Senior Systems Engineer

Senior System Engineer - (Unix & Windows) | Solaris Unix | RedHat Linux | Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) | Permanent | Job

Senior System Engineer - (Storage and Backup) required to join a blue light service with offices in Oxfordshire.

Main duties:

• Providing 3rd line System Admin support for a Solaris Unix and RedHat Linux server infrastructure, with a focus on the day to day backup, DR, patching, compliance and monitoring of server estate.

• Providing 3rd line System Engineer support for a large, distributed Microsoft Windows server infrastructure, with a focus on the day to day backup, DR, patching, compliance and monitoring of server estate.

• Operation, configuration, and lifecycle management of the server compliance toolsets in use, including Tenable.sc and Symantec Data Center Security.

• Act as the technical lead for internally and externally led infrastructure health check activities.

• Remediation of discovered server vulnerabilities.

• Producing server compliance reports for management and customers.

• Broad experience of physical, virtual server and cloud-based server build and configuration best practise that will assist in vulnerability avoidance.

• Document best practise and known vulnerability fixes.

Essential skills required:

• Good understanding of server hardware and physical server configuration.

• Practical and operational experience in the support and maintenance of;

o Solaris Unix/RedHat Linux

Small Solaris Unix and RedHat Linux server estate.

Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) on Unix.

Oracle DB servers on Unix platforms, ability to triage and troubleshoot Oracle issues.

Red Hat Linux 5 and 6, and knowledge of version 7

Red Hat Satellite

Solaris Unix and LVM (logical volume manager) SAN storage configuration

TCP/IP networking in a Unix environment

Nagios monitoring and configuration

o Microsoft Windows Server

Large server estate comprising Microsoft Windows Server in a multi-domain environment, hosted on physical, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft server operating system build processes, including VMware templates, physical servers and Azure hosted servers.

Practical experience using Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy.

• Must have strong communication skills including experience in communicating to Senior Management level.

• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation including;

o Standard operating procedures

o Knowledge base articles

o Detailed troubleshooting documentation

• Experience working in an ITIL focussed environment with a good understanding of the incident, service request and change management processes.

Desirable technical skills:

• Practical experience in the operational support and usage of Azure IaaS components including the use of Azure Monitor, Security Center and Sentinel.

• Operational usage of SCCM Current Branch and SCOM 2019.

• Familiar with Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks and hardened images.

Senior System Engineer - (Unix & Windows) | Solaris Unix | RedHat Linux | Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) | Permanent | Job