Unix/Linux Engineer

Hunt Group – a mix of recruitment (executive search and head hunting) and outsourcing activities in industries such as IT, oil&gas, banking, finance and automotive.

- Heavy experience in Linux operating systems (industry certifications advantageous)
- Experience in provisioning tools including Satellite, Foreman, Puppet or Ansible
- Desirable experience in the Design/Architecture of AWS and hybrid cloud solutions
- Strong scripting and programming (BASH or Perl)
-Experience of HP and IBM hardware, VMWare, Control-M, TrueSight, NetBackup, Subversion, Jira and Remedy would be preferred

- Implement and support infrastructure solutions across a number of trading and information platforms, including a growing number of AWS hybrid cloud solutions
- Provide expertise on Red Hat Linux operating systems and associated Kickstart build technologies, and their integration with Satellite/Foreman lifecycle management
- Technical support provision for clustering solutions including Veritas Cluster Server, SLES/RHEL High Availability Extensions
- Manage multiple streams of work, project resource requests and out-of-hours/weekend support demands
- Correctly impact and manage the implementation of change without adverse impact to continuity of service, adhering to existing change policy and privileged access processes, liaising with other business and technical teams
- Support development changes, providing accurate estimates for time and risk, attending project meetings and analysing impact for proposed project work, meeting deadlines
- Collaborate with engineering efforts for performance tuning, systems deployment, and configuration management through Puppet
- Provide input to architectural designs for network, infrastructure, database and applications
- Identify and resolve latency and packet loss issues across InfiniBand and 10GbE fibre networks

Our client is a diversified international market infrastructure and capital markets business sitting at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.