Unix / Linux Engineer
NTT DATA · Birmingham, England ·
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Overview
In this hands-on engineering role, you will provide technical expertise for Unix/Linux environments within the managed services context. You’ll support incident resolution, drive root-cause analysis, and guide technical delivery to meet customer expectations. You’ll contribute to technical documentation, service improvements, and cross-team collaboration to uphold high standards. This position offers impact through ensuring stable, secure, and well-documented infrastructure across complex multi-site environments.
Pay / Benefits
- tailored benefits
- flexible work options
- Learning and Development opportunities
Responsibilities
- Support advanced troubleshooting of incidents in customer environments
- Serve as technical resource for major Unix/Linux incidents
- Manage incidents within agreed service levels and perform root-cause analysis
- Assist projects to align technical solutions with customer requirements
- Document technical work to professional standards and contribute to knowledge sharing
- Identify technical problems and opportunities for service improvements
- Log calls with third-party vendors and manage resolutions or escalations
- Ensure proper configuration of all technical components within the tower
- Contribute to technical excellence across the Infrastructure team
- Align with managed service leadership on technical and service goals
Key requirements
- Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux operating systems in technical support roles
- Proficiency administering multiple Unix/Linux platforms (RHEL, HP-UX, SLES, Solaris, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian)
- Experience with LDAP/BIND/Ignite Administration
- Understanding of network services, storage, virtualization, IAM in a Unix environment
- Ability to create and develop shell scripts
- Experience deploying and managing security and patching (e.g., Red Hat Satellite)
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-site incidents
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Experience using Service Desk tools for incidents/changes/problems and reporting
- ITIL qualification
- Professional IT certifications related to Unix/Linux
- Excellent communication
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Conflict management and stakeholder management
- Unix/Linux administration (RHEL, HP-UX, SLES, Solaris, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian)
- LDAP/Ignite administration
- Shell scripting
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