL - Advanced

Solaris 10 & 11- Advanced

Solaris Zones & LDOM's - Intermediate

Patching & Live upgrades - Advanced

Volume Managers, ZFS, VXFM - Advanced

Clustering experience - Advanced

Virtual Machine Management (OVM) - Advanced

VMWare - Intermediate

HCI experience (VxRail, Stack or) - Advanced

Converged experience (Exadata, Supercluster, PCA) - Advanced

Chassis/Blade based server technology - Advanced

X86 hardware - Advanced

Networking skills TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, DNS, LDAP - Advanced

Automation (Python,) - Advanced

Jumpstart - Intermediate

Satellite - Intermediate

Splunk - Basic

Qualys - Intermediate

Broad experience across ITIL Service Management disciplines.

Storage technologies (DellEMC, HP) - Intermediate

Backup technologies - Basic

Atlassian experience - Jira, Confluence - Intermediate

Agile methodology awareness (Scrum/Kanban) - Intermediate

Terraform & Ansible - Advanced

DevOps Tooling (Ansible, Git) - Advanced

Infrastructure As Code experience - Advanced

Infrastructure & Network awareness - Advanced

At least one Shell Scripting language (Bash, Bourne, Perl, C-Shell)

HSM experience - Intermediate