Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Solaris) Contract role - 6-month contract

My client, a financial services organisation based in Coventry, are looking to hire a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on an initial 6-month contract. Please note this role has been deemed inside IR35 and carries a paid to Umbrella Rate of £475 per day. Please note there is a preference for candidates who can work 2 days onsite a week.

For this role, the end client is looking for someone who can (please note this role is not exhaustive):

• Provide authoritative and specialist Solaris expertise.
• Work with Architecture and other peer groups to produced detailed technical designs to meet project objectives.
• Lead and or contribute to Unix infrastructure builds; configuration, implementation and warranty support
• Ensure all solutions consider security, capacity planning, contingency and support in line with current published policies.
• Assist in the production and maintenance of technical documentation
• To be responsible for supporting the effective delivery and transition of solutions into Service Operations.

Skill set wise; I am looking for candidates with knowledge of:

• Excellent Solaris 11 - Primary skill set
• Excellent RHEL 7.x/8.x
• Storage Technologies such as ZFS, LVM, Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager
• Scripting skills predominantly Korn Shell, Python and Pearl.
• Design and project implementation experience

The following Skills are desirable:

• Configuration/Administration of Oracle (Sun) Hardware - M Series, T Series Servers, LDOMs
• Familiarity with PCI and non-PCI environment
• Appreciation of Oracle Databases and Applications (Oracle E-business, Oracle Forms, Oracle Internet Directory)
• Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Apache/Tomcat Web services
• Backup software (Commvault Simpana,)
• SAN technology (IBM A9000) FC-HBA & NFS connectivity and utilities.
• AWS & DevOps awareness and or experience

If this sounds like the role for you then please apply immediately with an up to date CV!