Description
UNIX Administrator
The UNIX Team
The UNIX team comprises the following: SAN, Wintel, Network, Middleware, and DBA. We look after all the UNIX European infrastructure.
We have a mixture of physical and virtual server kit which comprises mostly HPUX and AIX (approx. 50:50 split). The estate also consists of some RedHat Linux boxes and Solaris. We have an on call support 24*7 and the candidate would be expected to join this rota.
Also there will be some out of hours work for general administration/upgrade activities. Incidents/changes/tasks are all managed with a call management system called Remedy and we follow ITIL processes in relation to change/incidents.
The Role will involve (but is not limited to) the following areas:
- Mid-level UNIX administrator to work with production services team
- Working within the Unix team which currently has 3 administrators
- This role involves supporting the Unix infrastructure in Europe
- Support for offices based in Dublin, London, Germany
- Flavours of UNIX deployed are HPUX, AIX, Red Hat and Solaris
- Opportunity to be part of a dynamic IT team in a busy working environment
The Person
- A third level computing qualification
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- The ability to work well in a team environment
- At least 3+ years UNIX administrator experience.
- Strong technical expertise in UNIX
- Evidenced communication skills with third parties (eg in meetings with management/vendors/third parties)
- Experience working in a production support role in IT environment
- The ability to take direction and also make decisions independently
- Adherence to company rules/regulations regarding incident and change process taking ITIL standards into consideration
- Good follow through to task completion
- The ability to take ownership of issues and responsibility for same
- Enthusiasm to learn new technologies
- Willingness to work out of hours on occasion
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to think outside the box
Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.