Senior Unix & Solaris Platform Engineer

NTT America, Inc.; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Linux and Solaris engineer, specialist or architect to support and develop enterprise Unix and Linux environments, including secure, stable, and high-performing OS platforms across physical, virtualised, and cloud-connected environments.

The role involves monitoring and administering Linux and Solaris systems, incident resolution, patching, scripting, automation, and contributing to disaster recovery and security hardening efforts.

Qualifications

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, Ubuntu or equivalent distributions.
• Oracle Solaris.
• Shell scripting and automation.
• System performance and capacity management.
• Operating-system security and hardening.
• Networking, DNS, storage and file systems.
• Clustering and high-availability technologies.
• Configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and administer Linux and Solaris systems, across physical, virtualised and cloud environments.
• Resolve operating-system 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 application-integrations issues.
• Support vulnerability remediation, hardening and compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain scripts that automate routine administration.
• Support backup, recovery, high availability and disaster-recovery testing.
• Analyse recurring incidents and implement permanent improvements.
• Maintain configuration records, runbooks and technical documentation.
• At L3 and L4, lead complex troubleshooting and platform-engineering activities.
• At L5, define Unix/Linux platform standards, reference architectures and lifecycle roadmaps.

Skills

Linux administration

Shell scripting

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Linux and Solaris engineer, specialist or architect to support and develop enterprise Unix and Linux environments, including secure, stable, and high-performing OS platforms across physical, virtualised, and cloud-connected environments.

The role involves monitoring and administering Linux and Solaris systems, incident resolution, patching, scripting, automation, and contributing to disaster recovery and security hardening efforts.