Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
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Job Description
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services including banking leasing securities credit cards and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFGs shares trade on the Tokyo Nagoya and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas SMBC Group has a presence in the US Canada Ireland Mexico Brazil Chile Colombia and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate institutional and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organizations extensive global network. The Groups operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. SMBC Capital Markets Inc. SMBC MANUBANK JRI America Inc. SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc. Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A. and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co. Ltd.
This is a hybrid role requiring the successful candidate to attend our Tralee office.
Occasional On Call Rotation (Weekend)
Role Description
SMBC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer who has a strong passion for Enterprise Systems and is interested in building a career at a fast growing and reputable Bank. The Senior Systems Engineer will design development automate test and maintain Linux servers and Openshift container Platform both on-prem and in the cloud. They will be given opportunity to act as both an individual contributor and an integrator working together with team members and technologies required to fulfil projects and technical addition the role will require high level of skills to troubleshoot support and maintain on-prem Enterprise Systems Infrastructure and Cloud Automation Services used by the Bank.
This role will report to the Vice President Systems Engineer
Role Objectives: Delivery
- Works closely with architecture engineering and security to implement new products and upgrade existing infrastructure.
- Prepares installs and implements operating software and associated components.
- Plans prepares and applies maintenance fixes to system software and firmware as required.
- Managing Red Hat OpenShift and AKS clusters to support scalable applications.
- Debugs and solves problems associated with Unix and Linux servers in production and test environments.
- Works on architecture and engineering and security projects to secure Linux or AIX operating system deployment in production.
- Assists in evaluating new hardware and software and develops creative solutions to complex technological challenges.
- Develops and maintains scripts to automate tasks and deployment.
- Develops test plans for implementing new software or new releases of software.
- Tunes system software for peak performance and availability.
- Provides end users and developers with support including off shift and on call support.
- Provides technical training for information technology personnel as needed.
- Tests and implements hardware and software upgrades and if necessary works off shift to implement changes with minimal downtime.
- Maintains Linux Unix disaster recovery plan and actively participates in technology and business recovery activities.
- Discover opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change evolve improve and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes/procedures.
Qualifications and Skills
- Install configure and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers Red Hat Satellite.
- Write and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code leveraging Ansible and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms.
- Assist with migrations to cloud ensuring best practices are followed and architecture is compliant with company standards.
- Participate in the implementation of monitoring systems for event monitoring alerting and metrics.
- Expert level in troubleshooting and support of Red Hat Linux Red Hat Satellite
- Experience with writing scripts using Bash
- Experience with Docker Kubernetes or Open Shift
- Experience with GitHub for code management
- Experience with Ansible/Ansible Automation Platform
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a self-motivated and disciplined approach to learning and working.
- Ability to work in a team environment and demonstrate leadership skills when needed.
- Possess a highly developed sense of personal accountability and follow-through with an ability to effectively prioritize multiple personal tasks projects and goals.
- 3 years of experience highly desired
SMBCs employees participate in a hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home as well as from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process please let us know at
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
