At a Glance
- Tasks: Administer and support enterprise UNIX systems, ensuring performance and security.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on innovative infrastructure solutions.
- Benefits: 33 days annual leave, life assurance, remote GP services, and company events.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a collaborative and supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical systems while developing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience with Solaris and IBM AIX, strong troubleshooting skills, and teamwork.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
The UNIX Engineer will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise UNIX platforms within customer and internal environments.
The successful candidate will have extensive hands‑on experience with Solaris and IBM AIX systems and will play a key role in ensuring the availability, security, and performance of business‑critical infrastructure.
Working as part of a highly skilled infrastructure team, you will support production environments, contribute to project delivery, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and participate in platform upgrades and lifecycle management.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support enterprise UNIX operating systems, primarily Solaris and IBM AIX.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability, taking proactive action to prevent service disruption.
- Install, configure, patch, and upgrade UNIX operating systems and associated software.
- Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure issues.
- Support business‑critical production environments while maintaining agreed service levels.
- Implement security best practices, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
- Manage storage, filesystems, logical volumes, and system resources.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, Perl, or Python where appropriate.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge articles.
- Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
- Participate in change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
- Work collaboratively with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, Cloud, and Security teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
- Participate in an on‑call support rota where required.
- Strong commercial experience administering enterprise UNIX environments.
- Oracle Solaris (Solaris 10/11)
- IBM AIX (6. x/7. x or later)
• Strong knowledge of
- LVM and filesystem administration
- Performance tuning and capacity management
- System patching and lifecycle management
- User, group, and permission management
- SSH, NFS, DNS, LDAP, and related infrastructure services
- Experience using monitoring and enterprise management tools.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Experience working within ITIL‑based support environments.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible.
- Experience with SAN storage technologies.
- Exposure to VMware or enterprise virtualisation platforms.
- Familiarity with backup technologies such as Net Backup or IBM Spectrum Protect.
- Experience working within regulated or security‑conscious environments.
- Cloud platform exposure (Azure, AWS, or OCI).
- Relevant vendor certifications for Solaris or IBM AIX.
- 33 days annual leave
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Group income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 years
- : remote GP – physiotherapy, nutritionist, and more
- Cycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes
- 6 fully expensed company events per year
- Option to donate to charity through salary
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We think you need these skills to ace Unix System Engineer in Blantyre
UNIX Administration
Solaris
IBM AIX
System Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Root Cause Analysis
Security Best Practices
