Linux / Solaris specialist L2–L5

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The Linux and Solaris engineer, specialist or architect supports and develops enterprise Unix and Linux environments. The role is responsible for maintaining secure, stable and high-performing operating-system platforms across physical, virtualised and cloud-connected environments.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and administer Linux and Solaris systems.
• Resolve operating-system incidents, alerts, performance issues and service requests.
• Perform operating-system installation, configuration, patching and upgrades.
• Manage users, permissions, file systems, packages, services and system resources.
• Troubleshoot boot, network, storage, clustering and application-integration issues.
• Support vulnerability remediation, hardening and compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain scripts that automate routine administration.
• Support backup, recovery, high availability and disaster-recovery testing.
• Analyse recurring incidents and implement permanent improvements.
• Maintain configuration records, runbooks and technical documentation.
• At L3 and L4, lead complex troubleshooting and platform-engineering activities.
• At L5, define Unix/Linux platform standards, reference architectures and lifecycle roadmaps.

Technical knowledge

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, Ubuntu or equivalent distributions.
• Oracle Solaris.
• Shell scripting and automation.
• System performance and capacity management.
• Operating-system security and hardening.
• Networking, DNS, storage and file systems.
• Clustering and high-availability technologies.
• Configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef.

Relevant certifications

• Red Hat RHCSA, RHCE or RHCA.
• Linux Foundation certifications.
• SUSE certification.
• Oracle Solaris certification.
• Ansible or equivalent automation certification.

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