Solaris Engineer (Security Cleared)

Telford, Shropshire
Lorien

Engineer (Solaris)

Remote (Location Flexible)

Do you specialize in the support and implementation of Solaris in enterprise environments? Do you have an aptitude for problem solving, and technical leadership during Solaris infrastructure migration projects? Do you want to work with a Customer and help support IT services that are critical to the economic UK’s prosperity? Do you want to work with committed people, deliver service excellence to customers and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction? This is your world and your opportunity to shape it for the better.

We are looking for engineers to join our customer’s Data Centre Exit team. As part of a small team within a large Data Centre Exit Programme, your role will be to work client-side to deliver migration support services and to make changes to Solaris platforms hosting IT services critical to our Customer.

Key responsibilities include –

• Backup and restore of system images and volumes,
• Stop start services,
• Removal and clean-up of tooling
• Map storage volumes to VMs and map VLANs to VMs
• Revert the service to the source location
• Quiesce the service in the source location

You will be empowered to identity better ways of doing things and to share your ideas. You will be supported by a Service implementation Manager, who will look after your wellbeing and ensure you receive work that befits your skills. Most of the project work is expected to be in normal hours, but you could also be offered to work out of hours.

Your experience –

• At least 5-10 years’ experience of supporting (2nd to 3rd Line) Solaris Servers and platforms within large scale infrastructures (1000+ Servers).
• Significant Solaris 10 & 11 & Oracle hardware experience
• Ops Center experience
• UNIX Scripting skills
• Knowledge of Linux (SUSE, RHEL or OEL)
• Good understanding of Storage, Networking & Cloud computing technologies
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal communication.
• Have proven problem solving abilities.

Your knowledge/skills –

Certifications:

• Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration (Or the Solaris 10 equivalent)
• Oracle Solaris 11 System Advanced Administration (Or the Solaris 10 equivalent)

Non-technical skills and experience-

• Remote employment from 1 July 2023 to 10/12/23 (initial engagement period)
• SC cleared preferred
• You need to be willing to work OOH and at weekends on a regular basis
• You need to have good customer communication skills
• You need to be willing to work to project committed timescales
• You need to be a team player. Patience and a sense of humour will be beneficial!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age