Unix Systems Administrator

Job Description

A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy are looking for an experienced Unix Systems Administrator for a 6 month contract with a major banking client in the City of London (remote currently), Inside IR35As a dynamic self-starter you will leverage your skills to primarily administer and support the Banks global estate of 76K Unix virtual and bare metal OS instances. Acting as Unix subject matter expert, you will engage our business clients by responding to 3rd line escalations and / or joining incident bridge calls to triage, analyse and ultimately restore service outages. You will be passionate about what you do and enjoy deep diving into root cause analysis to establish whether process or policy necessitates change or enhancement. Being an excellent communicator, you will collaborate regularly with your global counterparts regarding technology initiatives that not only deliver business value, but additionally realize Bank targets and goals. To foster a sustainable pace that caters for changing needs, there will be a requirement to participate in a shift rota that targets either the early, middle, or later parts of the day.The Unix Global Markets and Banking Domain Operations team provide high quality, comprehensive infrastructure and application support services to business technology partners on a globally consistent basis. These services cover the automated monitoring and resolution of standard infrastructure/application events, along with an in-depth proactive assessment program that ensures the ongoing stability of core applications. The team leverages a deep understanding of applications, data and business requirements to complement both the enterprise operations and domain design and build teams in providing the highest quality infrastructure support services.Experience RequiredExcellent Administration / troubleshooting skills ( RHEL 6,7,8 / Solaris 10 ) for a financial institutionProficient at manipulating virtualized Linux deployments at an ESX layer Bare metal Red Hat Clustering technologies - RHCS / PaceMakerVeritas Filesystem / Volume Manager / Cluster Networking Principles ( TCP/IP stack / DHCP / Bonding / Teaming / Multipathing )Network Information SystemDomain name systemShell Scripting knowledgeUnderstanding of SAN / NAS Storage principles from an OS layerInfrastructure support and trouble shooting of Oracle/HP/IBM/Dell hardwareAuthentication Services - Vintella / SSSDITIL frameworks within BMC Remedy ( Incident/Problem/Known Error/Change )DesiredPacket capture / deep dive analysis - WiresharkKnowledge of Oracle Real Application Clusters ( RAC ) from a Linux OS layerFamiliarisation with alternative time adherence technologies - FSMLabs TimeKeeperPerformance/Capacity Management - BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Low Latency - RHEL tuning methodologiesAutomation - BMC BladeLogicProgramming Ansible / Python / PerlAIX 7.x Scope of duties Work against pre-determined working practices with fixed scopeEnforce policy, standards and procedureManagement activity reportsAudit reviewsDisaster failover, recovery and isolation testing Running acceptance and qualification processesIncident triage, investigation and restorationProblem root cause analysis and known error recordingCo-ordination of Event resolution in conjunction with offshore peer platform teams Facilitate warm hand off of Service Requests to platform teamsVulnerability and configuration drift management Project logistics and delivery3rd Line UNIX systems consultation, support and administrationSoftware release and change managementTeam shift :-7am - 6pm Monday to Friday Occasional Weekend Working to support infrastructure and business changes