Unix Engineer (Site Resilience) - OUTSIDE IR35 - £400-£420 at Parity Professionals, Edinburgh, 6 Months, £400-£420 per day

Parity Group are delighted to be engaged with a well-known progressive organisation on a large project and as a result have the need for a UNIX Engineer to join their team based in Edinburgh on a 6 months contract.

ALL APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS OUTSIDE IR35.

Role

An experienced Unix engineer is required to assist the organisation in the design and build of a new Unix platform and improve the existing setup.

Main Outcomes

• Migrate current UNIX platform to RHEL8
• Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities
• Integrate core infrastructure with NetApp Metrocluster
• Deliver MongoDB upgrade/migration project
• Review vendor support agreements

Additional Services

• Provide expert guidance on setup and support for current platform
• Continue to drive service improvements across security and system vulnerabilities
• Maintain existing platform to include future provisioning and best practice setup
• Support for existing UNIX infrastructure
• Optimisation of existing and new UNIX infrastructure
• Disaster Recovery design & implementation for Solaris
• Storage Management for Solaris, RHEL & Windows on NetApp
• Hashicorp Vault Secrets Management
• Hashicorp Consul and Vault Architectural Design and Implementation
• Ansible automation of OS and Application and deployments/upgrades
• Develop and maintain site monitoring for Solaris, NetApp, Oracle & NSX using REST APIs, InfluxDB, Grafana & Nagio
• RHEL AD integration using both IDM and Winbind
• Solaris AD integration using OneIdentity Authentication Services
• Regular Solaris patching and security hardening in line with Cyber Essentials Plus
• Red Hat Satellite management
• Solaris IPS repo management
• Security analysis/remediation of in-house Legacy Solaris applications
• Jenkins administration and pipeline creation
• Implement and support Load Balancer technologies such as HAProxy and keepalived
• CommVault backup administration
• Samba administration
• ZFS administration

Essential Skills and Experience:

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience of the following:

• Unix

o RHEL 6/7/8 System administration

o Solaris 2.6 onwards to 11 administration

o Solaris Zone administration

o Oracle VM administration using Oracle VM Manager

o Red Hat Satellite administration

o Automation

• NetApp

o Ontap 9 CLI

o REST API

o MetroCluster

• Jenkins

o System configuration

o Pipeline creation and management

• Backup

o CommVault

o Snap Manager for Oracle

o Avamar

• Shell Scripting, specifically Bash and Perl
• Python
• Ansible
• Stackstorm
• Orquesta
• Load Balancer technologies, eg HAProxy and keepalived
• Grafana, Nagios and InfluxDB
• Agile working practices, including Kanban/Scrum, retrospectives, VFQ.
• Cyber Essentials Plus methodology
• Customer focused, through proactive engagement
• Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
• Effective team working and technical decision making
• Designing and leading infrastructure projects
• Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation andsharing knowledge with, a range of sources and stakeholders
• Strong documentation skills essential
• DevOps practices, including automation of infrastructure

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Work with wider assurance function to ensure DR testing procedures are well established and performant
• General security design and architecture knowledge
• Support of Oracle DBs on Solaris
• Avamar backup administration
• Understanding Oracle license model

If this sounds like the right role for you then wait no longer and get intiuch by applying with your CV or give Kishia Odiaka a call for a brief discussion and immediate consideration

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