Systems Engineer

This role is being offered as a contract opportunity.

Some key responsibilities for the UNIX Systems Engineer will include:

- Systems Administration
- Implementation and configuration of infrastructure.
- Configuration and maintenance of highly available architectures.
- Administration, troubleshooting and configuration of QA, test and development systems.
- Scripting, automation and integration work (including for corporate systems).
- Backup and recovery.
- Assistance and consultancy to LSPs, MSPs and customers during new implementations and upgrades.

General

- Involvement in migrations of various systems, physically and logically.
- Implementation of new products and services.
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support of infrastructure for Monitise products.
- Functional and change control documentation.
- Capacity planning and management around QA, development and test systems.

If you have the following experience we want to hear from you:

Essential

- Extensive experience as a systems administrator/engineer in a commercial environment, dealing with business critical, high availability systems.
- Extensive experience with Java web application Servers and related technologies (GlassFish, Sun Application Server, Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, SQUID).
- Detailed knowledge of Solaris 10 (Zones, ZFS, resource management)
- Detailed knowledge of x86 and SPARC hardware.
- Knowledge and experience with Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster or similar high availability technologies.
- Practical experience of Scripting (Shell and/or Perl).
- Thorough understanding of Internet protocols and technologies, as well as an appreciation of network hardware, troubleshooting and design.
- Understanding of PKI, security and encryption, and the considerations surrounding their use.

Desirable

- Good understanding of SANs (Sun and/or Hitachi)
- HSM administration and configuration.
- Appreciation of systems architecture and design.
- Experience of mobile technologies (Java, Objective-C)
- Experience of automated server builds (Jumpstart, Jet, Kickstart)
- Experience of designing and implementing highly available solutions.
- Systems administration experience in finance, E-commerce, broadcast or an ISP.
- Networking skills; Good working knowledge of Cisco/Juniper Routers, Switches, Firewalls, content Switches/load balancers, VPNs, RADIUS.
- Experience with virtualisation technologies (VMWare, LDOMs).
- Experience with software build tools and development systems (Hudson/Jenkins, CVS, Mercurial, GIT, Eclipse)
- ITIL foundation (either certificate or working knowledge).
- HDS storage (AMS) and Brocade switching

Advantageous

- Database skills (preferably Oracle and MySQL).
- Working knowledge of Active Directory.
- Experience in a client-facing role.
- Appreciation of mobile technologies and protocols.

The successful UNIX Systems Engineer will have a wealth of knowledge of Solaris 10, x86 and SPARC hardware. Some practical experience of Scripting in Shell and/or Perl.

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