Senior Unix Administrator

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We’re the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations.

Job Summary: To manage, maintain and support Cubic’s customers test and production systems on Solaris and Linux platforms.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintaining an estate of Solaris and Linux servers running mission critical customer applications.
• Systems Administration of Solaris and Linux systems.
• Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of Solaris and Linux systems.
• Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of backup, archive and restore using tools such as Veritas Netbackup.
• Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of SAN systems, disk layout and configurations.
• Disaster recovery and Business Continuity design, planning and testing.
• Provide input to bids and proposals and obtain quotes from suppliers to be used as input for bids.
• Produce detailed estimates and technical specifications for proposals and budgeting purposes.
• Perform benchmarking of applications on Solaris and Linux based systems.
• Perform day to day system administration (such as user creation, disk configuration, troubleshooting, etc…).
• Storage management using tools such as ZFS or LVM.
• Providing 3rd line support, including out of hours support, to critical incidents and participation in on-call IT support rota.
• Analyze and troubleshoot production faults and determine the most effective course as a subject matter expert in an expedited manner.
• Work to ITIL best practice service support and change management processes.
• Providing support to the application support teams and DBAs.
• Implementing server hardening standards as advised by Information Security team.
• Carry out patching of servers in both test and production environments, to ensure that security vulnerabilities are fixed.
• Assemble server hardware when required.
• Maintain register of IT assets.
• Comply with Cubic's values and adherence to all company policy and procedures.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Skills knowledge and experience:

• Essential relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration.
• Ideally relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in Red Hat Logical Volume Manager, Foreman Katello, SAN Storage, Fibre channel networks/zoning, Backup Systems - EMC Data Domain, Unix Bourne & Korn Shell Scripting, Perl, AWK, Ansible.

Education and qualifications:

• Essential: A pass in GCSE Mathematics and English Language or equivalent qualification. Formal Unix administration training.
• Desirable: Red Hat Certified System Administrator or a Red Hat Certified Engineer. A university degree, or equivalent qualification, in a numerate subject (e.g. Computer Science, maths, engineering, natural science).

Personal Qualities:

• Committed to deliver a high level of customer service to clients including meeting contract terms and SLA’s.
• Must be able to be flexible in relation to working hours and location.
• Ability to work non-standard hours for planned maintenance events.
• Written and spoken English of high quality, with good communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work alone and under pressure.
• A self-motivated and proactive individual able to work with minimal supervision.
• Attention to detail and adherence to procedures.
• Possessing a methodical and structured approach to analysing production issues.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability and willingness to learn on the job.
• Proven ability to work in a team.
• Ability and willingness to knowledge share with colleagues.

Candidate will be required to complete a disclosure and barring service check. Physically able to undertake the manual handling requirements of the role. Hold a driving licence and have relevant insurance cover (business insurance) and own car for travelling to and from data centres and Cubic sites.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.