UNIX (AIX) & Linux Solution Design and Implementation Engineer

Grain Slovakia s.r.o.

Place of work
Bratislava region
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Capability Definition
Applies UNIX technical knowledge to solve complex business requirements and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Uses consulting skills including, but not limited to: interviewing clients to understand business needs, developing technical solutions, and working with multiple teams to accomplish project deliverables. Capable of consulting, designing, testing, implementing, managing capability requirements, integration of custom components into varied environments and provision of third level production support using standard methodologies.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for client/account interactions as required
• Responsible for producing part or all of the technical solution for the account/client, in accordance with an agreed technical design.
• Responsible to make sure that the project deliverable is completed accurately and on time
• Responsible for escalating the issues, problems, risks, and constraints to the appropriate parties for clarification and resolution
• Responsible for design and engineering of custom Infrastructure solutions based on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Responsible for communication with the Lead Engineer and account/client.
• Responsible for the engineering of end to end solutions as required
• Responsible for keeping abreast of new/emerging technology
• Responsible for design, development, implementation using the Global Engineering specifications, methodology and practical application of ITIL practices and processes

Company on whose behalf the position is being filled

Information technology, computer programming, web portals

Leading IT Company in Region.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Other knowledge

UNIX/Linux administration - Expert
LAN/WAN administration - Advanced

Personality requirements and skills

Education and Experience Required
Required:
• Unix System Administration I and II Certification
• At least 3 years (Specialist) or 5 years (Expert) of experience using, building and maintaining one of the mainstream Linux or Unix base O/S's such as Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris HP-UX, AIX
• Basic knowledge of most of the following areas:
 Linux/UNIX based
 Web Server (Sun One, iPlanet, Apache)
 RDMBS (Oracle)
 Application server (Apache, JBoss, TomCat, WebLogic)
 Networking fundamentals
 Firewalls
 Routers
 TCP/IP
 Load Balancing (F5, Cisco)
 High Availability and Clustering
 J2EE Architecture
 Linux/UNIX Scripting
 Good understanding and basic (technical) knowledge of Cloud technologies
 Veritas Volume Manager and File System management
 Good understanding and basic (technical) knowledge of virtualization technology including migrations (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, P2V, P2P, PlateSpin, DoubleTake, Grid, Solaris Zones, AIX LPARS/WPARs, HP-UX vPARs)
 Good knowledge of English language (verbal & written)
Technical Skills
• Demonstrates specialist understanding of both server hardware & server operating system deployment, configuration, testing & administration.
• Server Refresh and Migrations experience (properly coordinate servers stand up and coordinate migrations between Datacenters.)
• Minimum 3 years (Specialist) or 5 years (Expert) of experience engineering and supporting enterprise server solutions
• Comfortable with Linux and UNIX troubleshooting.
• Has experience of designing and engineering solutions in a distributed infrastructure environment (e.g. Servers, Blade Systems, Storage Area Networks, and Virtualization Technologies).
• Experience leading the development and delivery of specific project work packages including the installation, configuration and administration of UNIX/Linux Operating Systems.
• Demonstrates an understanding of unit testing, configuration and defect lifecycle management.
• Awareness of ITIL and/or CMM practices and processes.
• Demonstrates an advanced understanding of UNIX and Linux operating systems, boot sequence, run levels, service enabling/disabling server customization.
• Demonstrates an advanced understanding of patching procedures and strategy
• Demonstrates advanced level of developing/debugging shell scripts (csh, ksh, bash, perl)
• Demonstrates an understanding of Networking services (NIS,NIS+, DNS, TCPIP, Samba)
• Demonstrates an understanding of web server management and configuration, Apache
• Demonstrates experience of significant upgrades, both operating systems and bespoke configurations across a wide area network with ability to work under pressure in a time constrained situation
• Demonstrates an understanding of storage connectivity technologies (SAN, iSCSI, FCoE)
• Demonstrates an understanding of network trunking and VLAN tagging
Personal Skills
• Take initiative and be pro-active
• Service minded and Customer-focused
• Team player
• Good communication skills
• Flexible

Additional Education desired:
 Blade and Enclosure Technology
 Cloud Infrastructure Computing (HP Openview, OpenStack)
 MQ Series
 LDAP and Permissions Management
 COGNOS, BizTalk
 HP Server Automation (HPSA/Opsware)
 Sun, Veritas, HP, Red Hat, AIX Clustering
 Oracle RAC, ASM
 SAN and NAS technologies
 Security and Content Portals
 Solid skills in using MS Project, MS Office and SharePoint Knowledge on Windows technologies and services

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Brief description of the company

Grain Slovakia is a member of the international Anxo Group that provides services in the area of system integration and outsourcing of IT and HR solutions.

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Number of employees

10-19 employees
ID: 2113763  Dátum zverejnenia: 19.5.2015