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| Unix Principal Solutions Enginer |
| UNIX |
| Negotiable |
| + Benefits |
| Surrey |
United Kingdom
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| Permanent |
| 09/02/2010 14:45:00 |
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| Company Description |
| Our client is a leading specialist in the provision of managed services solutions for operating Internet and enterprise applications. We currently manage business and brand critical applications for 134 of Europe’s leading companies including bmi, Regus, easycar, Princes Foods, St. James’s Place and Travelodge.
Our services allow our Clients to selectively outsource their IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to their business. Through a commitment to operational excellence, we manage, secure and optimise the performance of our Clients applications irrespective of the physical location of the infrastructure.
The company is financially strong and we have earned the industry’s leading accreditations ISO9001, ISO27001, ISO20000 and is an HP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a SAP Adaptive IT Hosting provider. In addition we are one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK’s Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years and have been voted VMware’s EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year 2008 and 2009.
We have an incredibly diverse, talented and committed team of people whose focus is squarely on working together to keep critical applications running 24 hours a day, so that our Clients can focus on building success in their own field.
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Our client is a leading specialist in the provision of managed services solutions for operating Internet and enterprise applications. We currently manage business and brand critical applications for 134 of Europe’s leading companies including bmi, Regus, easycar, Princes Foods, St. James’s Place and Travelodge.
Our services allow our Clients to selectively outsource their IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to their business. Through a commitment to operational excellence, we manage, secure and optimise the performance of our Clients applications irrespective of the physical location of the infrastructure.
The company is financially strong and we have earned the industry’s leading accreditations ISO9001, ISO27001, ISO20000 and is an HP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a SAP Adaptive IT Hosting provider. In addition we are one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK’s Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years and have been voted VMware’s EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year 2008 and 2009.
We have an incredibly diverse, talented and committed team of people whose focus is squarely on working together to keep critical applications running 24 hours a day, so that our Clients can focus on building success in their own field.
Reporting to the Solutions Engineer Team Leader you will be working as part of a team responsible for technical planning, build configuration planning, building, configuring and testing solutions. Also responsible for deploying and integrating solutions into the live environment, this will involve close working with “our client” operations team.
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• Ownership of build configuration documentation relevant to Unix deliveries, working closely with Client infrastructure architecture teams
• Reviewing pre sale solution architecture documents for new opportunities
• Assisting Solution Architecture team on presale engagements on a limited basis
• Technical delivery planning – working with project manager to plan out complex IT infrastructure deployments
• Act as technical delivery lead for complex Unix based projects
• Provide a named client technical delivery contact for delivery projects, providing excellent client service
• Solution Configuration design – planning out configuration variables ready for installation
• Solutions Build – server hardware, firmware, service packs, operating systems and variety of server application software etc
• Testing configured solutions – confirming that the solution is correctly built prior to go live
• Asset Management – ensuring that the assets are correctly recorded, tracked and managed
• Knowledge retention – feedback to the relevant internal and external contacts and documenting solutions
Person:
At least 5 years Linux experience preferable background around build, configuration and support. Solid understanding of Solaris desirable, proven ability to pickup new technology quickly. Installation and configuration of software and applications on Sun/HP/Dell and VMware platforms. Exposure to veritas clustering and general load balancing. Ideally, previous experience of full solution functionality, failover and resilience testing. Experience of Apache httpd server, Tomcat essential and MySQL would be a nice to have, along with San connectivity and multi-pathing.
Excellent demonstrable experience of Linux (and ideally Solaris), server technologies and applications. A good understanding of multi-tier web infrastructures.
Excellent communicator and strong client facing / requirements gathering skills
Confident, team player and a self starter
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