NielsenIQ Hiring for Unix Admin_Engineer at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

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REF20977P

About this Job:
As an Infrastructure Linux Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining highly critical production and non-production environments catered across multiple data centers. You will be expected to function as the highest level of technical support and escalation for high severity Issues and requests related to CentOS & OEL. You will take the role of Subject Matter Expert in an automated and general Linux environment.

Rationale:
The Infrastructure Linux Engineer should have sufficient troubleshooting knowledge & experience in working with Linux systems connected to SAN/NAS storage systems, and production databases. Knowledge on networking fundamentals, current security concepts, as well as ESX & UCS hypervisors, to effectively cooperate with Infrastructure Network and Security teams to deliver solutions on a wide scale covering all the infrastructure environment aspects. Should be well rounded in all data center technologies to maintain the environment healthy.

Responsibilities:
Work with multiple stakeholders in a technical bridge call to solve the problems related to UNIX within timelines to meet SLAs.
Installing and upgrading UNIX system software on servers across multiple datacenters as per Organization SOP documentation
Setting up and maintaining UNIX user accounts and access management systems.
Implementing network and Server system policies.
Must have Knowledge of Cisco UCS Platform
Detecting and troubleshooting software and hardware issues.
Responding to user requests and OS errors.
Monitoring the performance of the system and server.
Creating backup and recovery policies.
Setting up and monitoring security policies.
Applying patches and upgrades when necessary.
Work with multiple Infra teams and Stakeholders and complete all requests within timelines to meet the SLAs (service level agreements).
Knowledge of Change Management & Service Request Management
Decommissioning Unix Servers following Change Management Process
Independently Handle critical issues related to Unix OS & H/W and fix them.
Make sure to address the critical & high priority alerts well on time to prevent system failures and production impact
Ongoing enhancement and improvement of existing automated infrastructure processes
Create and maintain detailed documentation of new and existing automated workflow processes, scripted procedures, configurations, settings and recovery plans
Work closely with infrastructure, application support and other groups to arrive at Permanent solutions to problem tickets and implement the identified solutions.
Work with other team members and help to improve overall technical competencies and stay up to date with changing technology needs.
Identify the opportunities and plan to automate the repeated manual tasks in infrastructure
Work closely with the Global Support Team, development, and infrastructure- operations teams to support the automation of the infrastructure

Qualifications

Qualifications

3 to 6 years equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering and administration with specialized skills in systems engineering, with knowledge on infrastructure automation.
Must have Advanced knowledge in navigating and troubleshooting Centos operating systems and platforms including Oracle Enterprise Linux, Cisco UCS, and VMware.
Hands-on experience in enterprise infrastructure automation platforms such as PowerShell, Python, BASH, etc. Certificate for any of the platforms is a plus.
Complete knowledge change / incident and problem management
Knowledge in enterprise infrastructure configuration tools like Ansible / Puppet
Complete understanding of how infra components like servers, database, network, storage, firewalls, AD, DNS, monitoring etc. connect and co-relate with each other.
Understand cloud technologies and infrastructure virtualization.
Have very good verbal and written communication skills (English) in both technical and non-technical communications.
Understanding of DevOps process and Agile development cycle with Continuous Integration / Delivery (CI/CD). Experience with CI/CD platforms is a plus.

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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