Position: Linux System Administrator
Company: Luxoft
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

As part of our strategic partnership with one of the biggest financial institutions in the World, we are hiring various IT specialists, who will become part of their new IT Service Center..

**Project Description**
The bank is an international organization dedicated to providing financing, advice, and research to developing nations to aid their economic advancement. The bank predominantly acts as an organization that attempts to fight poverty by offering developmental assistance to middle- and low-income countries. Our client is a provider of financial and technical assistance to individual countries around the globe. The bank considers itself a unique financial institution that sets up partnerships to reduce poverty and support economic development.

**Responsibilities**
• Install and maintain up- to-date Operational System software, patch levels, firmware, drivers, and related program products
• Configure and customize software in accordance with site requirements
• Suggest and promote System Changes in accordance with documented SOPs (Standard Operational Procedures)
• Provide continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and first level maintenance of the various application servers, systems and associated peripherals, including adequate follow up on Problem Resolution tracking using the Remedy tool
• Engage in system capacity planning and monitoring and generate health and usage reports of systems
• Participate in "On Call" weekly shifts supporting off hours and weekend activity
• Review and monitor service indicators to meet the agreed upon service levels
• Interact with software and hardware maintenance providers in enforcing adequate levels of support to installed hardware and software
• Provide support to other technical staff in performing account management, disk space management, backups, baseline security administration, testing of system features, and other systems administration activities
• Produce and maintain appropriate documentation and charts describing hardware setups, diagrams, operational procedures, and overall inventory
• Produce weekly reports of activities and operational status of systems under his/her control
• Monitor and review use of systems for Bank access control policy violations in line with Bank's guidelines
• Ensure that the defined decommissioning and disposal procedures are followed for all hardware systems and media
• Report and respond to critical security events and take corrective measures per defined security incident management processes
• Follow and comply with the Bank policies, processes, and procedures
• Participate in audits, as needed, producing necessary documentation, reports, and explanations, and implement corrective and preventive action plans approved by unit managers

**Skills**
Must have

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Role Specific Experience: 2+ years of experience
• System administration experience in Solaris, Readhat, and AIX operating system and hardware configurations
• Experience in managing mission critical OS (AIX, Solaris, Linux) infrastructure, oracle RAC clusters in Redhat in Linux with proven involvement in operations required for stringent uptime service levels
• Experience in configuring and maintaining Highly Available configurations of Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, Volume Managers and File Systems (Veritas FS), OS mirroring and OS replication
• Experience in environments supporting Databases (Oracle and Sybase), including intimacy with DB concepts and operations
• Experience in programming using any one of languages like, C, C++, Python etc.
• Experience in supporting SAN disks, Volume groups, and file systems

Certification Requirements:
• AIX, Linux, or Solaris certification (preferred)

Required Skills/Abilities:
• Knowledge and experience in shell scripting
• Good knowledge in the UNIX internals, data structures and networking implementation in Unix
• Knowledge in the computer algorithms, data structures and optimization concepts in coding
• Ability to modify existing scripts to meet the business requirements
• Excellent knowledge in network trouble shooting
• Knowledge of VMware virtualization technology
• Good understanding of WEB related technologies, including architectural concepts but also basic operational principles of applications servers, web servers, etc.
• Team player with strong technical and user support skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to present and explain technical information to diverse types of audience (management, users, vendor, and technical staff)

Nice to have

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**Languages**
English: C1 Advanced