Title:  Senior Solaris/Red Hat Linux System Support Specialist - Hybrid

Requisition ID: 207792

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Looking for a hybrid role? We have the job for you! Our employees in hybrid roles can alternate between work from home & onsite in the office with the details to be determined, based on business needs.

The team:

Scotiabank’s Global Technology Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) Operations - Infrastructure Support’s L2 UNIX team is responsible for providing infrastructure support on servers running Solaris / Red Hat Linux operating systems for various mission critical business applications.

The role:

As part of our team, you will provide systems level support for over 3,000 mission critical application production and non-production servers. Your responsibilities include technical trouble shooting and providing solutions to complex issues, plus work on capacity planning and providing recommendations. This role will include project work and interacting with multiple team members. You will participate in semi-annual Disaster Recovery (DR) fail over testing on regular basis as outlined in the banks policies and procedures, to ensure DR functionality. And, when required, update the policies and procedures as required.

There is occasional overtime for after hours or weekend work. Also, rotational 24x7 on-call support.

Is this role right for you?

• You thrive on multi-tasking and prioritizing work to meet deadlines in a large complex environment.
• You embrace 2nd level UNIX support on production issues, participating in Incident Management / Problem Management / Change Management; and working on security vulnerabilities as part of the audit and compliance requirements.
• You are eager to work on Solaris, Linux operating systems running on Oracle Sparc and x86 HW products, virtual hosts including LDoms, VMware and Cloud.
• You also want to work with Veritas Clustering/Storage Foundation, RedHat clustering, Solaris ZFS (Zettabyte File System) and EMC/Hitachi SAN storage products.
• You are keen to monitor the environment and identify any issues which could be of a risk and then rectify.
• You enjoy working on automation by using Ansible for implementing changes, patching, fixing security vulnerabilities and writing scripts for system monitoring.
• You take pride in aiding with project management functions during all stages of requirements rollout including assessment, planning, initiation, implementation, and management.
• You like the challenge to assist in the identification, development and maintenance of policies and procedures that are relevant to the proper operational functions of the Unix infrastructure.
• As part of your “DNA”, you are detail-oriented, proactive, have an eagerness to learn and thrive on challenges.
• You are willing to mentor and coach more junior members of the team sharing your knowledge to grow the team through the individuals.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• You can demonstrate excellent communication (verbal/written) skills.
• You have at least 10+ years of hands-on technical working experience with the system administration, recovery, configuration & troubleshooting of Solaris (versions 10/11) and Red Hat Linux (versions 7/8) Operating Systems.
• You have at least 10+ years of hands-on technical working experience in troubleshooting with the Oracle Sparc and x86 hardware products, and where necessary know when to engage the vendor.
• You have at least 10+ years of hands-on technical working experience with the configuration, administration, builds and troubleshooting of Veritas/Symantec Storage Foundation (VSF) & Veritas/Symantec Cluster Services.
• You have at least 10+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Network Information Service (NIS), Network File System (NFS), Solaris Zones & Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms).
• You can demonstrate a very good technical working knowledge on SAN / NAS storage file systems and Virtualization platforms/technologies.
• You possess very good scripting capabilities (e.g., shell, perl) to complete day to day UNIX tasks; plus the use of Ansible to automate.
• You have good problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• You can work well under pressure with time constraints and can prioritize competing priorities appropriately.
• You have completed a post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering or in a related field of study.

What's in it for you?

• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success! We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning.
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership), generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.

• As a part of our Hybrid Work Model, when required to be onsite, our primary office in Scarborough is:
  • Renovated with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology.
  • Furnished with an onsite employee cafeteria that serves hot & cold meals (breakfast & lunch), salads, soups, sandwiches, snacks & hot/cold drinks.  Weather permitting, on certain days of the week, there’s an outdoor BBQ patio.  There’s also an onsite employee café that serves hot/cold meals (breakfast & lunch), personal sized pizzas, sandwiches, soups, snacks & hot/cold drinks.  This café also has a 24 hour “grab & go” for snacks & beverages.
  • Our lounges have TV’s, fridges, microwaves, complimentary hot beverage stations & water dispensers.
  • Minutes from the 401 & DVP. Free onsite & offsite employee parking. Charging stations for electric vehicles onsite.
  • Accessible by TTC bus from Eglinton subway station on Line 1 or from Warden subway station on Line 2 or from Kennedy station on Lines 2/3.  When it begins to operate, the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit’s Birchmount stop is steps away.
  • Kennedy GO Station on the Stouffville line & Scarborough GO Station on the Lakeshore East line, with connecting TTC buses, can get you to this worksite.

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Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Scarborough 

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