Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer

Kelly Services, founded by William R. Kelly in 1946, is an international workforce solutions provider for customers in a variety of industries in 40 countries. Kelly Services specializes in Recruitment Projects within IT, Finance, Accounting, Multi-Lingual, Sales and Marketing, Engineering and Science. In addition Kelly also offers an array of Consulting and Outsourcing services. Kelly Services employs approx. 500,000 employees annually around the globe.
For our Client, worldwide investment company we are looking for candidates ready to take the position of:

Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer

Location
Poznań

Job Description
This Sr. Systems Engineer will be reporting to the IT Manager within Platform Engineering.
This senior member of the Platform Engineering team will be required to directly influence the future direction of global server technology.

Main duties:

- Lead efforts to plan, establish and continuously improve the server refresh process
- Drive innovations in server technology by staying current with new vendor offerings.
- Factor in the disaster recovery requirements into server refresh recommendation to insure all SLA’s are honored.
- Create infrastructure solutions for server refresh efforts and for other business requests outside of the server refresh program.
- Participate in the infrastructure solution peer-review process and ensures alignment and integration of the solutions with all areas of IT Service Management.
- Interface with various lines of business and IT departments (application, systems management, engineering, architecture, technical staff, etc.) in support of business requirements and service-level objectives.
- Work with the Storage and Network engineers to insure any refresh or upgrade plans for technology in the storage and network areas are factored into the server refresh recommendations.


Skills & Experience

- Expertise in mid-range servers and operating systems utilizing the following technologies: SUN Solaris 10 LDOMS and containers, IBM AIX , LPARS, VIO and PowerVM, RedHat Linux 4 & 5, Windows 2003 & 2008, IBM or HP Blades, SUN E and T series, IBM pSeries
- Experience with virtual servers on Intel using either Vmware or Microsoft Hyper-V in a large scale deployment
- Experience with deploying solutions on EMC SAN and NetApp NAS and SAN technologies.
- Experience with server migration and OS deployment tools such as IBM Director, HP Insight Manager and Bladelogic.
- Experience in creating documentation for solutions and developing runbooks for operational support staff as necessary
- Ability to work autonomously within a team, self drive, enthusiasm and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and demands, ability to manage pressures and stress in the face of opposition, ambiguity and pressing deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Experience with working in a global and distributed team
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred
- At least 7 years in a similar position

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