Unix Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND KEY DELIVERABLES:

Responsible for the technical delivery and support of our Solaris & Linux based platforms, offering escalated support, meeting operational, project and initiative needs.

- Proven track record of technical project delivery
- Ability to create high-quality documentation
- Experience across a range of Unix/Linux disciplines
- Proven to be able to work individually
- To be responsible for installation/de-installation, configuration, maintenance and repair of systems and software
- To respond to customer requests/incidents and troubleshoot hardware-software problems
- Support in managing and deployment of new tools to improve ways of working and overall efficiency
- Support the design, build of new systems
- Produce documentation and use any appropriate means to ensure effective communications of systems, processes and procedures to both internal and external parties
- Comply to standards of physical security, capacity planning and other related industry standards
- Record and maintain accurate incident and change records and logs
- Proactively detect and report to managementany operational threats
- Ensure the operational availability of the systems and infrastructure

MAIN REQUIREMENTS:

- 2+ years of experience with IT, preferably in a Telco/Cable environment
- 2+ years proficiency administering Unix & Linux Operating systems (Solaris 10 & ll, RHEL 5/6/7, OEL 5/6/7)
- 2+ years proficiency with installing operating Systems including Solaris, RHEL Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux
- 2+ years proficiency of Virtualization Tooling including Oracle Virtual Machine, Solaris LDOM's & Zones
- Awareness of security, hardening and patching
- Awareness of Logical Volume disk management (Solaris Volume Manager & ZFS)
- Effective time management, communication and organizational skills
- Strong inter-personal communication skills, must be flexible and team player whilst retaining the ability to be self-reliant and work unsupervised
- Must be able to learn new technologies and techniques quickly
- Self-motivated
- In possession of a valid EU work permit, preferably already living in the Netherlands
- Optional skills would include: VMware, Oracle engineered Systems, Veritas Volume manager