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
    • for Oracle DBs
    • 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
    • RHEL 6/7/8 System administration
    • Oracle VM administration using Oracle VM Manager
    • Red Hat Satellite administration
    • Automation
  • Jenkins
    • System configuration
    • Pipeline creation and management
    • Shell scripting, specifically Bash and Perl
    • Load Balancer technologies, e.g. 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 and sharing knowledge with a range of stakeholders
    • Strong documentation skills
    • 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
    • CommVault
  • NetApp
    • Ontap 9 CLI
    • REST API
    • 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.

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