Unix Engineer | 6 months (Outside IR35) | Hybrid (Edinburgh)
Day Rate - circa 500
Harvey Nash's Client is recruiting for a Unix Engineer to assist in the design and build of a new Unix platform and improve the existing setup for an initial period of 6 months, working from their Edinburgh office on a hybrid basis.
Main Duties:
* Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities
* Develop and deploy automation for virtual builds of RedHat 8/9 images adhering to
* security best practice
* Support for existing UNIX infrastructure
* Optimisation of existing and new UNIX infrastructure
* Support and deploy PAM
* Support and deploy Ansible Tower
* 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
* Disaster Recovery design & implementation
* Storage Management for RHEL & Windows on NetApp
* Ansible automation of OS and Application and deployments/upgrades
* Develop and maintain site monitoring for NetApp & Oracle using REST APIs,
* InfluxDB, Grafana & Nagios
* Regular RHEL, KVM patching and security hardening
* Red Hat Satellite management
* Jenkins administration and pipeline creation
* Implement and support Load Balancer technologies such as HAProxy and
keepalived
* CommVault backup administration and agent deployment/configuration
o for Oracle DBs
o for RHEL OS and MongoDBs
* Work with wider assurance function to ensure DR testing procedures are well
established and performant
* Support PaloAlto XDR across Estate
* Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving
towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point
objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY
year.
Skills Required:
* Unix
o RHEL 6/7/8 System administration
o Oracle VM administration using Oracle VM Manager
o Red Hat Satellite administration
o Automation
* Jenkins
o System configuration
o Pipeline creation and management
o Shell scripting, specifically Bash and Perl
o Load Balancer technologies, e.g. HAProxy and keepalived
o Grafana, Nagios and InfluxDB
o Agile working practices, including Kanban/Scrum, retrospectives, VFQ.
o Cyber Essentials Plus methodology
o Customer focused, through proactive engagement
o Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
o Effective team working and technical decision making
o Designing and leading infrastructure projects
o Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with a range of stakeholders
o Strong documentation skills
o DevOps practices, including automation of infrastructure
Desirable Skills:
* General security design and architecture knowledge
* Support of Oracle DBs on KVM
* Understanding Oracle SW & HW license model
* Support of MongoDB on RHEL
* Python
* Backup
o CommVault
* NetApp
o Ontap 9 CLI
o REST API
o MetroCluster
This role falls outside of IR35 and is remote working. Please note that for this role you must have or be happy to get a Basic Disclosure Scotland. To apply, please send your CV using the link.