Linux & Solaris Platform Engineer – Lead & Architect (L2-L5)

NTT DATA, Inc.; Hove; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, INC. is seeking a Linux and Solaris engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise Unix and Linux environments across physical, virtualised and cloud-connected platforms.

You will monitor, install, patch and harden operating systems, manage users and resources, troubleshoot performance and incidents, and develop automation scripts with Ansible, Puppet or Chef to improve reliability and security. Collaboration with teams to ensure high availability and compliance is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu or equivalent.
• Experience with Solaris operating system.
• Automation scripting across Unix/Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and administer Linux and Solaris systems.
• Resolve OS incidents, alerts, performance issues and service requests.
• Perform OS installation, configuration, patching and upgrades.
• Manage users, permissions, file systems, packages, services and system resources.
• Troubleshoot boot, network, storage, clustering and app-integration issues.
• Support vulnerability remediation, hardening and compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain scripts that automate routine administration.
• Support backup, recovery, HA and DR testing.
• Analyze recurring incidents and implement permanent improvements.
• Maintain configuration records, runbooks and technical documentation.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and platform-engineering activities at L3/L4.
• Define Unix/Linux platform standards and lifecycle roadmaps at L5.

Skills

Linux admin

Solaris admin

Shell scripting

Perf & capacity mgmt

Security hardening

Networking basics

Clustering/HA

Config management

Education

RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA

Linux Foundation certs

SUSE cert

Oracle Solaris cert

Ansible cert

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

NTT DATA, INC. is seeking a Linux and Solaris engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise Unix and Linux environments across physical, virtualised and cloud-connected platforms.

You will monitor, install, patch and harden operating systems, manage users and resources, troubleshoot performance and incidents, and develop automation scripts with Ansible, Puppet or Chef to improve reliability and security. Collaboration with teams to ensure high availability and compliance is essential.