UNIX Systems Engineer
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Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Company Details
Company URL: Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale IA and Wilmington DE BTS provides innovative and customer-focused IT solutions to the majority of WRBCs 60 operating units across the globe. BTSs wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible.
Driven by a commitment to collaboration BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand but proactively plan for the Whats Next in our industry and beyond.
With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future -- leaders who genuinely care about growing not only their team members but themselves and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles youd never known existed. Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions.
Berkley Technology Services: Right Team Right Technology Simple and Secure.
Responsibilities
The Unix Systems Engineer I is responsible for the deployment and support of UNIX Server based operating systems. Regular job responsibilities will involve making design decisions developing team standards and documentation that is based on the goals of project initiatives and/or changing business needs. The Unix Systems Engineer I will be responsible for: supporting a variety of UNIX technologies including AIX and Linux supporting our AAP platform (Ansible Automation) as well as writing Ansible and python scripts completion of customer and team driven projects and resolving incidents requests and tasks routed through Service Now. This includes participating in a 24/7 On Call rotation for Priority Level 3 and higher service calls.
- Understanding daily administration of Linux servers AIX and SAN based mass storage assignment.
- Able to configure integrate maintain debug performance issues analyze recovery and address user issues on standard Unix Platforms.
- Familiarity around ESX VCenter Tasks and Nutanix AHV including; Deployments Cloning Migrations and API Calls.
- Provide Scripting support and scripting abilities within Perl Python and Standard Shell commands.
- Provide support and administration of IBM Power 8 9 10 and 11 Series Servers.
- Understand IBM Virtualization layer including HMCs and IBM Power Series Frame deployments.
- Ability to troubleshoot and provide Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning for Linux and AIX environments.
- Utilize IAC (Infrastructure as Code) by writing Ansible playbooks and other languages as needed
- Anticipate mitigate identify troubleshoot report and resolve hardware software and firmware problems on servers.
- Ensure the integrity security and availability of all UNIX-based enterprise servers
- Maintain teams documentation for all support processes and procedures
- Responsible for working with the team on daily operational issues by working directly on incidents reported through the Service Desk system.
- Maintain and constantly improve server performance reliability and security in compliance with BTS Standards and Policies
- Support the deployment of new systems in response to incoming customer requests and organizational requirements.
- Participate in new system deployments technical exchange meetings and document reviews.
- Operating system/utility software installation testing implementation maintenance and configuration management.
Qualifications
- 3 years reasonable UNIX platforms/vendor experience
- Linux Server Technology support for a minimum of 3 years
- 1 yr Experience using Ansible and Python.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container technology
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Information Systems or a related discipline. Equivalent experience and/or alternative qualifications will be considered.
- Working knowledge of High Availability and Load balancing technologies
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- VMware
- NFS
- Solaris
- Linux
- Perl
- SAN
- Shell Scripting
- Chef
- openSUSE
- Puppet
- Oracle
About Company
Berkley is a leader in commercial lines insurance, with over 60+ specialized businesses - each with deep expertise in an industry, product, or regional niche.
