A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy is seeking a Unix Systems Administrator for a major financial institution based in the City (hybrid working) 4-month contract initially, Inside IR35

Responsibilities
As a dynamic self-starter you will leverage your skills to primarily administer and support the Bank's global estate of 80K Unix virtual and bare metal OS instances.
Acting as Unix subject matter expert, you will engage our business clients by responding to 3rd line escalations and / or joining incident bridge calls to triage, analyse and ultimately restore service outages.
You will be passionate about what you do and enjoy deep diving into root cause analysis to establish whether process or policy necessitates change or enhancement.
Being an excellent communicator, you will collaborate regularly with your global counterparts regarding technology initiatives that not only deliver business value, but additionally realize Bank targets and goals.
To foster a sustainable pace that caters for changing needs, there will be a requirement to participate in a shift rota that targets either the early, middle, or later parts of the day
UNIX systems consultation, support and administration
Incident triage, investigation and restoration
Deep dive problem root cause analysis and known error remediation planning
Participate in bridge line triage calls and facilitate management updates
Drive project delivery and logistics
Generate management activity reports
Drive project delivery and logistics
Enforce policy, standards and procedure
Disaster failover, recovery and isolation testing
Co-ordination of Event resolution in conjunction with offshore peer teams
Facilitate warm hand over of impacting issues as part of global follow the sun rotation
Vulnerability and configuration drift management
Facilitate audit reviews
Work against pre-determined working practices with fixed scope
Integrate Change management where applicable

Experience Required
Excellent Administration / troubleshooting skills ( RHEL 6,7,8 / Solaris 10 ) for a financial institution
Proficient at manipulating virtualized Linux deployments at an ESX layer
Bare metal Red Hat Clustering technologies - RHCS / PaceMaker
Veritas Infoscale - Filesystem / Volume Manager / Cluster
Networking topologies ( TCP/IP stack / DHCP / Bonding / Teaming / Multipathing )
Domain name system
Shell Scripting knowledge
Understanding of SAN / NAS Storage principles from an OS layer
Infrastructure support and trouble shooting of Oracle/HP/IBM/Dell hardware
Authentication Services - Vintella / SSSD
ITIL frameworks within BMC Remedy ( Incident/Problem/Known Error/Change )

Desired
Packet capture / deep dive analysis - Wireshark
Knowledge of Oracle Real Application Clusters ( RAC ) from a Linux OS layer
Familiarisation with alternative time adherence technologies - FSMLabs TimeKeeper
Performance/Capacity Management - BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization
Low Latency - RHEL tuning methodologies
Automation - BMC BladeLogic / Atrium Orchestrator
Programming Ansible / Python / Perl
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