The Company:
Our client is one of Ireland's leading retail and SME banks. Their focus is centred on ensuring we deliver what our customers, colleagues and communities need to be successful.
Your Role:
This is a role that can be based in either Cork or Dublin and is on a hybrid basis.
Our client has embarked on a significant digital transformation programme. This will lead to an enhanced customer experience, through re-development of the delivery channels and the ongoing evolution of the bank's infrastructure and operations in order to provide cost-effective, secure and resilient services to their customers.
To support and enable this transformation an exciting opportunity has become available for a Linux Engineer working as part of the Distributed Infrastructure Team. You will play a key role in the Linux team supporting multiple platforms.
The role will require you to provide support on multiple technologies providing best in class support.
This is a cross functional role requiring the individual to work seamlessly and collaboratively across the Enterprise IT Services function, Group Technology as a whole, and the wider business to achieve the required outcomes.
Your Team:
The Linux Team forms part of broader Enterprise IT Services. You will work as part of an effective, innovation focused and committed team. This team is a growing team supporting technologies such as RedHat, Solaris, HPUX, Zabbix . The role holder will be part of an engaged and empowered team who execute their activities to a high standard, and work seamlessly with all business and technical teams to support the organisation's transformational and resilience objectives.
Your Responsibilities:
Strategy & Delivery
- Support the deployment and implementation of Redhat, Solaris and HPUX Instances across the organisation with a focus on ensuring the resilience and stability of the tooling.
- Maintain the ongoing service and cyber security integrity of the in-scope technologies including patch and Vulnerability management.
- Implementation and support of strategic projects that meet the emerging needs of the organisation
- Drive the delivery of resilient solutions with high availability deployments
- Leverage available tooling to simplify and streamline the delivery of IT change while developing and promoting appropriate risk mitigating techniques for colleagues.
- Act as the line of support between the business teams and Infrastructure teams when troubleshooting issues
- Liaise with project teams, change management office, and technical and production support teams to manage implementations.
- Drive the automation first strategy within Enterprise IT Services eliminating repetitive tasks and enabling the focus on higher value activities.
- Support the design and delivery of a world class Infrastructure
Lead an inspiring Culture
- Support a culture of open discussion with active contributions from the entire team.
- Enable an environment that ensures psychological safety for the team.
- Foster an open culture where the team feels able to contribute to the betterment of the team and the capabilities at every level.
- Drive ownership and empowerment across the team ensuring they team are fully aware of their accountabilities and responsibilities.
Requirements:
Essential
- Experience in a similar role supporting a large Linux environment.
- In-depth knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux. Knowledge of Solaris, HP-UX.
- In-depth knowledge of Bash scripting & Ansible or similar automation tool
- In-depth knowledge of RedHat Satellite
- Experience with VMware
- Proven ability to identify and diagnose technical and architectural issues, to ensure that these solutions are implemented to best practice standards.
- Accuracy and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet timelines.
- Ability to work well with teams and build strong working relationships.
- Innovative, with a strong focus on continuously improving service to clients.
- Self-starter, highly motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
- Good communication and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Enthusiastic, committed and proactive approach to problem solving.
Desired
- Industry / Professional Certification (ITIL, RedHat, Others)
- BSc. In Computer Science or Equivalent
Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.
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