Linux / Unix Engineer - L3

Direct Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7/365 primary support of all RedHat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu & AIX servers.
• Proactively monitor all UNIX systems utilizing BNP Paribas standard tools.
• Designing and implementing solutions, using Git and Veritas Cluster & Volume manager
• Management of SAN and NAS at server side
• Administrating both volume managers, Veritas and LVM
• Maintaining and adapting the configuration of server software and system components lifecycle Management.
• Leverages Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform whenever and wherever possible (or other automation skills valuable like Puppet for developing and maintaining automation scripts)
• Maintaining and monitoring the infrastructure using different tools
• Tickets resolution through incidents, problems and different requests from the clients or other infrastructure teams
• Troubleshooting, co-ordination with third party suppliers and vendors as well as with the central IT department of the customer.
• Providing training about subject matters in scope to colleagues
• Advising the project team in areas such as capacity management.
• Contingency planning, environment planning, configuration management and other relevant tasks related to the role.
• Maintaining the relevant documents/manuals describing the system and its infrastructure.
• Escalating incidents internally or to 3rd party partners when required.
• Participating, on a punctual basis, on specific projects related to your specialty.
• Liaise with application developers to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems, which clearly differentiate between Production, DR, Test and Development.
• Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development team and Equity business to make corrections and mitigate risks.
• Ensure that all systems are backed up according to the business requirements and notify the data owners when there are failures.
• Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems; and meet all disaster recovery requirements specified by the business.
• Maintain top-notch technical skills and business knowledge through proactive self-learning in addition to any formal instructor-led training provided by BNP Paribas.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Degree in Information Systems
• 10+ years of experience in Linux/ UNIX environment within the financial services industry
• Expert knowledge of RedHat Enterprise 8.x, 9.x and solid footing in Centos and Ubuntu
• Expert Knowledge of UNIX kernel and network subsystem tuning and optimization desirable.
• Good knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, sar, iostat, etc.
• Good programming skills with Perl, Awk, Sed, Shell script, Puppet, Ansible.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and basic networking ability to use and understand output of tcpdump/snoop
• Administration of Unix core services and applications such as NIS, NFS, Automount, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SendMail, Apache, NTP, PTP, Sudo, Jumpstart/Kickstart, LDAP, SSH.
• Hands-on experience with technologies (Veritas Infoscale, OpenSVC, VMWare, KVM etc.)
• Comfortable performing system upgrades, installing layered products, and analyzing and troubleshooting complex production systems.
• Hands-on experience with various hardware including Dell and HP servers.
• Good knowledge of EMC SAN storage arrays and NetAPP Network Appliances
• Should be familiar with system administration regarding relational databases (Sybase, Oracle), Middleware (WebSphere MQ), and market data distribution (Reuters RMDS) a plus.
• Ability to interface with users at all levels of the organization and good end-user support skills.
• Must be well organized, responsible, a good project manager, have good verbal and written communication skills, and able to multitask in dynamic trading environment.
• Work as a member of a team, adhere to corporate standards and change management processes, and work to improve IT standards and policies.
• Proficient in English.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Required Technical Knowledge/Skills:

• At least 10+ years of technical experience in as many of these operating systems (OS):
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x / 9.x & Ubuntu 18.x / 20.x & CentOS 7.x
• Red Hat Satellite
• Veritas Cluster (VCS)
• OpenSVC
• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Ansible
• Devops methodologies
• Cloud experience
• Handles the product lifecycle of the Unix infrastructure to assure operational availability; designs and specifies changes for implementation.
• Candidate must be competent on how to install the OS on physical servers and virtual servers.
• Troubleshooting Knowledge on RHEL 8.x / 9.x
• Scripting Knowledge.
• Hardware and Networking Knowledge on Server Hardware Multiple Vendors, Remote Management Tools, Software & Hardware RAID, Technical understanding on network topologies & devices, Storage Devices
• Strong knowledge on governance, server build and administration of IT services in cloud-based environments.
• Patching through Satellite & Client-side yum configuration.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, including configuration guides, and standard operating procedures. Direct and be responsible for the implementation effort.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Assess demand for their service or technology area and develop plans to meet future capacity needs and makes recommendations to the manager.
• Aware of all critical changes to infrastructure and applications that could impact service delivery to their business customers.
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team using strong analytical skills.
• Be service oriented, customer focused, positive, committed and have an enthusiastic can do attitude.
• Demonstrate a systematic and logical approach to problem-solving.
• Able to follow the bank’s standards, processes, and procedures.
• Escalating incidents internally or to 3rd party partners when required.
• ITIL 4 Foundation qualification.

Requirements [only in bullet points, technical & leadership & soft skills, nice to haves etc. on the same place, no splits]. Example:

• English (mandatory)
• Expertise on high availability environments.
• Redhat/Ubuntu distribution
• Devops methodologies
• Cloud experience

Perks and benefits