Senior Specialist, Unix

Role Profile

The Unix Team is responsible for the administration and support of the operating systems installed on all infrastructures and technologies that use UNIX and Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris). Senior specialist role is expected to take a lead role in administering and managing all Unix OS instances, directly attached storage infrastructure, supporting virtualization, containers and clustering. Hardware types managed by the team are Oracle SPARC , DELL and HP Blade Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Need to manage incidents, changes, configurations within the agreed SLA and OLAs. Ensure systems are documented in UNIX knowledge base (wiki) to an appropriate standard. Will also need to involve in Project and Disaster recovery.
• On going communications with stakeholders including third parties, regarding incidents, changes and other tasks and their progress. These must be both timely and accurate.
• Will need to ensure that accepted procedures are adhered to and metrics are captured.
• On going communications with change raisers, management, technicians including third parties, regarding change requests and their progress.
• Perform custodian roles assigned by the tower lead
• Must work in the assigned shift in providing 24x7 service
• Has to take part in Saturday shift and on-call support during the weekends as per the rota
• Identify and action on the opportunities for service improvement and service level targets.
• Participate on the Automation initiatives.
  
  

Key Behaviors

• Must be a quick learner and strives to understand the root cause of issues
• Must be able to carry out assigned tasks with minimum supervision
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to work within a team
• Must maintain good working relationships with the stakeholders
• Applies judgment to assess the relative importance of assigned tasks and prioritizes effectively
• Demonstrate and practice adherence to internal controls and standards in data management, and document management and production
  
  

Experience

• 11 - 13 Yrs and above
• Educational qualifications
• Bachelor's degree
  
  

Key Skills

Required technical skills

• RedHat Linux (version 6, 7 and 8)
• Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 (preferred)
• Logical Domain / Zones (preferred)
• HP UX/AIX
• Veritas Cluster and storage foundation (preferred)
• VMware
• SAN experience on RedHat and Solaris (HDS/HP) (preferred)
• Shell scripting (bash)
• UNIX Automation skills
  
  

Desirable Technical Skills

• Veritas netback overview
• LDAP (RedHat Directory Services)
• RPM packaging experience
• VMware SRM
• HP/Dell Blade
• Perl
• Python
  
  

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Manages resource within the team and allocates work effectively
• Assists in the management of vendor and software evaluation and selection
• Ensures processes are followed and team complies with department policies
• Reviews technical architecture, processes, procedures and suppliers to ensure that all aspects of the service are provided in an efficient manner
• Recommends how processes can be improved
• Contributes to design and deployment of suitable platforms for present / future architectures
• Supports and assists internal IT and business projects at all stages from architecture through to production implementation.
• Supports learning and development plans for teams and individuals.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in an IT related discipline
• Significant experience in Architecture / Engineering
• Previous experience in technology based roles
• Previous people management experience.
  
  

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Career Stage:

Senior Associate

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