Unix Systems Administrator

3 days ago

Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom Vallum Associates Full time
About the Role

Vallum Associates is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Unix Systems Administrator to join our team. As a key member of our IT infrastructure team, you will be responsible for the technical delivery of projects and changes, providing technical guidance to project teams, and ensuring the smooth operation of our Unix environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Technical Delivery: Work as a Senior Unix Systems Administrator in a Global team, contributing to the technical delivery of projects and changes by providing Technical/Application guidance to project teams.
  • Subject Matter Expert: Be a subject matter expert for the Operating System and guide functional delivery teams across Global Payments Solution IT (GPS IT) for process/system improvements.
  • Project Delivery: Deliver projects, services, and kits to live on time with a minimum of issues.
  • Environment Support: Provide overall Unix platforms' support to these projects.
  • Change Management: Satisfy changes during a working week and on live production over a weekend.
  • Support and Troubleshooting: Provide 2nd and 3rd line support from time to time for break-fix issues.
  • Technical Expertise: Have a senior level of technical expertise in development engineering and scripting (ksh/bash) to produce automated, efficient, and/or self-service solutions for technical teams or end-user stakeholders to consume.
  • Communication and Collaboration: Communicate solutions, errors, status reports, and liaise at all levels of the Business.
  • Teamwork: Work as a fully engaged and contributing engineer within a team.
  • Break-Fix Support: Assist with any break-fix issues in the environment where appropriate.
  • Adaptability: On occasion, may be asked to work longer hours to complete a piece of work.
  • Work Prioritization: Be able to prioritize work between running daily changes, weekend preparation, and ongoing projects.
  • Process Improvement: Come up with ideas to make the environment more efficient, whether procedural or technical.
  • Initiatives and Projects: Identify and work on initiatives for process efficiency and service improvement projects to achieve efficiencies (Process. FTE, sustainable saves).
  • Process Improvements: Drive process improvements and cost efficiency initiatives.
  • Self-Study and Knowledge Sharing: Attempt to avoid external training by doing self-study or internal knowledge sharing for UNIX.
  • Review and Feedback: Ensure review within a team for all critical/complex deliverables.
  • Interactions and Collaborations: Interact with application teams and other infrastructure teams.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to all regulatory issues and compliance of all internal controls.
  • Client Group Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to Client Group Compliance Policies.
Requirements
  • Experience: 5 years plus of experience in UNIX infrastructure.
  • Expertise: Expert level knowledge of UNIX (AIX/Solaris/Linux).
  • Technical Knowledge: Expert level knowledge of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server (SFHA), and Veritas NetBackup Client.
  • Host-Based SAN Migrations: Strong knowledge of host-based SAN migrations.
  • SAN Configuration: Very good understanding of SAN configuration EMC/Hitachi LUNs on UNIX (AIX/Solaris/Linux) servers.
  • Shell Scripting: Ability to develop simple/complex shell scripts (e.g. Bash, Korn) as per requirements.
  • DR and Role Swap Exercises: Ability to support DR / Role swap exercises.
  • Crisis Calls and Critical Issues: Effective in dealing with Crisis calls/Critical issues for business-critical services.
  • Technical Guidance: Proven experience in technically guiding teams in a productivity/results-driven environment.
  • Relationship Building: Proven experience in managing and building relationships with business partners and customer service and stakeholders up and down the chain.
  • IT Infrastructure Support: Worked in at least two of the areas of IT Infrastructure support i.e. Production Support, Application Support & Infrastructure Support.
  • Technology Value: Should understand & have proven record of how technology adds value to the business and ultimately the end customer.
  • Industry Certifications: Should possess industry standard certifications for UNIX/Cluster Technologies.
  • ITIL Concepts: Should be well versed with ITIL concepts and more specific understanding of Service operations activities.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong technical knowledge in respective technology.
  • Troubleshooting and Analytical Skills: Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
  • Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Cultural Awareness: Working across cultures.
  • Adaptability and Positive Attitude: Open mindset and adapt to change, positive attitude, and logical thinking.
  • Independence and Proactivity: Able to work independently, under pressure, and proactively in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines.
  • Teamwork and Multi-Tasking: Team player; multi-tasking; good testing skills; organized self-starter.
  • Efficiency and Best Practices: Identify areas where efficiency can be gained.
  • Shared Delivery and Training: Suggest & implement best-in-call industry practices in the projects, as applicable.
  • Emerging Technology Trends: Implement Shared delivery in terms of understanding & training the teams on project specific technical aspects.
  • Functional Requirements and Technical Specifications: Support technology Managers in identifying emerging technology trends, constantly question, clarify from teams, and ensure that critical technology issues are surfaced and considered.
  • Problem Management and Customer Satisfaction: Understanding of functional requirements and translation of business requirements into technical specifications.
  • Crisis Calls and Problem Resolution: Participate in crisis calls as applicable.
  • Problem Identification and Resolution: Proactively identify problem situations and resolve to give maximum customer satisfaction.
  • Analytical and Problem Management Skills: Demonstrate analytical and problem management skills.
Desirable Requirements
  • Finance and Banking Industry Experience: Experience in the Finance and Banking industry would be an advantage.
  • Full Stack Engineering Skills: Full stack engineering skills e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Groovy, Jenkins, Mulesoft, and Kong API.
  • Cloud Services: Google and Amazon Cloud Services.
  • JIRA: Use of JIRA would be welcomed.
  • Automation Skills: Automation skills with a mindset to explore and exploit the technologies we could and should use safely and efficiently within the Bank.

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