Engineer, Unix

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). Apart from that OS patching is a key assigned to UNIX team. “Engineer, Unix” role is expected to handle administering and managing of Solaris/Linux operating systems, OS patching, supporting virtualisation, containers and clustering. Hardware types managed by the team are Oracle SPARC and HP Blade servers.

Responsibilities

• Have to perform Unix patching tasks as assigned by the management. Must perform below tasks related to patching.
  • Verify patch availability and instructions as documented in internal wiki
  • Communicate with relevant as required parties before/after patching
  • Create change requests and following up on approvals. Close the same post successful patching.
  • Perform pre-checks and get issues fixed before planned patching window
  • Communicate with application teams on patching schedule
  • Coordinate with other teams such as Storage team for patching pre requisites verification
  • Perform OS patching and post checks
  • Update SharePoint data of patching status and maintain internal wiki documentation up to date.
• Will need to manage assigned Unix system administration tasks within agreed SLA’s.
• 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.
• Must  work in the assigned shift in providing 24x7 service. Will have to work on Staurday/Sunday as per the weekly rota.
• Identify and action on the opportunities for service improvement and service level targets.

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

• 2-5 years of experience

Educational qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

Key Skills

Required technical skills

• RedHat Linux (version 5, 6 and 7)
• Oracle Solaris 10 and 11

• Veritas Cluster and storage foundation

• VMware
• SAN experience on RedHat and Solaris (HDS/HP)
• Shell scripting (bash)

Desirable technical skills

• Veritas netback overview

• LDAP (RedHat Directory Services)

• RPM packaging experience

• VMware SRM
• HP Blade
• Perl
• Python
• Satellite
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Blade Logic

Soft Skills

Skill

Level

1.English Language Skills

a) Writing/Reading

Good level

b) Listening/Speaking

Good level

2. Communications

a) Hosting Conference Calls

Good level

b) Customer Service

Reasonable Level

3. Management

a) Line Management

Basic Level

b) Project/Change management

Good/Reasonable Level

c) Release Management

Reasonable Level

d) Risk Management

Reasonable Level

4. Technical

a)Application maintenance and support

Reasonable Level

b)Problem Solving

Good level

c)Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Reasonable Level

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