Technical Specialist Advisory, Linux - Unix Expert

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Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Scotiabank’s Global Technology Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) Operations - Infrastructure Support’s Unix Infrastructure team is responsible for providing infrastructure support on servers running Red Hat Linux & Solaris operating systems for various mission-critical business applications.

As part of our team, you will provide systems-level support for over 3,000 mission-critical application production and non-production servers. Your responsibilities include technical troubleshooting and providing solutions to complex issues, also work on capacity planning and providing recommendations. This role will include project work and interacting with multiple stakeholders. You will participate in semi-annual Disaster Recovery (DR) fail-over testing regularly as outlined in the bank's policies and procedures to ensure DR functionality.

There is occasional overtime for after-hours or weekend work. Also, rotational 24x7 on-call support is required.

You thrive on multi-tasking and prioritizing work to meet deadlines in a large complex environment.

You embrace 2nd level UNIX support on production issues, participating in Incident Management / Problem Management / Change Management; and working on security vulnerabilities as part of the audit and compliance requirements.

You are eager to work on Solaris, Linux operating systems running on Oracle Sparc and x86 HW products, and virtual hosts including LDOM’s, VMware and Cloud.

You also want to work with Veritas Clustering/Storage Foundation, Red Hat clustering, Solaris ZFS (Zettabyte File System) and EMC/Hitachi SAN storage products.

You are keen to monitor the environment and identify any issues that could be of a risk and then rectify them.

You enjoy working on automation by using Ansible for implementing changes, patching, fixing security vulnerabilities, and writing scripts for system monitoring.

You take pride in aiding with project management functions during all stages of requirements rollout including assessment, planning, initiation, implementation, and management.

You like the challenge to assist in the identification, development and maintenance of policies and procedures that are relevant to the proper operational functions of the Unix infrastructure.

As part of your “DNA”, you are detail-oriented, proactive, have an eagerness to learn and thrive on challenges.

You are willing to mentor and coach more junior members of the team sharing your knowledge to grow the team through the individuals.

You can demonstrate excellent communication (verbal/written) skills.

You have at least 10+ years of hands‑on technical working experience with the system administration, recovery, configuration & troubleshooting of Solaris (versions 10/11) and Red Hat Linux (versions 7/8) Operating Systems.

You have at least 10+ years of hands‑on technical working experience in troubleshooting with the Oracle Sparc and x86 hardware products, and where necessary know when to engage the vendor.

You have at least 10+ years of hands‑on technical working experience with the configuration, administration, builds and troubleshooting of Veritas/Symantec Storage Foundation (VSF) & Veritas/Symantec Cluster Services.

You have at least 10+ years of hands‑on technical working experience with Network Information Service (NIS)/IDM, Network File System (NFS), Solaris Zones & Solaris Logical Domains (LDOM’s).

You can demonstrate a very good technical working knowledge on SAN / NAS storage file systems and Virtualization platforms/technologies.

You possess very good scripting capabilities (e.g., shell, perl) to complete day to day UNIX tasks; plus, the use of Ansible automation.

You have good problem‑solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills.

You can work well under pressure with time constraints and can prioritize competing priorities appropriately.

You have completed a…