Infrastructure Linux Roles
The Bank has a requirement for an experienced Linux Admins/Engineers to join Digital Platforms which is involved in the standards, development and maintenance of a number of systems across the organisation. The resource would work on a mixture of BAU / Continuous Improvement works.
The Bank has a requirement for an experienced Linux Admins/Engineers to join Digital Platforms which is involved in the standards, development and maintenance of a number of systems across the organisation. The resource would work on a mixture of BAU / Continuous Improvement works.
The Linux Engineer will be involved in the following activities, amongst others:
- Provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8 to 10) systems in both physical and virtual environments
- In-Situ upgrading of RHEL servers using LEAPP upgrade tool
- Development of scripts for automated configuration management, monitoring, batch and deployment activities
- Provide recommendations for improvements to current delivery and operational processes and procedures
- Advise project managers on Linux-related technical and delivery matters
Essential Skills/Competencies
- Previous experience in a technical position within Linux platform support and/or delivery
- Familiarity with request, problem and project management processes and tools
- Detail oriented, process driven, highly innovative mindset, with deeply engrained sense of ownership for the projects delivered
- Proven track record of working well under pressure and thinking clearly in challenging situations in a logical manner
- Proven track record of being flexible in approach and inventive in order to deliver the right outcomes
- Strong customer focus and an excellent ability to manage customer relationships and understand requirements and expectations
- Adept at stakeholder communications, from senior level to domain-wide engagement events
- A broad and deep understanding of best practice in applying appropriate processes, technologies, and resources to deliver a high quality solutions
- Experienced in managing risk, compliance, audit and security obligations, including implementation of disaster recovery and business continuity procedures
Technical Skills & Requirements
Essential
- Experience of managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux production systems (RHEL 7 through to 10)
- Experience of using scripting to automate tasks
- Planning and prioritising of project delivery activities
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with virtualisation technologies (Linux under VMWare)
- Experience of working within the ITIL framework
- Experience of managing systems with RHN satellite
Desirable
- Recent experience with JBoss
- Linux performance tuning skills
- Experience with Linux failover clustering
- Experience of Kerberos in regards to securing Linux applications and AD integration.
- Experience of Cisco UCS hardware.
- Experience in managing third party engineers
- Experience in resource and workload management
- Service-orientated customer facing skills
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and execution
- Proven skills in aligning IT with organisational drivers
- Industry awareness to identify improvement opportunities and implement them across
- the services and processes incorporated within the domain
- General knowledge of all areas of IT application and infrastructure
- Detailed understanding of processes and systems within the domain of expertise
- Knowledge of Puppet or similar configuration management tools
- Knowledge of ‘big data’ platforms, e.g. Horton Works, Hadoop etc.
