Senior Server Operations Engineer
Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Management Level
G
The Equiniti Group is looking for a Senior Server Operations Engineer to help us deploy and manage our Global Infrastructure hosted in multiple data centres and cloud.
We are searching for a passionate engineer to join our team to help us evaluate, implement, deploy and support technologies that enable our users to collaborate with UK & US Customers. The motivated candidate should have a firm understanding of IT System Infrastructure with good knowledge and understanding of server infrastructure (Windows & Linux), Fileservers, Security fundamentals, network devices such as load balancers and Firewalls.
Responsibilities and skills required include:
Proactively maintain and develop all operational infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service.
Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
Good knowledge and experience in managing Linux: RedHat, CentOS, Debian, etc.
Good knowledge and experience in managing Microsoft Infrastructures (Windows Server, Active Directory, RDS) and Hypervisor technology (Hyper-V and VMware)
Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, certificates, hot fixes and on servers, workstations, and network hardware
Awareness of vulnerability management systems and security remediation.
Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
Expert in Powershell, Shell, Perl, and/or Python, terraform scripting
Strong grasp on configuration management tools, such as Puppet and Chef, Ansible.
Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git, etc.
Public cloud skills and awareness (eg Microsoft Azure, AWS) will be added advantage, particular with infrastructure as code skills.
Excellent troubleshooting skills: Able to solve authentication issues, troubleshoot connectivity issues with servers and certificates.
Experience with integrating applications and providing support related to infrastructure.
Enhance and improve existing infrastructure through automation and reporting.
Take handoff of problems from SME leads and work them independently to root cause.
Own Root Cause Analysis and Problem Management for Infrastructure issues.
Create and maintain system documentation for domain technologies, including installation, configuration, and appropriate troubleshooting steps.
Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.
Skills, Attributes and Behaviour:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and behaviour.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Willing to work in On-Call as required
Relevant and current certifications will be considered an advantage
Should have process orientated approach.
Desire to learn and ability to implement the learnings swiftly.
Should be a Good Team player, highly motivated and ambitious.
Ability to manage work as per the targets agreed.
Ability to work in a virtual and remote environment.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer ofemploymentis subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.
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