Unix Systems Engineer

We are currently looking for a Unix Systems Engineer to join our Telecommunication client in Amsterdam area. The project has a long-term character, with an estimated duration of 2+ year.

For this position, fulltime and onsite availability is required.

You will be involved with a large Datacenter Transformation project

• DC consolidation and move of old Datacenters into a new Datacenter;

• Delivery of software defined data centre with hybrid cloud services, automated through central orchestration;

• Implementing new way of working as a result of orchestration and workflow automation;

Responsibilities

• Proven experience as a skilled Unix Systems Engineer who has undertaken consolidation and migration activities for AIX and UNIX;

• Knowledge of core systems that may be interpendent with UNIX;

• Provide migration recommendations and guidance to migration planning; working with Migration Schedulers and Execution Leads;

• Provide input into to-be state for migrated UNIX physical servers, validate existing R6 assessment and plan for execution;

• Technically plan and execute the migration of UNIX (AIX, Solaris) physical servers to updated hardware;

• Undertake logical decommissioning activities associated with UNIX physical servers which have been migrated;

• Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to ensure the migration minimises risk and impact to the business;

Requirements

• 2+ years proficiency with installing and administering operating Systems including AIX, Solaris, RHEL Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux;

• 2+ years proficiency of Virtualization Tooling including VMware, Oracle Virtual Machine, Solaris LDOMs & Zones;

• Awareness of Logical Volume disk management (Solaris Volume Manager & ZFS);

• Awareness of security, hardening and patching;

A few company characteristics

• The organization is leading in its field;

• A highly international work environment, with colleagues of over 50 nationalities;

• Company benefits like great lunches and an in-house gym;

Does the above spark you interest? Then please provide me with you recent CV and contact details, so that we can discuss this vacancy more detailed!