**Unix Engineer**
• *Outside IR35 - £530**
• *Remote**
• *6-month contract**
We are looking for an experienced Unix engineer to help in the design and build of a new Unix platform.
• *Main outcomes & objectives**
- Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities
- Support for existing UNIX infrastructure
- Optimisation of existing and new UNIX infrastructure
- Support and deploy PAM
- Samba administration
- Vmware vRealize Automation administration
- Support and deploy Ansible Tower
• *Essential skills & experience**
• *Significant and demonstrable commercial experience of the following**:
- Unix
- RHEL 6/7/8 System administration
- Solaris administration
- Solaris Zone 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
- Ansible, including Ansible Tower deployment and administration
- 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 & experience**
- General security design and architecture knowledge
- Support of Oracle DBs on Solaris
- Understanding Oracle SW & HW license model
- Support of MongoDB on RHEL
- Python
- Hashicorp Vault, including deployment and administration
- Hashicorp Vault Secrets Management
- Hashicorp Vault Architectural Design and Implementation
- Backup
