Unix Infrastructure Specialist

1 week ago

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

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Unix Systems Administrator to join our team at Vallum Associates Limited. 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.
  • Change Management: Perform changes in the GPS Unix environment on both weekdays and weekends, the latter via a rota.
  • Unix Platforms Support: Provide overall Unix platforms' support to these projects.
  • Change Satisfaction: Satisfy changes during a working week and on live production over a weekend.
  • Break-Fix Support: 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: 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 Assistance: Assist with any break-fix issues in the environment where appropriate.
  • Extended Working Hours: 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: 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: 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: Interact with application teams and other infrastructure teams.
  • Process Enhancements: Suggest process enhancements.
  • Enterprise Experience: Have experience of working in an enterprise environment and be ITIL aware.
  • 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
  • Language: Fluent in English.
  • Experience: 5 years plus of experience in UNIX infrastructure.
  • UNIX Expertise: Expert level knowledge of UNIX (AIX/Solaris/Linux).
  • Veritas Expertise: 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/Role Swap Exercises: Ability to support DR/Role swap exercises.
  • Crisis Calls: Effective in dealing with crisis calls/critical issues for business-critical services.
  • Team Guidance: Proven experience in technically guiding teams in a productivity/results-driven environment.
  • Relationship Management: 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.
  • Business Value: Should understand and have a proven record of how technology adds value to the business and ultimately the end customer.
  • 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: Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
  • Communication: Communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Cultural Awareness: Working across cultures.
  • Adaptability: Open mindset and adapt to change, positive attitude, and logical thinking.
  • Independence: Able to work independently, under pressure, and proactively in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines.
  • Teamwork: Team player; multi-tasking; good testing skills; organized self-starter.
  • Efficiency Gains: Identify areas where efficiency can be gained.
  • Best Practices: Suggest and implement best-in-class industry practices in the projects, as applicable.
  • Shared Delivery: Implement shared delivery in terms of understanding and training the teams on project-specific technical aspects.
  • Emerging Trends: Support technology Managers in identifying emerging technology trends, constantly question, clarify from teams, and ensure that critical technology issues are surfaced and considered.
  • Functional Requirements: Understanding of functional requirements and translation of business requirements into technical specifications.
  • Crisis Calls: Participate in crisis calls as applicable.
  • Problem Resolution: Proactively identify problem situations and resolve to give maximum customer satisfaction.
  • Analytical Skills: Demonstrate analytical and problem management skills.
Desirable Requirements
  • Finance and Banking Experience: Experience in the Finance and Banking industry would be an advantage.
  • Full Stack Engineering: Full stack engineering skills e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Groovy, Jenkins, Mulesoft, and Kong API.
  • Cloud Services: Google and Amazon Cloud Services.
  • Programming Languages: Python, Perl, Groovy, C.
  • 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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