Senior Systems Engineer, Red Hat Linux

Description

• Maintaining, monitoring and enhancing the Linux Server environment


• Contributing towards organisational strategic projects


• Providing technical leadership to the Linux team


• Providing third-level support to the Linux Server owners to assist with identifying and resolving problems and performance issues


• Developing, maintaining and optimising scripts that automate operational tasks


• Working closely with the Customer Service, and Business Relationship Management teams on incident and problem management


• Structuring and organizing operational workload and support management with the prioritisation of operational tasks


• Work according to the BIS implementation of the ITIL processes, in particular change management, configuration management, release management and incident management


• Collaboration with the corporate security department to ensure the environment is kept up-to-date, delivered and operated according to security best practises


• Supervising the day-to-day activities of the external contractors working within the team


• Software asset management of the related software components, ensuring that the obligations are met with respect to software asset management and vulnerability management policies

• Proven in-depth knowledge and experience with Red Hat Linux server technologies (ideally with Red Hat certifications), Satellite Server, Ansible, Red Hat Openshift, monitoring technologies and backup systems (preferably Networker)


• Experience with managing infrastructure to support Oracle relational Databases and the Cloudera BigData platform is desirable


• A general knowledge of VMWare, storage technologies and networking principles such segmentation, firewalls and infrastructure is also desirable

• Broad understanding of IT best practice and its application in a business environment


• Ability to follow change management procedures and processes


• Sound understanding of latest trends in technology


• Customer and vendor management


• Ability to negotiate effectively


• Practical experience of participating in IT initiatives, in particular security-driven initiatives


• Formal project / program management experience


• Excellent customer management skills


• Practical presentation and communication skills, able to present points clearly and convincingly


• Ability to demonstrate initiative, drive and enthusiasm


• Ability to actively work supporting culture change initiatives and tackle cultural barriers


• Good overall knowledge of the dependencies and how they interact, e.g. with regard to the technologies involved in core server, networking, database and application technologies


• Ability to provide third-level support and design input in an enterprise environment


• Readiness to work outside normal working hours during service windows, and to provide on-call cover for evenings and weekend (one week in five)


• Ability to apply DevOps practices to organise operations and new capability delivery in a way that meets the Bank’s resilience requirements and innovation agenda

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