UNIX Engineer

The UNIX Engineer will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise UNIX platforms within customer and internal environments. The successful candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Solaris and IBM AIX systems and will play a key role in ensuring the availability, security, and performance of business-critical infrastructure.

Working as part of a highly skilled infrastructure team, you will support production environments, contribute to project delivery, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and participate in platform upgrades and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support enterprise UNIX operating systems, primarily Solaris and IBM AIX.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability, taking proactive action to prevent service disruption.
• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade UNIX operating systems and associated software.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure issues.
• Support business-critical production environments while maintaining agreed service levels.
• Implement security best practices, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
• Manage storage, filesystems, logical volumes, and system resources.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, Perl, or Python where appropriate.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Participate in change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
• Work collaboratively with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, Cloud, and Security teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Participate in an on-call support rota where required.