Unix Engineer

Project overview

Context:

The Compute & Cloud Experience Division is the single point of entry for infrastructures supporting applications and their lifecycles.

To effectively deliver products to users, the Division relies on a product catalog designed to cover the vast majority of needs (platforms).

The Large Systems Hardware team consists of 22 employees who share engineering activities and N3+ support for our Service Center.

Within the target scope, IBM Power, the team is responsible for managing about twenty IBM Power High End chassis, over 1300 AIX and Linux LPARs (and 2600 in target), and about forty VIOs (44 in target), all for the benefit of numerous Group entities.

We are looking for a UNIX and Linux System Engineer for this position, focusing on Power environments. Storage skills would be a plus.

Missions:

The Expert Unix Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, evolution, and maintenance of the system and infrastructural components of the IBM Power platform (AIX) within the Group. They contribute to defining Unix infrastructures and producing reliable, secure, and high-performing platforms.

In this capacity, they are notably responsible for:

• Analyzing needs, defining, designing, and integrating system components (chassis, HMC, LPAR, VIOS, etc.)
• Deploying, configuring, and maintaining Unix environments in operational condition
• Managing version upgrades, obsolescence, and technical and functional evolutions
• Optimizing infrastructures and carrying out reliability operations
• Managing Capacity Planning for the scope
• Implementing and maintaining associated security policies
• Detecting, addressing, and monitoring alerts or behavioral anomalies, participating in escalation and crisis management procedures
• Providing Level 3 technical support for their scope

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: 78280 Guyancourt, France, FR
• Rate: 69-88 EUR/h
• Languages: French