Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Equinix

• Reporting to the IT Infrastructure Manager, the Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Linux, Storage, BigFix) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, administration, patching, day-to-day operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related data center infrastructure

• Ensure Unix environment is patched up to date and compliance with IT security standard
• Manage SCA (Security Compliance Analytics) and publish compliance report
• The IT team is responsible for the Development Production environments which house Unix and Windows servers
• The environment consists of physical and virtual servers across multiple data centres
• Working within a framework of established procedures and adheres to appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines, contributing to the creation/updating of these frameworks where appropriate
• The Senior Infrastructure Engineer may be asked to undertake or coordinate system development tasks to include design, integration and formal testing, coordinating transition into live environment

Responsibilities

• Plans, installs, solves problems, and maintains UNIX, BigFix infrastructure and associated systems

• Plans, installs, solves problems and supports physical and virtual servers for the purpose of ensuring reliability of systems and services across a global estate

• Analyses, identifies and corrects technology issues, resolving operational issues and restoring services

• Documents procedures and troubleshooting techniques related to systems, software and hardware; develops and reviews documentation

• Unix SME and POC for Tier1 support

• Acts as a liaison to vendors and technical-support to resolve complex problems

• Coordinates and implements corrective measures that may involve site visits, telephone assistance or remote management

• Work on Infrastructure related projects

• Advises and assists in the development of policies and procedures

• Monitors and maintains software licensing, documents, and records for the purpose of ensuring compliance with policies and standards

• Contributes to plans, implements and maintains backup and DR procedures to ensure rapid recovery for mission-critical systems, and services

• Performs other job-related duties as may be assigned

• Provide input to the Technology Roadmap when requested - assisting with research and design of new technology solutions where applicable

• Proactively involve P1/P2 incident calls

• Uphold for SLA compliance, incident management Root cause analysis

MUST HAVE advanced experience and knowledge of

• Proficient in RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS OS administration

• Ensuring availability and performance of the Linux system that supports the Business applications

• Installation, configuration, and upgradation of Linux systems

• Perform capacity planning, ensure high resiliency and optimal performance involving the associated hardware resources allocated to the operating system

• Proficient in BigFix patching tool administration

• Automate BAU tasks via shell scripting or tools, such as Ansible/BigFix

• Maintain our Linux infrastructure standard operating environment, including configurations and security management

• Experience with Shell/Perl/python scripting and other programming languages

• Enterprise Intel x86 based hardware (eg Dell Servers), Cisco UCS

• Experience with backup solutions (Commvault is preferred)

• Networking skills - Knowledge and experience with DNS and TCP/IP

• Strong problem-solving skills across the different Infrastructure layers

• Able to work in team as well as an individual contributor with minimal supervision

• Effective communication (both verbally on email) with global cross domain teams

Knowledge of the core hardware and software components that comprise large global systems and networks with expertise in some of the following areas

• Configuration, administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Storage systems (EMC/ Netapp/ Dell PVs etc.) and SAN switches (Brocade, Cisco)

• Provisioning storage to AIX, UNIX, Windows and ESXi servers

• Virtual infra administration - Build and administer ESXi cluster, VSAN and vCenters

• LAN/WAN, network and systems hardware and software

• DNS platforms

• Monitoring and system management tools

• Current and emerging operating systems, network environments and protocols

• Data security, including Server Hardening

• Project design and project tracking

Qualification

• Degree holder with minimum 10+ years of experience