Linux Engineers (Redhat Engineers)

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Key Accountabilities

The Senior Linux Engineer reports into the Linux Team Leader. This role holds accountability for Linux Infrastructure service projects and production support to the BPS payment gateway services Smartpay -S and Smartpay -B.

· Ownership and leadership of technical resolution for high severity production incidents and Problems

· Adherence to Barclays standards for change control, Linux security and Linux patterns.

· Take part in the technical team during disaster recovery and business continuity exercises

· Define operational procedures and documentation

· Provide on-call rota support where required

· Lead and define network delivery requirements for Service Improvement Unit initiatives

· Design and lead internal projects and deliveries aligned with the Linux roadmap

· Support the architect and product teams in developing the Linux roadmap.

· Identify new technologies and services to transform the Linux service offering

· Mentor the global technical team to build a high-performing technical delivery environment

Person Specification

· Expert knowledge of administration of RedHat products, especially RHEL 6 & 7 and Satellite 6

· Knowledge of the ITIL framework, vocabulary and best practices

· Expert in working with Vendor technical support staff, including vendor development teams

· Expertise in defining technical plans and procedures

· Expert in Configuration Management with a strong background in Scripting.

· Expert skills and a desire to automate functions

· Experience of RHEL and Apache performance tuning and capacity management on critical customer-facing systems and high-volume payments services

· Experience of working in a highly regulated environment and the associated processes and tools

· Have a strong working knowledge of Barclays infrastructure components and the processes required to maintain the infrastructure

· Have a good understanding of the business areas and application / service components used and an appreciation of applications from both a technical and business perspective.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

RHCSE minimum - RHEL 6

Proven experience with Automating operational processes and build processes using tools like Chef, ansible or Puppet

Strong storage configuration skills with NFS and iSCSI. Must have a firm grasp of best practice, performance tuning, troubleshooting

Strong emphasis on CHEF skills, including writing deployment and test scripts

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

Good working knowledge of Apache and JBOSS 6

Experience supporting Java applications

Strong skills in developing monitoring solutions

Experience working with cryptographic services and content