Senior Open Systems Engineer – Linux/AIX, Automation & HA

Park Place Technologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Park Place Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Support Engineer Level 3 – Open Systems (AIX) to drive the implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise Open Systems infrastructure across managed services and customer environments.

You will support Linux, AIX, Solaris platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian) with HA, DR, and automation tooling, while collaborating across networking, storage, and cloud teams to ensure uptime and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with Open Systems infrastructure across Linux, AIX, and Solaris.
• Experience supporting production managed services environments.
• Knowledge of ITSM operational processes.
• Familiarity with networking, storage, backup, and virtualization technologies.
• Public cloud operational experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced operational support for Open Systems infrastructure and services.
• Perform troubleshooting, diagnostics, remediation, and root cause analysis.
• Support provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning activities.
• Maintain platform stability, resilience, security, and performance.
• Participate in major incidents, escalations, onboarding, and service transition activities.
• Collaborate across networking, storage, backup, cloud, security, and observability teams.
• Contribute to automation and continual service improvement initiatives.
• Linux, AIX, and Solaris systems administration and support.
• Monitoring, analysis, and optimization of performance.
• OS hardening, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
• Backup, recovery, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery support.
• Observability platform administration.

Skills

Linux administration

AIX administration

Solaris administration

Troubleshooting

ITSM understanding

Networking/storage/virtualization

Public cloud operations

Kubernetes/OpenShift administration

Automation tooling (Ansible)

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Education

Red Hat certification

Bachelor’s in IT/CompSci or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Veritas clustering/VV

Job description

Park Place Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Support Engineer Level 3 – Open Systems (AIX) to drive the implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise Open Systems infrastructure across managed services and customer environments.

You will support Linux, AIX, Solaris platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian) with HA, DR, and automation tooling, while collaborating across networking, storage, and cloud teams to ensure uptime and performance.