Infrastructure Engineer Linux

Unum Ireland Ltd.

Carlow

Infrastructure Engineer Linux Unum Carlow is an ambitious, innovative Technology Centre working as a global team to drive digital transformation. Unum is one of the world's leading employee benefits providers. We have a great opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our team of talented IT professionals. If you thrive working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment Unum is for U. General Summary: Individuals in the Infrastructure Engineer position are responsible for the installation, configuration, and maintenance of one or several of cloud/windows/Linux/networking infrastructure technologies in an enterprise environment. The team has overall technical responsibility for the implementation, modification, enhancement, and ongoing support of operating system, as well as the software tools required to manage the relevant infrastructure. They are accountable for providing technical assistance for existing and future infrastructure technologies in their designated field. Duties include ensuring the availability of applications, assisting in configuring all new implementations, and developing processes and procedures for ongoing management of our enterprise computing environment. They are also responsible for ensuring system component performance is at optimum levels and for evaluating and approving measures to correct variances. They must possess critical technical knowledge of how business applications function in the operating environment and how they have been configured and customized to meet specific business and company objectives. They will also participate as a technical resource in medium to large-scale projects. This position frequently collaborates with other technical and business applications’ personnel to acquire or provide technical direction. Specific areas of expertise may be: operating system(s), storage management, agents/instrumentation, systems management, security, network, web administration, database management, automation, and application technical stacks. Additionally, this position may require working knowledge of multiple computing platforms (including physical, virtual, and cloud.)  Principal Duties and Responsibilities. • Performs tool administrative tasks and provide application support for our platform. • Reviews infrastructure security holes, applies patches, creates console roles and reviews, and creates and installs security packs as needed. • Implements an enterprise monitoring environment using relevant technologies: (Alert Site / Pager Duty / Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Azure monitoring products, Insert networking monitoring tools, etc.) • Establishes foundation for future implementations and automation requirements in the infrastructure, identifies opportunities for automation and develops scalable solutions. • Develops monitoring, dashboards, escalations and alerts. • Develops and follows incident management and change management processes; creates run-books. • Participates in on-call rotations for emergency events and escalations. • Works with the operations team lead to remediate issues. • Utilizes verbal and written communication skills to maintain accurate system documentation and provides training as required. • Ensures system or component performance meets expectations; monitors actions to correct variance or improve efficiency. • Resolves complex system problems affecting business applications and computing services users. • Provides on-call support. • Develops and maintains technical drawings, operational procedures and guides, maintains hardware and software inventories. • Performs other duties as assigned. Job Specifications and skills. • Bachelors degree in computer science, or equivalent relevant business experience. • Has 2+ years of related work experience. • Industry certification is a plus. • Possesses highly developed technical expertise in multiple key operating/networking system or subsystem areas. • Able to operate independently in developing and implementing the most complex technical solutions. • Where applicable, demonstrates experience supporting in-house developed business applications and working directly with application development teams. • Able to collaborate with other IT groups for requirements on the topic of expertise. Unum and its family of businesses offer competitive pay and an excellent benefits package, world-class training and development, and a culture built on employee ideas. Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to person’s race, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, family status, membership of the travelling community, gender or sexual orientation. Come join us if you’re interested in working in an exciting and challenging environment for a company that is on the move!.

672 days ago