Senior UNIX Administrator

Mark Williams

Dubai, UAE

Ref: LP483-181

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Provide technical support on UNIX environment.
- Install and configure UNIX servers.
- Perform Security hardening of servers as per Group security standards
- Coordinate with hardware/software vendor to resolve incidents and problems
- Document and log all changes to system software and configurations
- Provide scripting and programming support to all major projects within IT department
- Proactively manage the banks UNIX environment
- Participate in integration and acceptance testing
- Contribute to implementation and subsequent support of IT systems
- Assure required level of security for all servers and the information stored there
- Proactively monitor and tune the servers for optimum performance
- Provide help to application teams to develop and test disaster recovery plan, and assuring its integrations with Banks disaster recovery plan
- Assist with updating all software on a regular basis including applications such as PATROL, Netbackup and Oracle
- Perform necessary fixes to hardware and software in a timely manner
- Research new technologies and present recommendations on major hardware and software purchases
- Manage small teams of Administrators.
- Assist Project Leader in estimating and project control.
- Liaise with user departments and external suppliers as necessary.
- Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements.
- Manage EMC environment.
- Participate in integration and acceptance testing.
- Contribute to the estimating of IT projects.

Requirements

- IT based degree, university degree, or equivalent work experience required
- Experience - 6 to 7 years
- Developed, hands on experience of implementing and supporting AIX, Solaris, Linux flavors of Unix
- Must have good hands-on experience of supporting and implementing Database environments.
- Action Orientation, Analytical Thinking, Information Seeking, Customer Service Orientation, Team Work, Concern for Quality.

About the Company

Mark Williams is a Dubai recruitment company with a wealth of Search & Selection experience. Mark Williams International is a subsidiary of the Williams Group UK and in December 2009 set up the Middle East business.

Mark Williams is a fully licensed recruitment firm currently focused on fulfilling clients needs in; Emiratisation, Financial Services and Information Technology related position within the United Arab Emirates. The initial focus was looking at Emiratisation into the Financial Services sector across all seven Emirates. With an increased demand for over the subsequent years for Emiratisation we have broadened our scope to place UAE Nationals into Industry & Government with dedicated teams for Emiratisation into Financial Services and Industry. Given our focus is primarily on the local market it gives us a depth of understanding & knowledge that enables us deliver our business partners an unrivaled service in terms of; speed and most importantly, quality.

Founding the Middle East business in adverse market conditions has enabled us to capture market-share and establish ourselves as a house hold name within our specialisms. Within two years we had outgrown our initial office and moved to the prestigious Business Central Towers in Media City. Mark Williams, at the end of 2014 has completed its third upscaling of operations to Bay Square, Business Bay. This was a strategic move to enable continued business growth by servicing clients and candidates with improved infrastructure, access and parking. Mark Williams provides candidates and clients private meeting rooms, testing facilities and board room access to facilitate screening and interviews. With our current capacity and growth ambitions Mark Williams is now one of the fastest growing Recruitment agencies in the region.

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