Senior UNIX Infrastructure Expert

Location Deakin
Discipline IT Executives
Job reference 176218
Salary Negotiable
Consultant email linda.jona@au.experis.com

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Expert to join our team and manage our Midrange Unix Infrastructure. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and play a key part in troubleshooting and support across our Midrange environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide Level 2/Level 3 support for Midrange environments, advancing troubleshooting capabilities.
  • Collaborate with project and application teams to understand business needs and translate them into secure, efficient, and automated technical solutions.
  • Lead initiatives to improve resiliency and reduce technical debt by undertaking infrastructure upgrades, patching, and migrations to new platforms.
  • Work with teams across the Infrastructure Division and external vendors to plan and implement improvements, upgrades, and patching.
  • Support and enhance security monitoring and ensure compliance with security standards.
  • Mentor and coach junior infrastructure engineers, contributing to their technical growth and development.
  • Support business continuity planning and solutions development.
  • Participate in incident response, problem management, and change management activities.
  • Occasional after-hours support may be required as part of the Unix Operations team on-call roster.

Key Technologies:

  • Unix/Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, AIX)
  • IBM Power, Oracle SPARC
  • Red Hat OpenStack/OpenShift
  • High Availability Operating System Clustering technologies
  • Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible Scripting
  • Red Hat Satellite, Identity Manager

Candidate Criteria:

Mandatory:

  • Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM AIX Operating Systems.
  • Proven experience in creating detailed technical documentation (as-built documents, operational handovers, support guides).
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with networking, compute, storage, and security engineers, as well as architects.
  • Experience in coordinating with vendors and internal teams to ensure solution delivery.

Desirable:

  • Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat Pacemaker, Red Hat Satellite, and Identity Manager.
  • Expertise in Virtualization on IBM Power, VMware, OpenStack, and Oracle SPARC platforms.
  • Red Hat Certified Administrator (RHCA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or Oracle Solaris Administration Certification is highly regarded.

If you're a motivated UNIX/Linux Infrastructure expert with a passion for innovation and mentorship, we'd love to hear from you!