UNIX System Administrator

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a UNIX System Administrator based onsite 2-3 days a week in Bedfordshire for a 7-month contract.

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Main Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise for planning and defining upgrade requirements and helping identify with the administrators' issues when discovered.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards as defined by the IT Organization
• Ensure appropriate response to audit/vulnerability assessment findings and recommendations.
• Perform patch management.
• Participate in meetings with UNIX service customers to define new system requirements and provide recommendations based on experience, company policies and best practices.
• Provide understanding of development team on release issues and patch management windows using Jira and other tracking tools for release/patch management
• Ensure that an up-to-date asset vulnerability inventory for all technology assets.
• Accountable to ensure adherence with Security and Compliance policies and procedures within Technical Operations service scope.
• Ensure addition, modification, or removal of any IT asset in a standard and controlled manner.
• Ensure that CIs are identified, accounted, reported, verified, and audited.

Key Skills:

• Previous experience working as a UNIX System Administrator in an enterprise high availability environment with extensive knowledge of UNIX operating systems - Solaris/RHEL
• Experience in Operating system/Middleware hardening and security audits.
• Experience of using QualysGuard Enterprise suite
• Understanding of CVVS scoring and experience of managing and prioritizing vulnerabilities accordingly
• Experience utilizing ldap/pam for UNIX authentications and access.
• Experience of ITIL processes
• Good understanding of best practice within the Unix technology stack
• Understanding of CVEs and the remediation with a good understanding of security
• Good understanding of:

1. Configuration parameters in Apache, Tomcat
2. Administrative security settings in AIX, Solaris, RHEL
3. Common infrastructure, including Active Directory, GPO and Kerberos

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.