Technical Engineer - Unix (AHS)

Job description

Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with pro forma annual revenue of circa € 12 billion and circa 100,000 employees in 72 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group provides Consulting & Systems Integration services, Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data & Cyber-security solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, the Group works with clients across different business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation.

Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and Worldline.

UNIX Technical Specialist

This is full time role located in Stevenage.

The role is for a Technical Account Lead Unix engineer to provide support for a Unix infrastructure, primarily supporting Linux both physical and virtual (VMware) based systems, with some support of Legacy Solaris systems. This is mainly a BAU role but could require some Project type Server build work.

Key responsibilities:

Standard Base Support Definition:

12 * 5 Incident & Problem Management On-site at ATOS office in Stevenage.

Flexible support working a 37 hour week as part of a support team covering 7am till 7pm Monday to friday & a willingness to provide some out of hours work (scheduled changes & patching work) Resolution of user incident & problems requiring expert UNIX attention.

· Completion of client change control tasks.
· Security strategy & maintenance - Installation of any required 3rd Party products & O/S hardening.
· O/S maintenance - Maintain system to supported releases of operating system - Installation of O/S fixes in a cumulative manner, or piecemeal as a result of a particular problem & implementation of regular housekeeping routines.
· Hardware Maintenance of UNIX systems – liaising with appropriate 3rd Parties to ensure all hardware issues are successfully resolved within the agreed SLAs.
· Proactive Patch Management for all supported systems including developing & applying a regular patching policy.
· Capacity Management, Performance Analysis & System Tuning - Performance data collection & reporting with recommendation of hardware or software alterations to improve systems performance - On-going exercise.
· Maintenance of best practice - Systems configuration complying with best practice dictated by the providers, & on-going maintenance of the systems documentation.
· Security Administration - Creating, Deleting & Altering user profiles on supported servers, ensuring that the security strategy in place is adhered to, as well as flagging all security breaches.
· Defining thresholds/message filtering/rules for automation monitoring that will enable proactive management of the UNIX systems.
· O/S configuration for additional servers – Server installation & configuration to the client's specific requirement.
· Installation, customization, configuration & software maintenance of Business application

Provide any UNIX Server reports as requested by the customer. This will typical include:

· Disk space allocated to various Servers
· Availability of the Servers including outages

Technical requirements:

· Linux Distributions (Redhat/Centos/Oracle Linux - Advantageous)

· Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11

Desirable Criteria

· Knowledge of RedHat
· Knowledge of VMware

Compensation and Benefits
A great incentive to join the Atos team is the market competitive range of benefits that the Company provides. These include a competitive salary, as well as a number of core benefits, such as; 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays; private medical insurance, which all new starters will be automatically opted into; an attractive stakeholder pension scheme, with employer contributions of up to 10% basic salary; Life Assurance; Income Protection; Personal Accident Insurance; and Season Ticket Loan. In addition to this Atos operates a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to purchase discounted products and services. Additionally, comprehensive training and development is delivered in a variety of ways, leading to accreditation if required.

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