Unix System Administration Expert (m/f)

Nash direct GmbH supports many of Germanys leading organisations to source, recruit and manage the highly skilled IT and engineering talent they need to succeed in an increasingly technology-driven world.
We offer our employees promising career prospects and access to interesting and challenging technology roles throughout Germany.
For our client in the banking sector in Frankfurt, we are currently hiring an Unix System Administration Expert (m/f).

Reference Number: 322611
Start date: 15.3.2017
Location: Frankfurt
Duration: in a limited permanent position at Nash direct/Harvey Nash Group for 18 months with option to extend

Tasks:
* The main objective of the position is to provide 1st and 2nd level support to the client Unix and Linux based systems and services. Depending on skills of the offered candidate, this might over time extend to the cover also Windows server environment and Oracle basic administration.
* Investigate, diagnose and resolve system incidents and problems using available tools and referring to external suppliers if required;
* Perform root cause analysis of all Data Centre infrastructure events resulting in service interruption and proactively involve other IT teams and business areas to identify solutions.
* Propose automated event response solutions;
* Proactively identifies and proposes improvements to services, technologies, processes and documentation in order to increase clients system availability, stability and improve customer experience;
* Propose and develop solutions to improve operational efficiency of system administration team as well as Data Centre section;
* Provide knowledge transfer to other colleagues in the Data Centre section and ensure accurate and up-to-date technical documentation related to systems operated by Data Centre section is available;
* Deploy, configure, support development, test, pre-production and productions systems and environments, integrating business applications under development with the standard infrastructural components and documenting installation and operational procedures for further deployments in Data Centre Operations;
* Complete assigned tasks by agreed deadlines and at high quality;
* Contribute to the deployment of IT solutions in production by advising on the production impact of planned changes, assisting other team members in Data Centre Operations during the rollout and post implementation;
* Supporting design and preparation of recovery and contingency exercises to ensure system recovery in accordance with the predefined plans and documentation;
* If required support service development processes by executing technical transition: acting as single point of contact for project teams, ensuring required resource requirements are understood and timely communicated to respective team leader, planning, preparing and executing technical transition tests;
* Shift work possible
* On Call Duties possible

Your profile:
* For people who need a Blue Card, a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Information system security is mandatory.
* For people with unlimited work permit for Germany a Degree is not necessary.
* Very good command of English with proven drafting ability.
* Good understanding of and experience working with ITIL processes, particularly change, incident and problem management.
* several years of experience working with Unix systems.
* Knowledge of Solaris 10/11 administration (including Solaris virtualization technologies and Solaris Cluster administration), Unix Ldap and Kerberos administration, Oracle hardware maintenance and troubleshooting, RedHat Linux, VMware vSphere, Unix shell scripting.
* Experience operating mission-critical IT infrastructure environments, e.g. in financial service, IT hosting or defence industries, working in mixed operating system and database environments ( including Windows/Linux/Unix, MS SQL Server, Oracle, ESX, etc.), managing technical service transition, creation and maintenance of support documentation.

Additional desirable technical competencies:
* supporting Windows based systems, including monitoring, identifying and need for and performing preventive or remedial maintenance;
* deployment, configuration and support of development, test, pre-production and productions systems and environments;
* Evaluating and executing changes and service requests according to provided operating procedures while maintaining agreed service levels and deadlines;
* Maintaining accurate and up-to-date technical, configuration management, inventory and troubleshooting documentation related to business applications and systems;
* Assisting in development of standards for deployed system hardware, OS and software components;
* Planning, preparation and documentation of maintenance activities (such as hardware firmware, OS and software upgrades);
* Oracle database administration basics;
* Supporting design and preparation of recovery and contingency exercises to ensure system recovery in accordance with the predefined plans and documentation;
* Operating and troubleshooting Tivoli backup systems.
* Working knowledge of MS Office (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
* Understanding of network and storage concepts, technologies and equipment

Were proud to build our company around creative and talented people who value our companys culture, the diversity of our projects and the attractiveness of our clients.
Our market-oriented salaries as well as our transparent and dedicated approach with our clients and candidates lay the basis for a long-term partnership with our employees.

We look forward to receiving your application and are available to you at your convenience for any questions or queries you might have about this role, [email protected].