Unix Engineer - Hybrid - FTC 12 Months - £60.5k excellent pension & bens.

Greater Manchester or Lancashire


Unix Engineer need to work within the Infrastructure Team, your primary responsibilities will be to support and build Unix/Linux infrastructure. This requires a strong knowledge of secure UNIX ( AIX), system configuration, as well as integration and support of wider data center infrastructure technologies.


Working within a regulated organisation with strict adherence to security and change control processes, the engineer would act as a subject matter expert for the Unix/Linux estate. This includes fault diagnosis and deep dive configuration to ensure services are running securely, reliably and efficiently.


As the Unix engineer in a team of 4 Unix engineers you will support enabling data centre infrastructure technologies such as storage, backup, tooling and remote access. You will provide technical leadership and consultation for projects. and support on administration and Level 3 incident resolution.


As much of the following as possible:

Unix Engineering experience at a 3rd line level or similar.
Knowledge of AIX Power platform and guest build, configuration and administration.
RHEL build, configuration and administration.

Any experience in the following general areas woudl be helpful:

• Unix/Linux resilient storage connectivity.
• Unix/Linux virtualization.
• Unix/Linux clustering.
• Unix/Linux backup and recovery.
• LDAP services.
• Unix/Linux patch and license management.
• Configuration and administration of SAN storage arrays and associated fabric infrastructure.
• Configuration and administration of enterprise SAN solution(s).
• Significant server build experience.

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