Alshaya

(This role is open for an Indian National only)

Job Description

The Senior Technical Support Engineer / Technical Team Lead role will have primary responsibilities of complete administration and maintenance for all *nix (Linux & Unix) systems located at our data centres and other several smaller sites. In addition will be engaged in implementing enterprise system/application on UNIX and Virtual platforms. You will participate, in the planning and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure systems provisioning, efficiency, and maintenance that is consistent with company goals, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements. Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures. Work in collaboration with other members of the Enterprise Computing Team on new systems setup, performance management, routine maintenance, capacity planning, break/fix, backups, and data centre operations.

Responsibilities

• Installing, monitoring, and upgrading LINUX/UNIX system software across multiple platforms and infrastructures.
• Creating and maintaining LINUX/UNIX user accounts and access management systems.
• Creating and setting standardized backup and recovery policies, as well as security policies.
• Applying patches and upgrades when necessary.
• Assisting in resolution of operating systems in-accessibility, multi-layered environment.
• Analysing impact of software changes across other functional units.
• Maintaining space utilization statistics, forecast future space requirements.
• Assist with providing a readily accessible data back up to allow for the restoration of files
• A team player with a pro-active approach, commitment, flexibility, and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Perform patching activities where required manually, and as available, by way of leveraging mass automation through the Ansible
• Managing and Maintenance of Solaris Zones
• Management of Storage allocations in Solaris infrastructure
• Provision and decommission the systems as and when required
• Evaluating and exploring the new solutions to improve the existing infrastructure for better and optimal performances.
• Troubleshooting from single user or Dracut or grub or maintenance modes
• Must work with Incident, problem and change management
• Maintain and manage enterprise MFT solution
• Management of SSL enterprise account
• Coordination with relevant stake holders and vendors
• Providing feasible and recommended solutions with industry best standard practices
• Review infrastructure for Single Points of Failure (SPOF's) and escalate to correct teams and look for capacity related incidents and bring focus to senior management 
• Collaborate with infrastructure and application owners and ensure that the end to end technology solutions are met as per business requirements
• Mentor and provide training to junior members of the team and effectively & swiftly on-board them 

Requirement & Skills (Areas of Expertise)

• Overall 5+ Years' experience with experience in RHEL, CentOS and Oracle Linux
• Possessing knowledge or hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Python, and Shell scripting will be considered an added advantage.
• Prior experience working on Unix-based platforms such as Solaris is also advantageous.
• Functions well in managing and maintaining a large-scale, complex, cross-functional / platform server environment, especially those in multiple data centres.
• Understanding of High Availability architecture (Load Balancing, Distribution, Failover, Replication)
• Strong administration of Unix core services and applications such as NFS, LVM, DNS, DHCP, Samba, SendMail, IPtables, vsFTPD, Apache, NTP, SSL/TLS, Linux kernel, LDAP, SSH.
• Good programming skills with the ability to write at least 1 of the following scripting languages Perl, Python or Shell scripts
• Experienced in middleware and web services such as Pentaho, Jscape, Boomi, and JBoss, WildFly, TomCat etc.
• 2-3 years of working experience in automation tools like Ansible, Puppet and exposure to Chef
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and networking - ability to use and understand output of tcpdump/snoop technology
• Working knowledge on recognized ITSM tool (ServicewNOW) or any other ticketing tools
• Experience in Solaris zones and Cluster concepts will be an added advantage
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree.

Personal Skills

• Ability to work independently with minimum inputs. Should be a strong team player.
• Excellent problem solver with the ability to prioritize and coordinate between tasks.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional customer service and end user support.
• Ability to clearly document problems, solutions and important information for the team.
• Able to write or verbally express concise easy to follow instructions for the end user, including the ability to articulate and convey technical information to non-technical people.
• Excited to learn and adapt to new technologies.

What can you Expect?

We believe in developing the talent of the future through IT Service Offerings which benefits our business as well as the communities in which we operate. Our scale and diversity brings wide opportunity to those with a passion to deliver.

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