Red Hat Linux Production Support Engineer, Bank, Brussels

BACKGROUND: Brussels based international bank, has a Unix Engineering team responsible for the 2nd and 3rd level support of 600+ IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Linux Servers running various applications. The team is also responsible for architectural designs for projects using Unix/Linux as well as accountable and responsible for the stability of Unix/Linux environments.

ESSENTIAL TASKS:

Incident Management:
- Provide 2nd/3rd level support for Linux operating systems and applications within the bank. Escalation to third party vendors as required.
- Ensure compliance with Key Performance Indicators.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT:
- Technical validation/review of system changes within the company. Planning and administration of changes affecting the Linux environment;
- Ensure Changes are reviewed and performed on time.

PROJECT BASED ACTIVITIES:
- Be a technical lead, or backup for Linux based projects within the bank. Liaise with other technical and business teams to ensure the successful completion of projects.
- Liaise with Project Managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and budget

DOCUMENTATION:
- The creation and administration of technical documentation for the Unix team as and when required. Present to and train colleagues to support our Linux environment.
- Documentation and Information

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
Strong Red Hat Linux knowledge, Red Hat 5/6;
Experience with KVM and/or RHEV;
Experience with Red Hat Cluster;
Good knowledge of RPM, yum, kickstart, and related technologies.
Experience with automation and life cycle management in medium-sized environments (100's of Servers);
Shell Scripting;
Technical Documentation;

Language: English

Desirable Skills but not essential:
BMC BladeLogic; Security tools and concepts (SSH, SSL, PKI, LDAP, etc.)
Financial services/controlled environment exposure;
BeyondTrust PowerBroker;
Quest Authentication Services (QAS);
Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct for Unix/NT;
Tivoli Monitoring Agent;
Web/E-business technologies (LDAP, Apache, WebSphere, etc)

Normal working hours 09:00 - 17:00 but please note there is some out of hours watch duty support.