Atos posted a job you might be interested in September 02, 2014 at 12:28PM

Atos



UNIX Technical Specialist

United Kingdom, GB - Information Technology and Services

The role is to provide support for Unix infrastructure at an Atos site (Winnersh, LTQ, Andover, Livingston or BBP). The key infrastructure is based on RedHat, Solaris, AIX, with legacy systems on HP-UX Tru64 & VMS.



Working within a small dedicated team (7x Unix) & in conjunction with a larger account based team. Due to the nature of the work, this role would suit a multi skilled individual.



Standard Base Support Definition: 12 * 5 Incident & Problem Management (On-site at ATOS office during the office hours of 08:00 to 18:00 (standard client support hours), & on-call out of hours for agreed servers) – Resolution of user incident & problems requiring expert UNIX attention.



• Completion of client change control tasks.



• Security strategy & maintenance - Installation of any required 3rd Party products & O/S hardening.



• O/S maintenance - Maintain system to supported releases of operating system - Installation of O/S fixes in a cumulative manner, or piecemeal as a result of a particular problem & implementation of regular housekeeping routines.



• Hardware Maintenance of UNIX systems – liaising with appropriate 3rd Parties to ensure all hardware issues are successfully resolved within the agreed SLAs.



• Proactive Patch Management for all supported systems including developing & applying a regular patching policy.



• Capacity Management, Performance Analysis & System Tuning - Performance data collection & reporting with recommendation of hardware or software alterations to improve systems performance - On-going exercise.



• Maintenance of best practice - Systems configuration complying with best practice dictated by the providers, & on-going maintenance of the systems documentation.



• Security Administration - Creating, Deleting & Altering user profiles on supported servers, ensuring that the security strategy in place is adhered to, as well as flagging all security breaches.



• Defining thresholds/message filtering/rules for automation monitoring that will enable proactive management of the UNIX systems.



• O/S configuration for additional servers – Server installation & configuration to the client's specific requirement.



• Installation, customisation, configuration & software maintenance of Business applications.



Provide any UNIX Server reports as requested by the customer. This will typical include:



-Disk space allocated to various Servers



-Availability of the Servers including outages



Job Requirements



Essential



This is a restricted account & as such the security clearance required is SC (required), with HO clearance (preference). The successful candidate will also have to apply for BPSS & potentially HO once within role.



Technical requirements:-



RHEL 5 & 6

AND either:-

Solaris 8, 9, 10 & 11



OR



AIX 6 & 7



On-call support & a willingness to provide some out of hours work (scheduled changes & patching work)



Desirable



Either Solaris 8, 9, 10 & 11 OR AIX 6 & 7



Knowledge of HP-UX



Knowledge of AIX



Any knowledge of VMS



Knowledge of at least 1 other Unix OS



Knowledge of HP-UX ServiceGuard



Knowledge of HP-UX VSE



Knowledge of RedHat Satellite server



Knowledge of ASM within an Unix environment



Knowledge of Cluster (HA CMP, RedHat, Sun Cluster, VCS etc)



Additional Information



Compensation and Benefits



A great incentive to join the Atos team is the market competitive range of benefits that the Company provides. These include a competitive salary, as well as a number of core benefits, such as; 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays; private medical insurance, which all new starters will be automatically opted into; an attractive stakeholder pension scheme, with employer contributions of up to 10% basic salary; Life Assurance; Income Protection; Personal Accident Insurance; and Season Ticket Loan. In addition to this Atos operates a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to purchase discounted products and services. Additionally, comprehensive training and development is delivered in a variety of ways, leading to accreditation if required.



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