Our client is a UK subsidiary of a global financial house working in multiple markets and asset classes. About the project: We are looking to expand our team with an experienced Linux Engineer. Successful candidate will help our client with BAU and Project activities, working as Unix SME in cooperation with Application Technology & Infrastructure teams to build and support complex IT infrastructure. Implementing best technology and service practices to achieve high availability and performance of related business applications.
About our team: Rapidly expanding group developing and supporting a range of client projects.
About working environment: Our team primary locations are Kiev, Warsaw. We are working remotely in client environment. Currently the team operates fully in WFH mode.
Main Purpose of the Role:
- Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing *nix related technologies across the estate
- Part of a team providing 24x7 *nix support internationally with a drive towards automation
- Implementation of automated solutions adhering to the strategic goals within the department
- Project delivery
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for all aspects of the *nix estate across the BANK
Primary responsibilities:
- Take part in the team rota including on-call and weekend working
- Deliver against team BAU responsibilities
- Identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a process flow of Service
Now -> AWX -> Ansible / scripting
- Ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets
- Support customer requirements through ticket-based task management as well as implementation of automation
Secondary responsibilities:
- Take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as required
- Ensure all Linux/Unix systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved
- Validate monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved
- Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth
- Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list in a timely manner.
- Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a "customer first" mindset
- Maintain Linux platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner
- General maintenance activities
- Provide technical support to application support and development teams
- Provide consultancy to application support and development teams
- Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests
- Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies
- Maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate
- Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise
- Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group.
- Build strong working relationships across the organisation
- Adhere to the core values of the bank
MUST
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Red Hat and Solaris in-depth - including system internals and kernel tuning.
- Red Hat Satellite
- Ansible
- AWX
- REST API integration
- Scripting
- CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts
- Dev/Ops mentality
- Git or other source code control software
- Security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.
- Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Perl and Bash scripting.
- Clustering and high-availability technologies
- Replication and disaster recovery.
- Security and auditing.
- Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.
- TCP/IP Networking Protocols.
Highly desirable:
- Service Now automation /integration
- Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity
- CyberArk
- Splunk and QRadar
- Qualys
- Salt Stack.
- VxVM and VxFS.
- NFS and CIFS.
- Understanding of DNS
- ESX VMWare
- Nutanix HCI.
- EMC and HDS storage arrays.
- EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
Desirable:
- IBM Tivoli and Netcool
- Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos
- BMC Control-M
- SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence.
- Working knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle.
Luxoft Poland
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Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a global digital strategy and software engineering firm with over 17,000 international employees within its 58 offices in 29 countries. It is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
In January 2019, Luxoft was acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology. Luxoft partnered with LG Electronics to create a next-generation Autonomous Mobility concept vehicle that integrates consumers' personalized digital lifestyles into a driving experience. Luxoft enabled Switzerland's first Blockchain based e-vote platform with the City of Zug and Hochschule Luzern's Blockchain Lab.
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a world-renowned company. It has been present on the Polish market for over 13 years. We have offices in Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Gdansk. We employ over 2,000 professional experts carrying out projects for over 100 clients from the financial, automotive, medical, tourist industries, etc. We work for many international clients, including the USA, Great Britain, and Switzerland.
So far, Luxoft Poland has made a name for itself as a company that offers work on innovative projects, we offer various experiences in the field of IT, opportunities for rapid development, an extensive training program, and attractive benefits for employees.
At present, 62% of Luxoft Poland employees come from Poland, and 38% from around 50 countries, including Ukraine, Brazil, India, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, USA, etc.
At Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company almost 80 percent of employees are experts with the "Senior" experience level, with at least five years of experience. We care about our employees, so every day we try to provide them with the best possible conditions for work and development.
Technology is our passion! We focus on top engineering talent means that you will be working with the best industry professionals from around the world. Because of that, Luxoft is a global family with an epic atmosphere – we love what we do!