• Unix Systems Administrator for a DevOps infrastructure delivery role

configuring, delivering and supporting Linux and some Solaris based server environments and services.

• Work across one or more application development DevOps ‘pods’ to consume and deploy centrally provided services from Distributed Compute.

• Responsible for implementation of new technologies and the on-going support of hardware and software solutions across both live and non-live environments.

• Deliver and provide technical support for ITID technologies while conforming to high quality standards and best practices, maintaining and improving SLA’s, and ensuring compliance to policies at all times.

• Actively participate to achieve organisation objectives for efficiency. Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work to obtain automation on deliveries thereby reducing repetitive and standardised tasks/processes.

• Advise on Unix/Linux design, development and best practice for Distributed Compute, throughout project lifecycles from build through to ITSA and implementation processes.

• Write Linux / UNIX scripts to automate and streamline BAU tasks. Building automation capabilities to support the execution of operational activities.

• Draft and maintain standards and procedures for service component capacity management. Ensures the correct implementation of standards and procedures.

• Pro-actively review information in conjunction with service level agreements to identify any capacity issues and specify any required changes. Work with application teams to agree and implement short and medium term modifications to demand.

• Asses, analyse, develop, document and implement changes based on requests for change. Understanding of functional requirements and translation of business requirements into technical specifications

• Provide troubleshooting support in incident and perform root cause analysis to prevent problems happening. Appropriate measures are taken to improve and sustain high quality and prevent recurrence.

• Provide consultancy, guidance and collaborate with other infrastructure, application, support and engineering teams.

• Proficiency in Linux server admin skills (i.e. RHEL), 6-10 years’ experience is a must. SLES, Solaris x86 & SPARC is desirable. Should possess industry standard certifications for UNIX domain.

• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and architecture, including knowledge of volume managers, multipathing and kernel parameter tuning.

• Demonstrable experience of scripting (shell / perl / python) with automation skills.

• Excellent knowledge and troubleshooting of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required.

• Strong infrastructure background with experience with IBM and HP x86 hardware and virtualisation platforms (VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V).

• Knowledge of storage infrastructure with experience of configuring filesystems on NAS storage and EMC SAN solutions, both standalone and clustered, including replication.

• Knowledge of network infrastructure (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN, GSS, F5, VIPs, Firewalls).

• Significant experience of working in a major enterprise environment and or experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services.

• Experience of DevOps tools and configuration management (Ansible / Puppet / Chef).

Nice to have:

• Operational effectiveness – experience of delivering solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards.

• Should be well versed with ITIL concepts and more specific understanding of Service operations activities.

• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.

• Experience working within an agile environment.

• Highly motivated with a positive and proactive attitude.